Just came home and saw the highlights. Can't believe the ref gave Leicester a pen for a shoulder barge. Total bottle job after awarding West Ham a rightful pen after repeated Leicester fouling. What is it with every ref not having the balls to give decisions as they see them instead of buckling under pressure?
Bizarrely, Henry Winter is claiming its top 3 worst refereeing performances he's ever seen. As far as I can tell and judging from majority opinion on Twitter etc, which you'd expect to be pro-Leicester: Sending off - Correct - clear Vardy dive West Ham pen - Correct - Morgan guilty of bear hugging Leicester pen - Incorrect - Very little contact, perhaps given to make amends for earlier penalty shout on Huth
The current set up means the refs have far too much say in the result of a game. Too many leeway decisions available. The corner free for all is a prime example. It has become more like Rugby Football than Association Football. Either allow wrestling for corners or don't and if not book every player who wrestles until it stops. The present situation means a ref can decide the outcome of a game. I prefer players to decide the outcome, if we are going to allow refs to do it then each club needs to buy their own ref for all home games. If we are going to have corruption let's have it.
Still don't understand how Leicester conceded two. Vardy is their opposition penalty box defender, not a CM/DM or back four. So his departure should not have made that much of a difference.
No out ball. Everything that they cleared just came straight back at them. Vardy would've forced mistakes from defenders and won some set-pieces, at the very least.
Not sure about this., I'm not really a motor bike man., but I can still remember Triumph Norton and Bonneville and a few others., only because of mates.
But they don't clear to Vardy. Every long ball to him is intentional as part of their most attackingest side in the PL play.
You hope they win the PL, because having the most "efficient" attack is small comfort if you lose the title to an inefficient attacking team that scores more goals (of course not that the latter is at all possible) .
Hmm, looking at that from one angle there. -Vardy's first - Never a yellow card in a millions years. -The Reid penalty. Why do you have to be warned? If he's going to dish out penalties for the slightest of touches then where were the penalties from the other times it happened? Reid isn't stupid. He saw the referee talkign to Morgan and Huth and knew that he'd win a penalty if he went down. The jump he does makes it as bad as Vardy's dive for me. -Huth a victim of assault. -Schlupp's pen was as soft as they come. The referee was atrocious, for both sides.
