LR seems to particularly lose his cool around the situation with Delap being fouled a lot. He's had these rants about ref's not understanding the way we play and protecting our players, but it stopped for a while, and he stayed out of trouble for a while, when Delap was injured. Now he's back it's immediately an issue again. I do get it, he seems to get smashed on the halfway line an awful lot, perhaps because defenders know that once he turns it's over for them.
I’ve just watched it back a couple of times, it bobbles off his foot into the air at that point making it appear just a hair out but given the angle the camera is at it would almost certainly still be over the line. Just for you, managed to drop a pause on the penalty right at the point of contact, ball is on the line and Delap is outside the box. Screenshot too big to upload, but quite easy to do on YouTube as it allows you to rapidly pause/unpause to see for yourself.
As an ex referee myself and have watched 1000s of games in my time, last nights referee performance was genuinely one of the worst I have ever seen live. It was atrociously bad in pretty much every department.
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**** happens mate. My old man always maintained City should have had a penalty at Chelsea in a cup tie back in the early 60s which was before my time following the club. Apparently one of their players handled the ball to stop a certain goal and it cost us a semi final place by all accounts. When Saturday comes and all that. UTT.
He’s a massive wind up merchant, always has been since his youth days, so probably earns it. Definitely not protected enough though
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Bad decisions happen. Four in one passage of play in injury time on injury time which results in a 3 point swing is more unique. As I stated numerous times, nothing to do with why we don’t reach the play offs, but just pointing out the irony it was Norwich and the point swing happens to be the difference between the two clubs currently.
maybe yesterdays ref performance was a conspiracy for people to say.. aha see var is the future.. think about it
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And the story goes....the referee that day was Jack Taylor?, also a World Cup referee and he admitted in later years to a City player, forget who, that he should have given the penalty to City......but no-one appealled loud enough, or something. It was a handball incident on the Chelsea goal line. The Hull Daily Mail had a photograph of the incident but only showed the ball heading towards the hand of a chelsea player stood a foot or so off the goal line.
