nikica jelavic

I thought it was absolutely ridiculous when he got booked for the ball hitting his hand when he couldn't do anything about it. He closed down the keeper and the ball happened to strike his hand. The refereeing wasn't great yesterday and that was just one of some stupid decisions.

 

I thought he got booked for raising his foot at the goalkeeper which is why we got a free kick shortly afterwards for a similar challenge. Neither in my opinion was a foul.

 

I thought he was too far away for it to be a high foot

 

Same referee who was blasted by Allardyce and the MOTD panel/ Sunday newspapers and so on for giving a 'soft' penalty for City v West Ham this season. He seemed to want to redeem that decision yesterday.

 

Farcical decision.

Amusing to see him overrule the linesman in the first half for that throw in when he was much further away.

 

Mr Friend was mostly useless.

 

He was dire. Probably the worst ref we've had this season, Michael Oliver was openly biased in Manchester Uniteds favour, but Mr. Friend was just completely ****ing clueless all game for both sides.

 

It was definitely the correct decision. I was in the west stand and could see it hit Elmo's foot before it went out.

 

If it's the one I'm thinking of it was on the east side.

Also Davies penalised giving away a free kick in very dangerous area just outside the box for an absolutely spot on perfect tackle, it wasn't even a hard one.

Gouffran controlling the ball with his arm and then bombing down the wing to set up a dangerous attack. Seconds later Huddlestone controlling the ball with his forearm before pinging a long pass down the channel to set up a dangerous counter, both right in front of the ref.

The list goes on, loads of mindless decisions and the same things going punished, then unpunished, then punished again.

 

My point was, I was further away from the ref and could see it clearly.

There were some very strange decisions yesterday.

 

It was second half and Elmo was nowhere near it, so it's a different time we're on about.

 

The one we're talking about was in the first half.

 

Linesman no further than about 3 yards away.

 

It doesn't matter how close he was, he still made the wrong decision.

 

The closer he was, the more likely he should be to get it right.

Therefore it does matter.

 

He got it wrong.

 

I know.

Everyone else knows.

Your point?

 

Jelavic was booked for handball. His hands were over his head, so deemed as an unnatural movement.

Loads of bollocks, I know, but right by the rules of the game.

Strange game yesterday, but also strangely enjoyable, what with one thing and another.

 

Oh? Moaning about the ref? How unusual.