In general it annoys me that the ref doesnt book anyone till the 91st minute and then runs up the pitch and books them and costs us another 30 seconds cos he doesnt add the time on
I dont blame Wigan, they played well and did what they could to get a win. The ref on the other hand was appalling. Wigan were getting away with fouls and we only had to go near one of their players and a foul was given. The one on Walcott was a clear foul and as the last man should have been a red card. How anyone could defend the one Derry got against Young and claim that wasnt one is beyond me, but some people are. This season I think Man C are a great example of how games are fixed in this way. They were on top of the league and had 2 or 3 games where soft fouls were given against them but nont for them and Man U get a few soft decisioopns and "miraculously" end up on top of the league again. Now theyve got it in the bag Man C arent getting decisions like this any more and are winning again. anyone who doesnt realise football is fixed is either stupid or blind.
He really wasn't. If you'd won the game his performance wouldn't have been noticeable and fair play to the bloke for not pandering to the big club as is too often the case. Football isn't 'fixed' as you say and the Premier League don't hate Arsene Wenger as others have said. Plenty of referees are bad at their jobs for sure, and big clubs get more decisions as refereers looking to get up the ladder perhaps want to be in the good books of the top clubs, but football isn't fixed.
he could've done better about time wasting. only booked al habsi in the 92nd minute, when he took the same amount of time over a goal kick as he had done all game. that is a lack of consistency and also a lack of balls to book a player for time wasting earlier on in the game.
By the laws of the game every bit of time wasting should be a booking but you have to accept it goes on when you're losing, particularly at home. If you're hanging on 2-1 at home to Chelsea on Saturday I somewhat doubt Szczesny will be doing any different. Every team does it when they're winning and every team complains about as if they would never do such a thing when losing.
. I'm not one to stick up for Spurs by any means but at WHL they have had goals against Wolves and United wrongly chalked off which cost them at least 2 points If you look at Chelsea's games against United and Sunderland in particular it would be idiotic to assume decisions don't go against us as well as for us.
I don't think picking out a few isolated incidences where one team got questionable penalties is proof that a sport is fixed. If anything it's just further proof that referees are desperate to be on the right side of the big clubs, given they're the biggest and most glamourous team, much in the same way the bigger teams get far more questionable decisions in any league.
Recently. Chelsea beat them 5-1 and Arsenal beat them 5-2 So I think he actually meant 'folded and conceded Ten'
