11/12 - Premier League Ref I now expect to be consulted on all dubious decisions to determine which is the correct one. Tho' I can guarantee if I was reffing Utd you ****s would all focus on the one decision I got wrong Annoying it doesn't tell you which ones you got wrong, I had to rack my brains for a while but I think I know what it is now.
With a score like that, I would have thought you'd have recognised the mistakes that Clattenburg made against Chelsea ?
I do recognise them, all his mistakes. He failed to book Ivanovic for tackling Evra in a reckless manner He failed to send of Torres for kicking Cleverley in a dangerous manner He wrongly booked Torres for simulation after there was contact He wrongly booked Valencia for simulation after there was contact The Hernandez goal was wrongly allowed, but that was the linesman's fault for failing to watch the players coming out of the goalmouth. Clattenburg couldn't really overrule his linesman on that one. Did I miss any?
Contact doesn't necessarily indicate a lack of a dive. Chucking yourself into someone or sticking your leg out to make contact with an opposition player would still be a dive. I believe that's what Valencia was booked for.
With answers like that you should apply to the PL for a job as a ref. Theyd sign you up in an instant. I got 5/12, Legue One ref
Actually the rules say simulation is attempting to deceive the referee into believing a foul has been committed, when one actually hasn't. Equally, there can be a foul without any contact - if the defending player throws themselves at the attacker in such a way the attacker has to dodge to avoid getting hit / kicked / potentially injured then it's still a foul even if there's no contact. So it's a very flexible definition - was the tiny contact between Evans and Torres enough to warrant Torres throwing himself to the ground like he did? Was Young too willing to fall down when Ivanovic caught his ankles? Did Valencia deliberately run into Mikel when he cut across him? Problem is that everyone's view of those incidents will be different depending on what they view as a foul. In 90% of tackles in the current game, you could argue it either way - there is almost always contact but the attacker almost always chooses to fall over rather than to try and keep their balance. And half the time the attacker anticipates the contact to avoid ending up in a situation like Ramsey and Eduardo did.
WE ARE NOT GETTING IN THIS USELSS ARGUMENT AGAIN. Because eventually you'll just start WUMing and the thread will get locked
