Just wow. Deserves its own thread for being such a good save from their full-back. The linesman, a nice chap I'm sure, seemed very happy all game to let the referee make decisions no matter how much better a view he had.
Right in front of me I just stared with disbelief when the officials decided that this sort of defending was allowable
He might as well have been wearing goalkeeper gloves! The linesman has to take responsibility for that!
It was a stonewaller. You will never see a clearer penalty denied. PS.Thanks for the highlights Wibble.
I had thought today that, with a win, we might start a little run. However, even if we had won, we'd have been up just one place to 11th and 'only' 8 points off the playoffs. Not to be. However we do need those 8 points or so for safety. We need two good home performances against Derby and Brentford.
I was in line with it and it was a definite penalty. The linesman on our side was clueless and never made a decision the whole game. There was another incident when one of their players ran over and shoved Henry over. The ref ran over and booked both players having guessed what happened. The linesman should've said to him that Henry had done nothing wrong but didn't. Another decision the ref Keith Stroud guessed was when Washington broke into their box and was creating a chance when the ball bobbled up and hit his midriff. The linesman didn't flag for handball but Stroud despite being completely unsighted as Washington had his back to him decided to penalise him. Useless the pair of them.
Did we lose because of the officials or because we were crap? Haven't seen any of the game and have no intention of bothering to.
Though we shaded the first half, I think we deserved to lose. The defence had to be re-arranged following Hall's injury and they were all over us for ten minutes or so at the start of the second half which was the only real dominance from either side. Had every penalty decision been correct then we definitely get one and they probably don't get any, but poor officials (and they really were seriously poor in a very easy game to referee) weren't the main reason for defeat.
The problem was that MK came out for the second half with far more intention than they did in the first. They had a chance cleared off the line straight away and scored soon after. Why we didn't expect that I don't know. They couldn't of been any worse. We had gone from controlling the game to being all at sea. Grant Hall going off at half time didn't help but neither did us not being able hit the 'sports' button to move out of cruise control. We had no one on the pitch to take charge and lead the team. As said on here elsewhere on this forum many times before. We lack leaders. When the ref didn't award the handball it was 1-0. Had we scored that we may have gone on to have got the winner, but it felt like we were playing against the ref and their cheating for the whole second half. They would throw themselves to the floor as soon as a Rangers player got anywhere near them and the ref would blow and give them the free kick. This inhibited any rhythm we had and made it difficult for us to get any chance of creating any flowing football. I don't think either of their penalties should have been given either. Konchesky won the ball in his challenge for the first and their player went into the back of Henry without being anywhere near the ball. Anywhere else on the pitch and it would be our free-kick as their player made contact with ours. Henry can't just make himself invisible.
Having watched the replay, all penalty decisions (aside from their two yellow cards for diving) were wrong. We should have had THAT penalty and they should have had none.
Actually, I've seen him perform that trick more than once. Seriously though, thanks for the report. Well done for going
