TOPIC: Ref today

A clown. Forgot to let Grainger back on after he left te field to replace his shirt that was ripped to shreds. They scored shortly after. Then yellow carded Ibehre - but did not give a free kick.

Cayambe wrote:
The incident with Ibehre i thought it was either nothing or a straight red. Very surprised to see him give a yellow.

Refs can't win. I saw Andre Marriner clearly miss a stone wall penalty for Arsenal apart from that he had a good game but because he sent a Newcastle player off and rightly so he was pilloried by the Geordie faithfull. The sooner we have playe backs like in Rugby and cricket the better for me, Or poor old Mr Refs always gonna get his arse smacked by supporters.....

There was numerous throw ins/goal kicks/corners for both sides that were blatantly one way, and he gave them the other. I have said for ages, linesman barely help at this level. See it all the time where the ball goes out for a throw in right in front of the lino, and he looks at the ref to see which way to give it.

Cayambe wrote:
Couldn't of given a free kick for for Ibehre booking, because the incident happened off the field of play and the ball was out!

My view was that whatever (maybe) happened was during the chase for the ball near the line and led to their player going down off the pitch.