[Albion] Kevin Friend ref on Saturday

[BensGrandad]

And some people moaned about having Michael Oliver as ref !!!!

 

[blue-shifted]

That was far and away the worst, one sided, big team bias, disgusting display by a ref I have ever witnessed.
It still pisses me off!

Gross gets his shirt pulled.....nothing
same passage of play....Salah gets his shirt pulled...Free kick
over and over again! same fouls, same outcome.

Then at 0-1 he decided that he'd use up injury time to explain in detail to the Liverpool players why he wasn't going to book them.

he was never going to let Liverpool not win.

Yep,the Scousers friend. Some of the Liverpool players laughed their way off the pitch

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

And some people moaned about having Michael Oliver as ref !!!!

Best ref in the PL for me.....


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[Cowfold Seagull]

Disagree favours the top sides

Wellmthat seems to be a tendency with many referees, but l wouldn't call that corrupt. I'm sure no money changes hands.

 

[Justice]

Best ref in the PL for me.....


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Just can’t get a hand ball decision right

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

But he doesn't do it for personal gain

It's more out of personal weakness

Exactly.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Best ref in the PL for me.....


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A Chris Kavanagh man myself. We don't seem to have seen too much of him so far this season though.

 

[macbeth]

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Between him and Chris Kavanagh imo

 

[Albion my Albion]

Gosh Kevin wont know which team to give preferential treatment ..given neither are the big six

He could give each team a red card.

 

[Weststander]

He’s simply shit.

During every Kevin Friend match he’s a controversial talking point, often the centre of attention, I wonder if he quite likes that?

With Martin Atkinson, a career full of blunders costing clubs.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He’s simply shit.

During every Kevin Friend match he’s a controversial talking point, often the centre of attention, I wonder if he quite likes that?

With Martin Atkinson, a career full of blunders costing clubs.

I'd include Lee Mason in that list too.

 

[Justice]

I would love to see European refs in the PL, they stamp down with authority early doors not scared to go make decisions against the top sides. There is a reason why none of our refs went to the World Cup.

 

[LamieRobertson]

And some people moaned about having Michael Oliver as ref !!!!

Don’t remember that

 

[Super Steve Earle]

This thread is exactly the reason I like VAR and believe it helps balance games back a bit more in our favour.

 

[Steve in Japan]

I'd include Lee Mason in that list too.

Poorest crop of refs I can remember, exacerbated by the fact that with VAR, you get 2 bellends for the price of one.

 

[West Upper Seagull]

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Andre Marriner gets my vote.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Poorest crop of refs I can remember, exacerbated by the fact that with VAR, you get 2 bellends for the price of one.

But hopefully the one off pitch at Stockley Park is our bellend - the one who ensures the decisions are correct, not biased. Remember the West Ham bellend was happy to chalk off Murray's goal till Stockley Park got involved.

 

[Weststander]

Ex ref Peter Walton and Bath Uni assessed all key potential errors by officials for 2017/18 (disallowed goals that should have stood or vice versa, and sending offs wrongly given or wrongly not given), giving a corrective table on the right. We would’ve finished 9th in a perfect world. Costing the club many £m. There’s no evidence that the top 6 all gained overall, it’s a mixed bag.



The same study for 2018/19 concluded that we would’ve easily finished in the bottom 3, but I can’t find a hypothetical final points table.

It will interesting to see if VAR does significantly reduce the impact of errors per club over a season.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

The actual table and the luck index are't too dissimilar, which proves you make your own luck. The teams down the bottom were there for a reason as were the teams at the top