[Albion] match officials for Palace

[Super Steve Earle]

You weren’t at the Liverpool game at the Amex last season? Probably the most biased reffing I have ever seen.

90% of the 50/50s were free kicks to Liverpool and Salah’s penalty to win the game was an outrageous decision.

Maybe I’m too biased, draw your own conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGNQIqkevE

Shame we didn't have VAR for that Salah' penalty'!!

 

[darters74]

Kevin Friend is the worst ref in the Premier League. I'm glad he's not on the pitch on Saturday. To$$er!

 

[Icy Gull]

This. I don't get it either. He refereed us a lot in the championship too and we usually did well.

Was that when we were one of the top clubs in the division...hmmm

 

[Bold Seagull]

You weren’t at the Liverpool game at the Amex last season? Probably the most biased reffing I have ever seen.

90% of the 50/50s were free kicks to Liverpool and Salah’s penalty to win the game was an outrageous decision.

Maybe I’m too biased, draw your own conclusion

I have some sympathy with the officials when some of the best players are also the best at deception. Salah, Hazard, Zaha, they get fouled a lot because of their skills, but they also develop the art of seducing officials into giving them decisions. The better the team, the more players they seem to have to be able to exploit that. They also have the ball more, so tends to feel like they're getting more decisions.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

You weren’t at the Liverpool game at the Amex last season? Probably the most biased reffing I have ever seen.

90% of the 50/50s were free kicks to Liverpool and Salah’s penalty to win the game was an outrageous decision.

Maybe I’m too biased, draw your own conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGNQIqkevE

Yes I was, actually think that is a pen ...

 

[Icy Gull]

Yes I was, actually think that is a pen ...

I know it was contentious which is why I posted it, I think the way the rest of the game went clouded my opinion possibly. Although I still think Salah threw himself backwards with such force that it couldn’t possibly have been from the hand on the shoulder. I don’t see the hard tug that would have caused that.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

I know it was contentious which is why I posted it, I think the way the rest of the game went clouded my opinion possibly. Although I still think Salah threw himself backwards with such force that it couldn’t possibly have been from the hand on the shoulder. I don’t see the hard tug that would have caused that.

Fair enough. It that was an Albion player, we would all be saying it's stonewall ...

 

[Icy Gull]

Fair enough. It that was an Albion player, we would all be saying it's stonewall ...

We see one of those every game though don’t we?

We don’t often get them awarded though!

 

[Bozza]

I have some sympathy with the officials when some of the best players are also the best at deception. Salah, Hazard, Zaha, they get fouled a lot because of their skills, but they also develop the art of seducing officials into giving them decisions. The better the team, the more players they seem to have to be able to exploit that. They also have the ball more, so tends to feel like they're getting more decisions.

Agreed.

Watching the highlights of the United v Watford game at the weekend, I was convinced that Fernandes went down over Foster instead of Foster bringing him down, but I'm not surprised it was given.

25 seconds in the below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUv5Yrq6T2A

 

[BluesRockDJ]

Other than at Boro, we seem to have done well under The Complete And Utter Shyster since.

Boro ? How far do you want to go back ?

 

[Weststander]

Agreed.

Watching the highlights of the United v Watford game at the weekend, I was convinced that Fernandes went down over Foster instead of Foster bringing him down, but I'm not surprised it was given.

25 seconds in the below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUv5Yrq6T2A

That was 5live’s conclusion on the day, Fernandes was deliberately falling before any meeting of bodies. He cheated. Incredible, well not really, that the VAR official didn’t have the balls to say no pen and a yellow to the cheat.

 

[theboybilly]

Massey-ellis. Always disallows something of ours. Thank God for VAR.

I can't recall one controversial decision by Massey -Ellis. She always seems to run the line towards the North in front of the East Stand and has always been largely anonymous (as she should be) Very happy to have her running the line

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

I can't recall one controversial decision by Massey -Ellis. She always seems to run the line towards the North in front of the East Stand and has always been largely anonymous (as she should be) Very happy to have her running the line

Disallowed a goal for us at Millwall last season which wasn’t offside


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[BRIGHT ON Q]

I can't recall one controversial decision by Massey -Ellis. She always seems to run the line towards the North in front of the East Stand and has always been largely anonymous (as she should be) Very happy to have her running the line

How about flagging locadia offside at Millwall when he headed in to win us the game when it was way onside?

 

[AZ Gull]

I can't recall one controversial decision by Massey -Ellis. She always seems to run the line towards the North in front of the East Stand and has always been largely anonymous (as she should be) Very happy to have her running the line

The one that springs to mind is this one - GIF Video Jurgen Locadia Wrongly Disallowed Offside goal vs Millwall 2019 | Referee Sian Massey Ellis mistake FA Cup 2019 - however, I can't blame her for getting that wrong, I reckon it is just about impossible to expect a human being to get decisions like that consistently right (when you consider the pace football is played at and the impossibility of simultaneously viewing two different areas of the pitch at once, ie the pass-maker and the recipient of the pass).

I agree with you - from what I have seen of her she is very competent at her job.

 

[AZ Gull]

How about flagging locadia offside at Millwall when he headed in to win us the game when it was way onside?

1) It wasn't Locadia who was flagged offside.
2) You think this represents "way onside"? I'll have some of whatever you are smoking....

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

1) It wasn't Locadia who was flagged offside.
2) You think this represents "way onside"? I'll have some of whatever you are smoking....

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Ok locadias goal then ... go to 14 minutes and watch it.

 

[AZ Gull]

Ok locadias goal then ... go to 14 minutes and watch it.

I showed the still picture in my earlier post - he is onside, but by a matter of inches.

 

[Swansman]

1) It wasn't Locadia who was flagged offside.
2) You think this represents "way onside"? I'll have some of whatever you are smoking....

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Agree, extremely difficult decision. Cant blame her, its 50-50 any assistant ref gets this wrong/right.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Agree, extremely difficult decision. Cant blame her, its 50-50 any assistant ref gets this wrong/right.

I could have blamed her if it cost us a place at Wembley .