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Middlesbrough Vs Brighton & Hove Albion *****Official Match Thread*****

















Sam Ovett

The New Manager Bus
We were denied promotion by disgraceful refereeing. Mike Dean and his cronies have cost us £200 million. Their goal was offside, and Stephens got the ball. Now we're down one of our best players for all 3 play off games if we were able to get to the final (we won't). This summer will see all our best players leave and the gap between Prem-Champ widens. This was our best chance but it just won't happen now. Please bounce this when we win play offs
 


TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
We were denied promotion by disgraceful refereeing. Mike Dean and his cronies have cost us £200 million. Their goal was offside, and Stephens got the ball. Now we're down one of our best players for all 3 play off games if we were able to get to the final (we won't). This summer will see all our best players leave and the gap between Prem-Champ widens. This was our best chance but it just won't happen now. Please bounce this when we win play offs

You can bet on it, bud :thumbsup:
 


Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
34,009
East Wales
We were denied promotion by disgraceful refereeing. Mike Dean and his cronies have cost us £200 million. Their goal was offside, and Stephens got the ball. Now we're down one of our best players for all 3 play off games if we were able to get to the final (we won't). This summer will see all our best players leave and the gap between Prem-Champ widens. This was our best chance but it just won't happen now. Please bounce this when we win play offs
Brilliant support.

:nono:
 




Djmiles

Barndoor Holroyd
Dec 1, 2005
12,064
Kitchener, Canada
We were denied promotion by disgraceful refereeing. Mike Dean and his cronies have cost us £200 million. Their goal was offside, and Stephens got the ball. Now we're down one of our best players for all 3 play off games if we were able to get to the final (we won't). This summer will see all our best players leave and the gap between Prem-Champ widens. This was our best chance but it just won't happen now. Please bounce this when we win play offs

But it wasn't offside?
 


Dick Head

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Jan 3, 2010
13,890
Quaxxann
Absolutely f@@king hilarious that you f@@ked it up drag queens. It couldn't happen to a better bunch of c@nts. Goal difference makes it even funnier. Dizzy heights for you lads made your mouth too loud. What a day! Champions!! And you fu@ked it up!! Go f&ck yourselves.

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BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
18,201
We were denied promotion by disgraceful refereeing. Mike Dean and his cronies have cost us £200 million. Their goal was offside, and Stephens got the ball. Now we're down one of our best players for all 3 play off games if we were able to get to the final (we won't). This summer will see all our best players leave and the gap between Prem-Champ widens. This was our best chance but it just won't happen now. Please bounce this when we win play offs

Chin up mate, we are hard to beat and we have a fantastic chance in the play offs.
 






Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
He will appeal.

No chance of it being rescinded, ref has to agree doesn't he? He has already let a Boro player change his mind, he won't change it again. Disgraceful refereeing in such a massive game. I suggest we might have gone on to win with 11
 


Ray Dante

New member
May 2, 2016
13
Brighton Actually
O c'mon! Yes, Dean was biased through the whole match and had a bad day generally, but Stephens' red card was actually fully deserved. Going studs up, hips high, hitting the man - that's a straight red in any league, end of story. Stephens was simply stupid. Overall, Hughton got this game plan wrong from the beginning. Players got nervous, made a lot of mistakes, that made them even more nervous, a f***ing avalanche. In the half time he got them back on track mentally, and reorganized the defence. Attack, however, remained as crappy as in the first half.

It was a great comeback to the match until Stephens got himself sent off, we have a good team, they are strong mentally (remember all those one-goal wins in the aumumn), but they simply didn't deserve a win today. They do deserve to win the play-offs though ...
 








sussex_guy2k2

Well-known member
Jun 6, 2014
4,080
They had a man offside in the middle. May have been Stuani. Whether he was 'in play' at the time is debatable.

If you're in the middle of the box, and there's only one other pass between the initial pass and you scoring, that has to be a) interfering with play, and b) not a separate phase of play.

As for the Stephens decision, it was a disgrace. The reason Ramirez is injured is because he's late to the ball. Not every injury is the result of a foul or a bookable offence. Mike Dean was an utter disgrace today, not just getting the two biggest calls wrong, but showing bias throughout the game - he lacked any form of consistency. There has to come a stage where questions are asked as to whether referees are actively making decisions to not get us promoted, as there's too many totted up over this season now.
 






HitchinSeagull

Active member
Aug 9, 2012
414
Wait ....wouldn't going up via the play off be a better revenue stream ....Extra game revenue + TV Revenue * 2 games + the final = £££££
Traditionally all the winners takings are given to the losing finalist but I like the positive spin!
 




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