Stoke vs Saints Match Thread

Hmmmm

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When the opposition keeper has the look of someone who realises he is about to be sent off and instead gets a goal kick, you know something has gone awry.

If the ref thinks there is no contact then it’s a dive, and he should be booked.

That was a clusterfuck of a non-decision.

Michael Oliver had a much tougher game to ref last night and he got everything right.

The real frustration will be if Mane’s card is upheld - that will mean that the authorities actual support an appalling quality of refereeing.

Why do rugby referees get more respect?

Because they clearly work at their craft, look like they know what they are doing most of the time, display consistency, and they have the support of TV if needed.

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Originally posted by @Dubai_Phil

Hmmmm

Shame the season starts in August!

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Originally posted by @Rallyboy

When the opposition keeper has the look of someone who realises he is about to be sent off and instead gets a goal kick, you know something has gone awry.

If the ref thinks there is no contact then it’s a dive, and he should be booked.

That was a clusterfuck of a non-decision.

Michael Oliver had a much tougher game to ref last night and he got everything right.

The real frustration will be if Mane’s card is upheld - that will mean that the authorities actual support an appalling quality of refereeing.

Why do rugby referees get more respect?

Because they clearly work at their craft, look like they know what they are doing most of the time, display consistency, and they have the support of TV if needed.

Well this is just bollocks I’ve already written on Twitter, but if there was ever a case for singing “you’re getting sacked in the morning” to a referee, that was it. He was very lucky that team B were on MotD last night. I think he might have gotten a proper roasting from the regular pundits, even it was just Alan Shearer’s forehead getting redder.

I’ll forgive him the sending off as from where I was stood it looked like an elbow as most around me concured. However, the penalty, fuck me, how can he ref and linesman get that so wrong.

The best part was a number of the younger stewards are students of mine and all SCFC fans so I made a point of saying hello. Bragging rights this coming week will be sweet.

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Originally posted by @pap

Just watched Match of the Day. First off, that programme has less squad depth than us during Adkins’ first Prem season. It nosedives in quality if Lineker and pals are not there. Stilted autocue reading from the host, crappy commentary from the boys Jenas and Sinclair, almost to the point where I reckon that anyone going on TV to talk about football needs to go to metaphor school before they’re allowed to speak.

Dan Walker is a Gem, you cretin. I won’t hear a word against him!

Good win tho! Tks Pelle, tks koemans.

Yeah, strikers like nothing better than other strikers getting the goals!

It’s all about the team…to an extent.

I didn’t even know who he was, so I couldn’t very well say a word against him.

Besides, even if I was calling him out by name, you didn’t hear it. This is very much like the legal precedent established by Conrad Knight’s “A Gent in LA”.

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So I couldn’t call you that…?

No, but you could fax me.

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If anyone wants to know what Bear and I are yammering about, check out 6m 10s onwards (I will fix YouTube timestamps, dammit).

One of the finest audio gags I have ever heard.

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New rule introduced by me -

If a red card is overturned on appeal the referee has to serve the suspension.

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gr8 idea RB. I also think Mane should be allowed to elbow him in the head, so he knows what it looks like RIP

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I did pull back from

The next time the ref officiates the player’s club, the player gets a free two-footed tackle on said ref, an action he can take at any point during the game, whether the ball is live or not.

I love having the bragging rights at work. :cool:

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Weren’t they sewn up ages ago with your mastery of electricity?

These are people that exclaim “He boils water without fire!” when you make a cuppa, FFS.

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I’ve stopped them pointing and calling out in alarm at the big metal bird in the sky. #progress.

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Being 4th official is like having a hospitality invite but without the free bar.

You get to stand about a bit, chat with the managers and explain to the proper ref how you didn’t see anything either.

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Mane’s red card appeal has been upheld which has to be good news for us - and bad news for the sorry conveyor belt of appalling refs we have had to endure of late.

It’s official, you don’t know what you’re doing!