Us getting dodgy decisions is like the sky being blue at this point
The Prem has a vendetta against us and they are not hiding it
Devolucion11 on
The refs in this league simply aren’t capable of being consistent. O’Brien a few weeks ago, ruled out. Bournemouth? Goal. You either make an attempt to play the ball or you don’t, and Unal did.
Regantowers on
I said this at the time, i cant believe more wasn’t made of it.
Erdrick05 on
There’s obviously a bias from us as Evertonians and I don’t really have much investment with other clubs but there just seems to be way more glaring inconsistencies with decisions that go against us than anyone else at the moment. The hair pulling, offside, cards for quick free kicks, cards for clapping refs. It’s not even a surprise anymore and it’s just becoming the norm.
Chris80L1 on
We getting dodgy decisions, but Jesus Christ the performances are so bad at home it shouldn’t prey to hide how awful and inept we look.
To me, that’s more of an issue
unifi- on
whilst this goal was blatantly offside – you can have common sense or consistency but you can’t have both.
this has the unfortunate result of partisan fans being upset “it’s common sense! handball in the box is not always handball” or “we want consistency, last week the ‘same’ thing happened and was ruled the other way!”
it happily gives refs a way to squirm out of criticism “wasn’t enough contact” etc.
bottom line is the quality of refereeing is truly abysmal in this league, and it’s become an old-boys club with an omertà around meaningfully challenging decision making.
until and unless clubs and the league invest significant money into referee pathways from the grassroots up, it will not change.
is there a bias against us as a club? on the balance of it, id say yes. but there’s a bias against any side who isn’t a media darling. some of the decisions against us have been truly
baffling over the years.
DCL scoring from a header and it being ruled out because he landed on Lewis Dunk has to be up there with the most absurd i’ve ever seen.
Erdrick05 on
Well said mate. There’s been that many now I’m forgetting them now!
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Us getting dodgy decisions is like the sky being blue at this point
The Prem has a vendetta against us and they are not hiding it
The refs in this league simply aren’t capable of being consistent. O’Brien a few weeks ago, ruled out. Bournemouth? Goal. You either make an attempt to play the ball or you don’t, and Unal did.
I said this at the time, i cant believe more wasn’t made of it.
There’s obviously a bias from us as Evertonians and I don’t really have much investment with other clubs but there just seems to be way more glaring inconsistencies with decisions that go against us than anyone else at the moment. The hair pulling, offside, cards for quick free kicks, cards for clapping refs. It’s not even a surprise anymore and it’s just becoming the norm.
We getting dodgy decisions, but Jesus Christ the performances are so bad at home it shouldn’t prey to hide how awful and inept we look.
To me, that’s more of an issue
whilst this goal was blatantly offside – you can have common sense or consistency but you can’t have both.
this has the unfortunate result of partisan fans being upset “it’s common sense! handball in the box is not always handball” or “we want consistency, last week the ‘same’ thing happened and was ruled the other way!”
it happily gives refs a way to squirm out of criticism “wasn’t enough contact” etc.
bottom line is the quality of refereeing is truly abysmal in this league, and it’s become an old-boys club with an omertà around meaningfully challenging decision making.
until and unless clubs and the league invest significant money into referee pathways from the grassroots up, it will not change.
is there a bias against us as a club? on the balance of it, id say yes. but there’s a bias against any side who isn’t a media darling. some of the decisions against us have been truly
baffling over the years.
DCL scoring from a header and it being ruled out because he landed on Lewis Dunk has to be up there with the most absurd i’ve ever seen.
Well said mate. There’s been that many now I’m forgetting them now!