Referee Ollie Yates: Vendetta Against Home Sides?

Seb Stockbridge is even worse 3.1 to 2.5

 

There may be some psychological, subliminal influence going on here. I can understand how it happens.

Overall, there is a huge culture of utter bs built around referees being the pantomime villain. The usual suspects on boards like this up and down the country will decry the standard of refereeing from now until their final post. The problem lies in the expectation that the referee should manage the game like they would in the stands. They just can't deal with the impartiality of a referee making decisions regarding their team. I think the standard of refereeing is adequate but one thing I do now for certain is that the most vocal critics of referees will always remain the most vocal critics and probably always have, regardless of actual standards.

The other issue is the lack of empathy and understanding people have of what being a referee involves. It is nigh on impossible to get even 90% of decisions right. It's easy for us in the stands because if in any doubt, it's a city ball. For the neutral in the middle they either have a player obstructing their view or a crap angle from pitch level which means they have to spend half their time guessing.

Two irrefutable conclusions for me and I'm sure people may disagree but if they do they have to think harder...

1. The standard will never be better than it currently is. Unless the FA pass a ruling that says a referee must give it City's way in any case of doubt, there will as always be a hard core who detest referees.

2. Anyone on this board who was told to ref an efl game would be getting a police escort from the ground within 15 minutes of kick off.

 

As far as I'm aware, he didn't suffer concussion.

I understand he took a whack to an eye that forced partial closure

 

But a yellow card in that instance is for deliberate time wasting. It’s utter fantasy to believe that he was deliberately wasting time when we were 4-0 up and comfortably managing the game. That was jobsworth reffing of the highest order. Ridiculous decision.

 

I'd wager 9/10 refs wouldn't have even thought of giving a yellow for that, were 4-0 FFS and on the ascendency, not exactly a reason to time time waste. Common sense doesn't seem to exist in today's world.

 

Straight from Ifab...

The referee awards a free kick but an opponent prevents the free kick being taken quickly. What is the referee’s decision?

The offending player must be cautioned (yellow card) for delaying the restart of play.

 

That has no bearing whatsoever on what happened with Smallwood

 

That has got to be for players standing in front of the ball not someone taking a free kick 30 yards away.

 

Ah that's fair enough. I hadn't remembered the incident. He got booked for taking too long then. I don't think a referee should be factoring in the scoreline on this judgement. It just muddies the water.

 

The time limit thing is a pertinent point mind. I'm not sure how on earth people expect referees to be consistent on timewasting when there is no time limit.

 

Which is exactly what Smallwood was doing, or wasn't happy with his run up. He wasted no time whatsoever.

 

Eh…..? Read it again and see where you went wrong?

 

I was just looking at League 2

 

Sounds more promising. I was in the car driving home on sat and Raynor mentioned using a concussion sub for Richards, just assumed we did in the end.