EFL Officiating Abomination Journal 23/24

[Guest Mee-9]

Anyone else see Vestegaard get rugby tackled in the penalty box? 

[Filbert_Ross]

When I saw 3 come up on the board I honestly thought that it couldn't possibly be the stoppage time & Hull were subbing their number 3 off. It was the only thing that made sense to me. 
I was expecting 9 minutes. 

[The Doctor]

14 minutes ago, Mee-9 said:

Anyone else see Vestegaard get rugby tackled in the penalty box? 

Yep. Was obvious to everyone except the ref, who was played like a fiddle by Hull 

[Guest Mee-9]

6 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

Yep. Was obvious to everyone except the ref, who was played like a fiddle by Hull 

Then he turned around and booked Faes.

 

The added time was the nail in the coffin. Ground emptied with the farce. 

[Dan LCFC]

Whoever decided 3 minutes should be given a 2 month ban from football minimum. There's errors and then there's just complete unprofessionalism.

[longy]

Ref 100% had an away accumulator on skybet.

 

He could've added 3 days on and we would've still lost that one.

 

Winks was livid with him at one point I was convinced he was gonna get sent of.

 

Pure shambles.

 

[Messi]

33 minutes ago, smudger63 said:

The ref gave a free kick against Winks, when their player had just chucked himself on the floor, to win the foul and fool the ref.

Something their players seemed quite masterly at.

Rosenior has got them well coached in the dark arts.

 

 

30 minutes ago, Drink Water said:

Did anyone notice how that player dived when Winks was so far from him and then Winks went to the player and told him off and called him a liar for falling for no reason. Then the ref gave a yellow to Winks because he called the other guy a cheat for falling for no reason...

 

Seri kicked out at Winks on his way down to the ground after the “push”, that’s why he was fuming - would have been interesting what would have happened if VAR was in action. 

[Corky]

Three minutes would have been offensive before the season. I don't think it made a difference but that isn't the point. We had 8 subs so didn't even make up the time lost for that.

 

As bad as that Arsenal disgrace last season.

[OntarioFox]

[CosbehFox]

7 times he told the keeper and no 5 to speed up goal kicks. Then came up with that injury time. I thought the fourth official had made an error !

[The Doctor]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

7 times he told the keeper and no 5 to speed up goal kicks. Then came up with that injury time. I thought the fourth official had made an error !

And he was spineless to do so. Tell them once, if they don't then listen, book them. Made it clear he wasn't actually going to punish them so telling them to speed it up was just empty words from him

[FrankieADZ]

do wonder about todays ref, dont know how he got 3mins added on time for all the stoppages today, its hard to respect the officials when things seem so different from one week to the next

[lee7]

Like many posters have said already their was plenty of stoppages today aswell as a number of subs yet only 3 minutes added on 

The refs need to be consistent with added time as todays additional minutes were a farce! 

[Drink Water]

My gut feeling is telling me that refs will be heavily biased against us this season. They see us as outsiders and all that...

[leicesterseddon]

Couldn’t really work out why we had 3 mins extra time given in similar games this season we’ve had 9.

 

Other than that I thought the ref was fine to be honest. Nothing to complain about. 
 

 

[Foxdiamond]

Incredible that this issue is cause of distrust.  There has to clear transparency so that nobody can feel cheated. The powers that be bring the game into disrepute 

[Collymore]

Not only that but the 3 minutes first half wasn't enough. Celebration from Hull team, yellow cards, some significant injuries and time wasting = 3 mins! You normally get 1 minute for absolutely nothing happening. Then just 3 at the end? I hope they're investigated. 

[Craig]

I genuinely thought it was a mistake.

 

There was just no way it could be 3.

 

I was ready to lose my shit at it being 8 or 9 instead of double figures  

 

[ealingfox]

 

2 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

I genuinely think we'd have got a point if the right added time was given. Really poor to only give 3.

 

They could have added 300 minutes and we still wouldn't have scored, even after Hull had gone home.

[jammie82uk]

just a few today
 

https://x.com/robtannerlcfc/status/1697984847304593634?s=46
 

https://x.com/robtannerlcfc/status/1697992202931073329?s=46

[Collymore]

I couldn't find the minutes added on for Championship today but the Prem games were:

 

6mins

6mins

8mins

6mins

7mins

6mins 

 

With many of them going on a few minutes over those times. 

 

We get 3 mins and ref desperate to blow. I know it's individual games but it gives you an idea of the going rate and we felt like that there was a lot of time wasted. 

 

I'd love to have the Cov game where there was 9 ran concurrently with that Hull game to compare. 

 

Absolute farce. 

 

 

Edited 2 September 2023 by Collymore

[Ian Nacho]

The added time wasn’t even the worst one today. Their centre half playing Iheanacho through and the linesman giving offside

 

[Collymore]

1 minute ago, Ian Nacho said:

The added time wasn’t even the worst one today. Their centre half playing Iheanacho through and the linesman giving offside

 

..and Nacho was thinking "thank god for the flag" 

[Gunnlaugson's Rizlas]

Between the reverse-fergie time and them making up a new offside rule as soon as we looked like scoring, I am assuming that was a fix until evidence shows otherwise. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

2 hours ago, Matt said:

30 seconds for a substitution, 8 substitutions, that alone is more than 3 minutes.

 

That's before we take into account the head injuries, the stoppages for fouls that led to 6 second half yellow cards (just a card happy ref - for both teams), any other stoppages and time wasting.

 

All of that said we'd not have scored today even if we'd been given the true amount though or even if it was 10+ minutes added.

 

I like how you just gave up on the maths