Downers on the night/ref deserved his own thread

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

The ref was absolutely f***ing b******s. Every time they moaned, he booked one of ours. They must have had about twice as many frees. Deco - great player, dirty little s***.

[Michael]

Let's just hope we get one who's as easily intimidated for the home leg.

[_00_deathscar]

How the f*** did they miss Deco doin Bellamy (?) late in the game on the far side!!!!?

[intense enigma]

Any news on Fig's mate?

[Sheida V]

All of them dive

[nvdm]

You'd think they know something about the laws against diving too, what with them all being professional referees.

[magneto]

How do refs like that get appointed?

 

He wasn't bad..he was shockingly bad. I think we could have actually beaten them by a bigger margin had the game not stopped every 5 mins for a Barca player diving.

 

Is he our ref for the 2nd leg as well?

[LeeRadford]

I completely agree, I spent the whole game waiting for a p*ss poor decision to ultimately ruin things for us.

 

At the slightest fall the ref gave a barca free kick, I think I even remember he gave barca a free kick when it was Gerrard who was fouled!

 

The worst example though was when he decided to give Agger a yellow card after the barca players were having a go.

 

Although, by the sounds of it Mike Riley had a worse time in Roma! I believe he is now in the guiness book of world records for the most yellow cards or something!

[McBain]

I dont usually bitch about refs but he was utter toilet

[Guest Ant]

For the first 10 minutes he let the game flow, and once the Barca players and fans got on his back he s*** one

[Cunny]

with refs like that football is basically a non-contact sport

in the second half we wised up and started appealing for free kicks for nowt as well - when in Rome...

Edited February 22, 2007 by Cunny

[ManxRed]

YOU ARE THE REF:

 

Two players, Sissoko and Ronaldinho, go for a loose ball, neither in possession. Sissoko gets his foot there first and plays the ball, Ronaldinho gets there fractionally later and catches Sissoko on the ankle causing Sissoko to fall awkwardly and be stretchered off.

 

Do you:

 

1. Award Barca a free-kick

2. Award Barca a free-kick

3. Award Barca a free-kick

[Bailo]

YOU ARE THE REF:

 

Two players, Sissoko and Ronaldinho, go for a loose ball, neither in possession. Sissoko gets his foot there first and plays the ball, Ronaldinho gets there fractionally later and catches Sissoko on the ankle causing Sissoko to fall awkwardly and be stretchered off.

 

Do you:

 

1. Award Barca a free-kick

2. Award Barca a free-kick

3. Award Barca a free-kick

YOU ARE THE REF (2):

 

Gerrard breaks free on the right hand side, knocks the ball past the opposition player (Zambrotta?), beats him for pace and brushes him aside despite having his arm pulled back. Zambrotta falls over as a result.

 

Do you:

 

1. Award Barca a free-kick

2. Award Barca a free-kick

3. Award Barca a free-kick

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I completely agree, I spent the whole game waiting for a p*ss poor decision to ultimately ruin things for us.

 

At the slightest fall the ref gave a barca free kick, I think I even remember he gave barca a free kick when it was Gerrard who was fouled!

 

The worst example though was when he decided to give Agger a yellow card after the barca players were having a go.

 

Although, by the sounds of it Mike Riley had a worse time in Roma! I believe he is now in the guiness book of world records for the most yellow cards or something!

kinell:

 

Riley booked 8 Roma & 3 Lyon players

[Alonso]

YOU ARE THE REF (2):

 

Gerrard breaks free on the right hand side, knocks the ball past the opposition player (Zambrotta?), beats him for pace and brushes him aside despite having his arm pulled back. Zambrotta falls over as a result.

 

Do you:

 

1. Award Barca a free-kick

2. Award Barca a free-kick

3. Award Barca a free-kick

YOU ARE THE REF (3)

 

A Barca player dives after minimal contact with Agger and Barca players rush towards you asking for the player to be booked.

 

Do you

 

1. Award Barca a free-kick and book Agger

2. Award Barca a free-kick and book Agger

3. Award Barca a free-kick and book Agger

[ricflairandy]

YOU ARE THE REF (3)

 

A Barca player dives after minimal contact with Agger and Barca players rush towards you asking for the player to be booked.

 

Do you

 

1. Award Barca a free-kick and book Agger

2. Award Barca a free-kick and book Agger

3. Award Barca a free-kick and book Agger

 

should be

 

 

YOU ARE THE REF (3)

 

A Barca player dives after minimal contact with Agger. You have allready given the freekick, and deemed that was fair. Suddenly Barca players rush towards you asking for the player to be booked.

 

Do you

 

1. cave in and book Agger

2. cave in and book Agger

3. cave in and book Agger

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

et al

 

worst was the Momo booking. Was doing nowt until the Barca players started bleating. Then booked Momo

[Gerry]

YOU ARE THE REF:

 

Two players, Sissoko and Ronaldinho, go for a loose ball, neither in possession. Sissoko gets his foot there first and plays the ball, Ronaldinho gets there fractionally later and catches Sissoko on the ankle causing Sissoko to fall awkwardly and be stretchered off.

 

 

That was the worst one for me - quite frankly ridiculous. Ronaldinho gets treated like some kind of minor deity by referees. He simply can't do anything wrong.

[Tones]

Unrelated to last nights match, but did anyone watch the Everton highlights. Anichebe (i think) pulled Michael Dawsons shirt. He fell, causing Anichebe to also fall. Linesman (correctly) waved for a free kick to Spurs. Uriah Rennie gave a free kick to Everton and booked Dawson. Spurs alert him to linesman giving the decision spurs way. Rennie speaks with the linesman who totally looses his balls and says yeah free kick to Everton. Arteta steps up and scores. Ridiculous reffing again.

[Nebraska Red]

That was the worst one for me - quite frankly ridiculous. Ronaldinho gets treated like some kind of minor deity by referees. He simply can't do anything wrong.

 

 

to be fair, toothpick has earned some of this royal treatment by refs. he gets chopped down on a regular basis, but usually gets up and gets on with the game.

 

watching him last night, he did not seem to fancy getting involved in a physical game and was pretty much on the outside looking in for most of the game.

 

he must have looked up and down Momo and thought "sod this for a lark"

[_00_deathscar]

Ronaldinho is usually smiling throughout a game. Don't remember similing at all last night..

[Nebraska Red]

Ronaldinho is usually smiling throughout a game. Don't remember similing at all last night..

 

his face after our 2nd was priceless.

 

he must have been wondering what was happening, he'd read the papers about how poor we were, how lucky we were, how badly prepared we were after the Algarve and must have thought we were ripe for a shellacking.

 

d'oh, d'oh, d'oh.

[ManxRed]

Anyone who thought our ref was bad last night should have watched tonight's Blackburn game. Inept isn't a good enough word for that particular clown. What's worse than 'inept'?

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Riley

[Edvard]

Riley

 

It's funny because it's true.