I thought we’d left the 2nd rate referees behind in the championship and below but today I witnessed a shocker by one of our learned colleagues. No issue with the goal, the result or the sending off but I’ve never seen a referee for a long time giving so poor decisions both ways. I’m usually the one around me sticking up for decisions but he was awful from the first whistle. He missed 3 mandatory yellows in the first half, then booked for an innocuous challenge by a Soton player. There was a pretty blatant hand ball too!. The red card, (seen live only) was no worse than the 3 challenges in the first half and baffled everyone as he’d let virtually everything go before it. He stopped play when we were attacking to tend to a player clenching his knee, if I could give a minus 1 out of 10 I would have. Again. no excuses that we lost, we deserved to, just a very poor, washed up referee stealing a living in the SG!
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