Referee Watch 2026/27

Referee Watch 2026/27

Untouchable said:
Friday’s ref is the awful Andy Madley.

Tonight’s officials:
Reading v Brentford (20:00)
TOM NIELD
Sam Lewis and Hugh Gilroy
Fourth Official: Samuel Allison
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Thanks.

Nield is OK.

Madley can be decent - apparently but never for us
 

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I cannot believe they are still going frame by frame to guess the "kick point".
 

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My god! They even checked to see if Ezon touched the ball. WTF!!!!!
 

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Why hasn't Owen asked him when the 20 refs in Stockley Park intervened. And Why hasn't he asked why they have been stood down this weekend?
 

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OMG Webb has to go. Didn't support Foden red card whereas his VAR did but says VAR cannot intervene to downgrade a red card,

Save me from this f***ing idiot please.
 

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"I can't tell if that's going wide or not", It was lucky if it hit the corner flag

WHO ARE THESE IDIOTS???
 

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Needless to say that there was no analysis on the decision to not give Schade a stonewall penalty.
 

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....i can't wait to hear what you ref haters have to say tonight 🤫😂😂😂😂😂😂
 

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Banana said:
OMG Webb has to go. Didn't support Foden red card whereas his VAR did but says VAR cannot intervene to downgrade a red card,

Save me from this f***ing idiot please.
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Agree, its a sh**show. Ruining the game.
 

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The ref last night made some very odd decisions. Disallowing their goal for a high boot was very harsh, our goal was even more of an odd decision to chalk off and then blows when Thiago is clean through
 
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hanworthbee said:
The ref last night made some very odd decisions. Disallowing their goal for a high boot was very harsh, our goal was even more of an odd decision to chalk off and then blows when Thiago is clean through
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Thiago was offside which seemed correct. However the two disallowed goals were incorrect, none of our players even appealed for high boot and he's nowhere near connecting with our players when he makes contact. Likewise Schuster heads it cleanly in and then his follow through catches the back of the Reading players head which he can do nothing about.
 

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super J said:
Thiago was offside which seemed correct. However the two disallowed goals were incorrect, none of our players even appealed for high boot and he's nowhere near connecting with our players when he makes contact. Likewise Schuster heads it cleanly in and then his follow through catches the back of the Reading players head which he can do nothing about.
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IT was in our half.
 

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Untouchable said:
He’s very close to kicking Sangare in the head.


View: https://x.com/readingfclens/status/2099942245805760571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2099942245805760571%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=
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Oh c'mon mate.... the Reading player only had eyes on the ball with a view to scoring...he wasnt interested in kicking Sangares head....imo the game of football is becoming increasingly sanitised...and although VAR wasnt involved last night...as KA alludes to in his interview...it is hugely impacting on refereeing decisions and their mindset across all of football... from grass roots upwards.
 

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JCMcBee said:
Oh c'mon mate.... the Reading player only had eyes on the ball with a view to scoring...he wasnt interested in kicking Sangares head.
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I agree with you but that isn’t what the referee needs to consider.

Any player who puts their boot that high risks an indirect free kick against them. It’s always been that way.
 

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badgerbee said:
Excellent ref in Man U v BHA game tonight. 👍
Farai Hallam
Ex Stevenage Player

Has he reffed us??
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Yes, did our 2:2 home game vs Everton last season. From memory didn’t give the, what would have been soft, foul on Lewis-Potter in the NW corner from which Everton scored their first equaliser.
Discussion at the time was that Hallam is less inclined to give cheap free kicks and so it was frustrating how naive we were in trying to win them; like he was one of the typical Premier League refs.
 

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ProRef have served us up an early Halloween nightmare.

Only a Pawson/ Madley combination could have been worse.

Aston Villa v Brentford
Referee: Craig Pawson.
Assistants: Lee Betts, Mat Wilkes.
Fourth official: Anthony Backhouse.
VAR: Peter Bankes.
Assistant VAR: Ian Hussin.
 

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Untouchable said:
ProRef have served us up an early Halloween nightmare.

Only a Pawson/ Madley combination could have been worse.

Aston Villa v Brentford
Referee: Craig Pawson.
Assistants: Lee Betts, Mat Wilkes.
Fourth official: Anthony Backhouse.
VAR: Peter Bankes.
Assistant VAR: Ian Hussin.
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Christ, that is truly dreadful. We seem to be plagued by incompetent officials so far this season..
 

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I’d be curious to know what a dream team of officials is from the collective on here. And I’d suggest that come Saturday evening all will be saying ‘had a surprisingly good game’ (we won) or ‘I told you so’ (we lost)
 

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Brentford77 said:
I’d be curious to know what a dream team of officials is from the collective on here. And I’d suggest that come Saturday evening all will be saying ‘had a surprisingly good game’ (we won) or ‘I told you so’ (we lost)
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If I had to pick from the current crop I’d go for Attwell and Gillett. Both prone to bonkers moments but consistently more reliable that the others IMO.

A shame Anthony Taylor retired. The best by some distance.
 

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Does anyone want to defend that from Pawson?
 

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Villa fans didn't seem to happy with him either.
Can't think why as he gave them everything.
 

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Brentford77 said:
I’d be curious to know what a dream team of officials is from the collective on here. And I’d suggest that come Saturday evening all will be saying ‘had a surprisingly good game’ (we won) or ‘I told you so’ (we lost)
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For the record we drew and he wss f***ing awful
 

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Possibly the worst part of his refereeing was to theatrically count down the time for Kayode’s long throws (I thought they were treated as set pieces and not counted down), whilst Cash was given as long as he wanted (and more) to take defensive throws
 

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Who was the ref at Orient that nearly caused a riot late 90s? This was on a par
 

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He was maddening in the little bits i was able to watch... looking back at the highlights, they captured this which confused me at the time, why did he stop this threatening situation for us?!

View: https://youtu.be/XLQm366y_90?t=80
 

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Mr Tree said:
He was maddening in the little bits i was able to watch... looking back at the highlights, they captured this which confused me at the time, why did he stop this threatening situation for us?!

View: https://youtu.be/XLQm366y_90?t=80
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I suspect it was Kayode holding which was consistent with him giving every cheap foul to Villa.
 

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Mr Tree said:
He was maddening in the little bits i was able to watch... looking back at the highlights, they captured this which confused me at the time, why did he stop this threatening situation for us?!

View: https://youtu.be/XLQm366y_90?t=80
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2'04 Callum Wilson goes for a ball he is quite entitled to challenge for, foul is given, Wilson then booked for complaining. Just rubbish.
 
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