In my time following Brentford he stands out as the worst referee and that's saying something.
He’s right up there with the worst we’ve suffered but special mentions for Alf Grey, Ray Biggar, Keith Stroud (away from home), and John Moss. There are others but these seem to have been consistently dreadful when they reffed us.
One of the few things he did get right was to send Tarky off for two yellow cards.
He is Jug Ears, Tarky is an affectionate term and the way he left, both his initial refusal to play and then his u turn and excuse that was fabricated was the behaviour of a snide.
Is there a patron saint of patios? I may say a prayer to him about mine.
What do they feed the rugby refs, as they appear to take no sh*t and seem to know the laws of the game and take control?
You only know that because they are miced-up. That needs to happen for football refs too.
Giving them headsets won't make them stronger. Or apply the laws of the game. But I hear what you say.
Mate, wtf are you on about?
Ref added plenty of stoppage time.
I agree in terms of getting most things correct.
What he could of done is play on as the ref at the Chelsea game did. Players soon get up when the game doesn’t stop! As someone else has said , if a player is down for 3 minutes, he goes off to “recover” for 3 minutes. It won’t be too long before this time wasting stops. It’s ruining football for the spectators!
You can stop the watch though and he indicated he was but nowhere near enough time given 46 minutes out of 90 the ball wasn’t in play
San Rafael of Cordoba in Spain.Is there a patron saint of patios? I may say a prayer to him about mine.
Yep agree with this. Only poor decision for me was the failure to give Podence a second yellow for a shirt pull just moments after booking Bryan for exactly the same thing, the only difference is that the angry midget was already on a yellow and Madley obviously didn't wan't to issue a red.
It looked bad because the incidents were straight after each other, but Bryan was clearly trying (and failing!) to stop a dangerous break, but Podence was just grappling with our player. I'd still have loved to have seen him off though, he's a good player as well as an annoying little sod.
He allowed Wolves to dictate the tempo when apparently referees are instructed to let the game flow. He was the worst referee we’ve had in the Premiership!
When he told the physio to go off via the shortest route and the physio just totally ignored him and strolled off in the opposite direction, that summed him up for me. He was weak and showed no authority at all. There wasn’t much he could have done about a number of the time-wasting issues, but that was one opportunity he had to show he was in charge and was not standing for unnecessary nonsense - and he completely bottled it.
Totally agree. Yes, he added 6 extra minutes in the first half and more in the second but it was nowhere near equal to the amount of time lost during the game through substitutions and Wolves‘ gamesmanship . I know we all do it but Wolves took it to another level.
I would suggest behaviour of the medical team is dealt with after the game.
