Popular Post CrackpotForeigner Posted August 20, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2013 I don't like the message this sends: Allow one of the Darling 4 to lose and you're gone. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I don't like the message this sends: Allow one of the Darling 4 to lose and you're gone. Whilst I am in total agreement with this one thing I haven't seen yet is another source actually confirming he has actually been dropped. All refs do 4th official duties, what makes the arse fan so sure it isn't scheduled duty rather than a demotion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Yesterday I had to listen to one or two Arsenal fans tell me that the first wasn't a penalty because, apparently, the ref had played the advantage!! Where's the eye roll emoticon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Vlaar shouldve been sent off and Luna shouldn't have been booked but that's was the assistants call that he listened to. Second pk was correct and maybe he didn't play enough advantages for Arsenal. Overall, not terrible, actually pretty decent considering the number of big decisions he had to make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I hate the argument he got the ball...he bloody touched the ball with the slightest touch possible that made little or no difference to the trajectory the ball was going. It's a penalty every day of the week. I do think the ref was poor though to both teams. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Re Vlaar - yes he stuck his leg out and stood still but IMO the Arsenal player (Rosicky?) was already on his way down and dived into Vlaar diverting the direction of his initial run - I've seen them given though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 He was terrible and deserved to be dropped. He should have sent their keeper off. He should never have booked Luna. And, Rosicky should have been carded in the first 5 or 10 minutes of the game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Key Question :- Would he have been dropped if Arsenal had won the game. I don't quite understanding this dropping of referee's to me he hasn't been selected for this weekends fixtures - thats not to say he won't be in the future (Happy to be corrected - but thats how I see it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I hate the argument he got the ball...he bloody touched the ball with the slightest touch possible that made little or no difference to the trajectory the ball was going. It's a penalty every day of the week. I do think the ref was poor though to both teams. Yep there is a common misconception that if you get the ball first, it can not be a foul - No Such Rule Exists 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaCas Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 No evidence that Taylor has been dropped? A single Arsenal blog is the only source of this (dis)information I thought Taylor did ok. There are always going to be differences of opinion but in the main I thought he got the big decisions right - brave too, to (correctly) give two pens and a sending off against the home side Luna booking was wrong (signalled by the linesman) and Vlaar was somewhat lucky but generally a decent perfromance 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted August 20, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2013 I thought the only major decision he got wrong was not sending off Vlaar. However the only reason this was a problem was how keen he was at waving round yellow cards from the off, especially the frankly ridiculous booking for Tony. This really left him nowhere to go in the Koscienly affair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I bet against Chelsea we get absolutely nothing from the ref now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted August 20, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2013 I bet against Chelsea we get absolutely nothing from the ref now. Probably wont matter that much TBH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 i have seen worse ref performances, what about phil dowd for all games against us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Not surprised Alan Taylor isn't reffing next weekend. Anthony Taylor on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaGoMarching Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 When the FA do things like this, they should come out and say why. It undermines Referee's and you can easily see Ref's not giving certain decisions in future and recieving public criticism from an established figure like Wenger. if they FA came out and said it was due to the erratic decision making and amount of cards awarded then i think we may accept it but to say nothing allows all sorts of conjecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SikhInTrinity Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Mark Halsey, say's referees are given a schedule way in advance of when they are released. So he would have always been pencilled in as 4th Referee this weekend. Hardly dropped if the Referee gets an injury on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 it pisses me off when the FA / prem do this we now all know he was hit at the weekend, why doesn't riley now come out and say why he was shit? we'll now every arsenal fan crowing over the penalties and us moaning over the lack of a red card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 (edited) When Goal line technology was finally introduced, Platini stated let that be the end of the use of technology. I beg to differ. Let that be the start of technology is where I stand. I'ts great to have controversy at matches but not when your own team is on the receiving end & refs, love em or hate em are only human after all (Fat/thin Phil excepted) The point is it's the 21st century, we have the technological means to help referees with offside decisions, penalty kicks, sendings off etc etc so use some common sense & bloody well use it. As for Anthony Taylor, you have to say he must be one of the most ballsy refs in the Premier league to award 2 penalties in one match & against one of the `Rich 4` in their own back yard. He then has the balls to send off Koschielny & unlike a lot of refs did not then try to even it up in favour of the rich team which he could easily have done with Vlaar. Yes, he made his balls ups, but he has a bigger pair of balls. Well done ref, take a bow son, take a bow. Edited August 20, 2013 by villa-revolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Oh one of the big boys lost so the ref is dropped? There was no dropping the ref/linesman after the horror show at city last year was there? Yea lets just blame the ref and give absolutely no credit to villa like everyone seems to have done, only praise we got was from carragher last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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