Chindie Posted August 31, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 31, 2019 Friend's performance was disgraceful today. Incompetently so, or bent. Either way not to a standard that is defensible. He was absolutely desperate to hand out cards for Villa players, and refused to do so for Palace for similar infractions. It was absurd. It was an awful performance even before the ridiculous ending. That final minute was insult added to a games worth of injury. You almost want us to complain about it, but nothing good would come of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 10 minutes ago, Chindie said: Friend's performance was disgraceful today. Incompetently so, or bent. Either way not to a standard that is defensible. He was absolutely desperate to hand out cards for Villa players, and refused to do so for Palace for similar infractions. It was absurd. It was an awful performance even before the ridiculous ending. That final minute was insult added to a games worth of injury. You almost want us to complain about it, but nothing good would come of it. He will get criticism for the disallowed goal. But the media won't do a proper job on him by showing our players getting yellow cards and comparing them to the same fouls Palace did. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Friend has history with us. It's like he's had a vendetta against us. Refuse to believe that someone could be this incompetent for so long. The Chelsea game in 2013 comes immediately to mind. Ironically right after the game at the Emirates where he gave us 2 penalties that had the Arsenal fans fuming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newry_Villan Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 minute ago, Keyblade said: Friend has history with us. It's like he's had a vendetta against us. Refuse to believe that someone could be this incompetent for so long. The Chelsea game in 2013 comes immediately to mind. Ironically right after the game at the Emirates where he gave us 2 penalties that had the Arsenal fans fuming. Was that the game Lambert lodged a complaint about Friend to the FA? Obviously held a grudge since then and shouldn't have been put in charge of this fixture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 16 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Friend has history with us. It's like he's had a vendetta against us. Refuse to believe that someone could be this incompetent for so long. The Chelsea game in 2013 comes immediately to mind. Ironically right after the game at the Emirates where he gave us 2 penalties that had the Arsenal fans fuming. Not if it will happen but imItaly and Spain they can insist some refs dont ref them again Was a bullshit performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 23 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Friend has history with us. It's like he's had a vendetta against us. Refuse to believe that someone could be this incompetent for so long. The Chelsea game in 2013 comes immediately to mind. Ironically right after the game at the Emirates where he gave us 2 penalties that had the Arsenal fans fuming. Yep, I think he came into the game knowing he was going to make decisions against us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Word removed. Hope he gets a hammering next time he has to ref at VP. Prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Nothing will happen because they’ll close ranks to protect him if we complain but he should never ref a top level game again, one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen. Hopefully isn’t just glossed over on MOTD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 31, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 31, 2019 It'll be glossed over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) Quote Lambert, the Aston Villa manager, has revealed he telephoned Riley, the manager of the Professional Game Match officials board, to register his concerns after two contentious decisions at Stamford Bridge. Villa were incensed when Friend failed to dismiss Branislav Ivanovic for an elbow on Christian Benteke and then suffered further frustration when the Chelsea defender scored the winning goal. Friend also refused to award the visitors an injury-time penalty when John Terry appeared to block a header from Gabriel Agbonlahor with his arm. Lambert will not be punished by the Football Association for his comments after the 2-1 defeat but has spoken to Riley to complain about the Leicestershire official. "I have already spoken to Mike Riley and they [the PGMOL] can watch the DVDs. You just want the big decisions to be right," he said. Everyone makes mistakes. I just thought especially when they are as big as that, you can’t get them wrong. Little ones you can understand because of the pace of the game, but when they’re as blatant as that, you can’t get it wrong. "It was just a major game-changing thing. That was the thing that annoyed me the most - the two major incidents, they got wrong. "All you can do is take it up with Mike and out your point across. It’s not going to bring us back three points. Lambert reporting Friend after a similarly shambolic display in our game against Chelsea. Edited August 31, 2019 by Keyblade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 29 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Lambert reporting Friend after a similarly shambolic display in our game against Chelsea. Friend need a big ban. The FA simply cannot ignore this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 I have never seen friend ref a big game but can see why. Pathetic ref Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Friend need a big ban. The FA simply cannot ignore this. It'll be the PL rather than the FA, and they can and will ignore it. People involved in the game aren't even allowed to criticise referees without a fine. Of course they'll ignore it. 100 lines of "referees do not make mistakes", please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newry_Villan Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Anybody hear the phantom whistle on motd and remarks from Lineker after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 13 minutes ago, Davkaus said: It'll be the PL rather than the FA, and they can and will ignore it. People involved in the game aren't even allowed to criticise referees without a fine. Of course they'll ignore it. 100 lines of "referees do not make mistakes", please. It wont happen but big shots should encourage a ban. Farcical refereeing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Wouldn't go as far as banning him, just demote him from PL officiating because he's clearly not up to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvillafan Posted September 1, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted September 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Keyblade said: Wouldn't go as far as banning him, just demote him from PL officiating because he's clearly not up to it. Certainly needs demoting..... ... but it doesn't seem fair to Championship teams to have to suffer him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Newry_Villan said: Anybody hear the phantom whistle on motd and remarks from Lineker after. Did he actually blow his whistle before Lansbury puts the ball in the net? You hear a whistle, but is that just I’m MOTD? He shouldn’t have blown up to hand out a card, simulation shouldn’t stop the game. The fact that Jack didn’t dive or appeal for a fowl just adds to the mistake. We didn’t play well and faced a team away, that during 2019 has got more points than any team other than Man City and Liverpool. However our game was effected by his inconsistent refereeing. If you read a team has had 5 booked and 1 sent off you’d imagine it’s been a blood bath which it clearly wasn’t. Whilst punishing us and not doing the same to Palace he has directly influenced the game. The farcical end was just the tip of the iceberg. Using the ref as an excuse for a loss always seems like sour grapes, but this was totally exceptional. You feel that if VAR has given us a penalty at some stage, he would have disallowed it for the taker bring offside. I’ve seen a lot of incompetent refs making laughable decisions, but generally against both sides. Yesterday it would be hard to not think that the referee was for some reason carrying out actions in a very biased fashion. Edited September 1, 2019 by DaveAV1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 12 hours ago, Zatman said: Not if it will happen but imItaly and Spain they can insist some refs dont ref them again Was a bullshit performance Can they? That's exactly the kind of thing that got Juve/Milan punished, asking that specific refs don't have their games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 If this isn't blatant cheating then I don't know what is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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