Quote Originally Posted by SithHappens View Post
101 is a lot ill give you that.

I think most fans will at time feel the ref was biased, and at the time it appears that way. I think as others have said it is more like they are just crap. We can all point to games where very very poor decisions cost you, just two games this season for us, Port Value at home and Ipswich at home. The refereeing was nothing short of horrendous, in the Port Vale game he was giving them farcical decisions even their fans were chanting that he was one of their own. After the Ipswich game the officials apologised for being crap.

The only thing ive heard (not sure if it was Poll or not) who said refs do get pre conceptions about players, so if a player is known to be a diver etc they will be on the look out for it more which might influence decisions against them.

Now VAR is a different beast to me, i just dont get some of the decisions and inconsistencies, the onfield ref its easy to make mistakes but when they are watching it on TV etc i just dont get the number of errors they seem to make. Take Forest and Huddersfield in the play off final, you talk about penalties not given but Huddersfield had two obvious penalty appeals waved away and VAR did nothing to rectify it. You can excuse the on field ref, but not VAR.
101 is of course tongue in cheek but all season we've had an attacking, entertaining side who have spent most of the time in the opponent's third of the field. Given the countless number of free kicks outside the box you'd expect, say, at least one per three games inside the box. That would be 13 so far. You're right about lower league refs, they are poor, but you'd expect a few to know the rules and not to favour one team or the other. Last week at Burton one of their players made a breathtaking save managing to stretch an arm and fingertip the ball round the post. Nothing wrong with that except it was a defender who made the save. If we end up taking pens in the play offs, our players will have forgotten where to place the ball never mind score

VAR is a flop, an experiment that's ruined the game. The best you can say about it, it would have put the Maradonna and Lampard refs to shame.