Anthony Taylor

jtl60 · January 7, 2015

The problem with some refs like Taylor and Mason is that you get the impression that they just don't understand football, like they have never actually played the game. They don't know the difference between a genuine foul, where someone is accidentally caught or an out and out blatant foul where your trying to noble someone! Regardless of Lukaku put his hand on Cresewells back, it was never enough to knock him over. Also, they just cant seem to read deflections at all. You can usually tell by the direction of the ball or who got to it first as to whose throw or goal kick it is. This guy just didn't have a clue.
And dont even start on the situation where Reid was trying to shield the ball out of play, obstructing Naismith all day long, then when Naismith wins the ball he blows for a foul

blue61 · January 7, 2015

jtl60 said:
The problem with some refs like Taylor and Mason is that you get the impression that they just don't understand football, like they have never actually played the game. They don't know the difference between a genuine foul, where someone is accidentally caught or an out and out blatant foul where your trying to noble someone! Regardless of Lukaku put his hand on Cresewells back, it was never enough to knock him over. Also, they just cant seem to read deflections at all. You can usually tell by the direction of the ball or who got to it first as to whose throw or goal kick it is. This guy just didn't have a clue.
And dont even start on the situation where Reid was trying to shield the ball out of play, obstructing Naismith all day long, then when Naismith wins the ball he blows for a foul

My pet hate this, it's obstruction, not 'shielding the ball'. I wish the authorities would outlaw it, does my head in.

jaspercabbage · January 7, 2015

blue61 said:
My pet hate this, it's obstruction, not 'shielding the ball'. I wish the authorities would outlaw it, does my head in.

Totally agree, and to add to that, Reid only fell over because he was leaning back into Naisy who then nipped around him.

Minimeister · January 7, 2015

KevMirallas said:
We had a perfectly good goal disallowed and everyone just walked back to their positions. Not a breath of complaint.

And we wonder why it keeps happening.

Absolutely mate. The ref gave them corner after corner which could of went either way and no-one bothered to even speak to the ref. The best was in the second half when Jags could have booted the ball up field but stopped to almost tell the ref it'd gone out.

As already pointed out about the ref, yes he's a terrible ref but playing on was a good decision and not sending Mirallas off a lucky one for us.

bizzaro · January 7, 2015

hetion said:
Former head of of the ref association has absolutely ripped into the reffing standards this season:

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ackett-jones-marriner-mason-foy-probert-riley

Look at this example in that article - same ref last night! CHRIST'S SAKE.

Swansea’s Wayne Routledge is sent off by referee Anthony Taylor - a decision later overturned. Photograph: BPI/REX/BPI/REX

Routledge’s red card, which was shown by Anthony Taylor, was later overturned by the Football Association and, while Taylor was not on Hackett’s list for the chop, he was scathing in his assessment of Riley.

“I see standards falling,” he told the BBC. “Over the Christmas period it reached standards that were bordering on appalling.