Martin Atkinson to ref the Derby

EFCPaul · October 4, 2015

Hope someone poos in his dinner.

Aar_the_Toffees · October 4, 2015

An absolutely horrible refereeing performance today.

blulouie · October 4, 2015

Usual derby ref performance for me , very picky over our players .
The normal red bias was show with Mucous Leiva , should have walked.

Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian · October 4, 2015

total bottler from start to finish

mlyons · October 4, 2015

Jamie Carragher, of all people, called out Atkinson for not sending off Lucas.

Eric Djemba-Djemba · October 4, 2015

Barkley could easily have been sent off like.

Osamabindiesel · October 4, 2015

I thought he did a good job with all of the major altercations that took place, but he made some really poor decisions in the first half. The Reds were slippin and he was whistlin

SpurtingLesbian · October 4, 2015

Osamabindiesel said:
I thought he did a good job with all of the major altercations that took place, but he made some really poor decisions in the first half. The Reds were slippin and he was whistlin

some would argue that the 'major altercations' only happened because he refused to correctly punish infringements in the first half leading the Red Half to successful conclude they could do whatever the feck they wanted without any fear of censure or retribution.

Gwlacticos · October 4, 2015

Very poor refereeing today. Bordered on bias but I can't say it affected the result. Obvious bias towards them though. I think we just accept that though eh?. Not too disappointed with the the draw but what can you do?. I will take heart from the fact we are clearly a better team than them.

Blue 1 · October 4, 2015

It's beyond me how this guy keeps getting the derby. The Rodwell one and the one where loads of people got sent off and Kyriagkos broke his leg were two of the worst derby reffing performances I've seen, and he stank the place out today as well.

AlE · October 4, 2015

Eric Djemba-Djemba said:
Barkley could easily have been sent off like.

Perhaps, although I really don't think he deserved a yellow for the incident with Can. Either way you look at it, Atkinson was s***e

Eric Djemba-Djemba · October 4, 2015

AlE said:
Perhaps, although I really don't think he deserved a yellow for the incident with Can. Either way you look at it, Atkinson was s***e

Yeah he shouldn't have been booked for the Can incident but he could have easily been booked for booting the ball away and diving.

mrb85 · October 4, 2015

Atkinson blew up on 3 occasions when we fairly won the ball in dangerous positions.

Potentially his very worst decision was, after stopping Everton from taking a free kick and indicating it was a rolling ball, he then with a few minutes left lets the RS play on after doing exactly the same thing. In fact it was worse because they took the kick 10 yards forward of where the offence took place!

I don't think these are conscious biased decisions but this and other decisions would suggest something subconscious goes on in the minds of most of our so called top refs when reffing certain clubs.