Worst Football referee decision you can remember

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GrahamwantshisOates

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Not just BFC related but any you can remember.

The WC qualifier against Holland.
The score was 0-0 and David Platt was clean through on goal. Ronald Koeman hacked him down just inside the penalty area. Everyone was expecting a penalty and red card. Nothing clearer.
He awarded a yellow card and free kick on the line. It came to nothing and KOe man later went on to score. That was the end of our World Cup.

Ironically in the reverse fixture a Dutch player was brought down outside the box and was awarded a penalty!
 
A Sunderland related one, against Tranmere in 2000. They had a lad sent off and made a sub at the same time, the lad who got sent off left the pitch but the lad who was to be subbed stayed on so they still had 11. Ref finally sorted it out and then blew the final whistle seconds later. It probably wouldn't have made a difference to the scoreline tbh
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Not just BFC related but any you can remember.

The WC qualifier against Holland.
The score was 0-0 and David Platt was clean through on goal. Ronald Koeman hacked him down just inside the penalty area. Everyone was expecting a penalty and red card. Nothing clearer.
He awarded a yellow card and free kick on the line. It came to nothing and KOe man later went on to score. That was the end of our World Cup.

Ironically in the reverse fixture a Dutch player was brought down outside the box and was awarded a penalty!
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I was at both of those games! 2 nil up at Wembley if I remember. Away in Rotterdam went on the official England Travel Club 48hrs of mayhem convoy of coaches from Manchester via Birmingham via London Victoria via Dover then up through France Belgium and a bit of Holland. The only stop once we arrived on mainland Europe was a service station somewhere in Belgium, it got wiped out of stock and virtually no one paid for anything. There was a purpose built beer tent in the car park that also got totalled! Straight into Rotterdam and escorted into the ground drinking piss Dutch lager from about two hours before kick off. After the match straight back overnight on the coach and ferry. Longest trip of my life and an utterly shit performance by England.
 
I think if we'd not won yesterday, the Sunderland player not getting sent off against us would go down as a horrendous one in the memory - we saw the game out, so as bad as it was it didn't have any consequences really.

The two that stick out for me have already been mentioned:
- The non-penalty decision at 2 nil up against United. 3 nil up and you imagine the psychology of that means we see the game out, we at LEAST get a point rather than lose the game.
- The non-goal decision at 2 - 1 against Germany. 2 - 2 at that point going into half time and the momentum of the game is with England, anything could have happened from there really but its an absolute sickener thinking about it.
 
rememberlesshannon said:
I am still struggling with that one yesterday. I have never seen a more blatant second yellow ever. No crowd, no pressure, just a staggering decision.
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Poor though that decision was it was nowhere near as violent a foul as Schumacher`s was in the 82 World Cup but of course it wasn`t against our team!
 
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van Persie’s sending off Vs Barcelona in the champions league. Second booking for apparently booting the ball away after an offside decision to waste time or out of frustration, was clear as day that he was genuinely having a shot on goal and was unaware of the offside decision. Corrupt ref.
 
Ray Tinkler who reffed a Dirty v West Brom match at ER in the 70s. Cost Leeds the title that year and a ban on home games for the next season.

End of thread-utterly appalling and you have to wonder if the guy took a bribe.
 
Plumbs said:
Ray Tinkler who reffed a Dirty v West Brom match at ER in the 70s. Cost Leeds the title that year and a ban on home games for the next season.

End of thread-utterly appalling and you have to wonder if the guy took a bribe.
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Don’t get me started on him!

Sheffield United away 4th round in 1968.
We had equalised and looking at a replay. In the 89th minute a Sheff Utd player dramatically fell in the penalty box with no other player challenging. He awarded a goal kick then the linesman consulted and suddenly awarded a penalty. Everyone was stunned. To make matters worse I was set on by a group of rival fans after the game.

Yesterday was awful although the result was not affected.
Donny away where a player double hand balled in the 92nd minute!
 
1950`spoolfan said:
Poor though that decision was it was nowhere near as violent a foul as Schumacher`s was in the 82 World Cup but of course it wasn`t against our team!
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For sheer brutality i'd agree, but that incident as with Geoff Hurst 66, was in a full ground World Cup Semi or Final. Millions watching on TV worldwide and all the associated pressure that goes with big games like that.
Yesterday was an empty stadium, no baying mob, few thousand watching ifollow , absolutely no pressure, as straightforward a decision as a ref could have in his entire career and he got it wrong. He has absolutely nothing to fall back on as an excuse, he folded under no pressure at all. From that point he lost the game, because nobody could be booked for anything.
I think it's fair to say the assessor may be thinking, Prem League, full ground, world wide tv audience, pundits analysing every decision, don't think this lad's quite ready for it yet.
 
Plumbs, was that the one that led to the Barry Davies, "the crowd is incensed and they have every right to be " comment?
 
Partick v Morton. Disallowed goal. Why were none of the Morton players honest? I remember Andy Brockbank 'scoring' a free kick in the 80s against York, when the ball curled into the side betting. The York players went bonkers. TBH I thought it had gone in, was in the West.
 
Just remembered the away match at Blackburn in the Prem where a blatant goal kick was given as a corner.
Blackburn equalised. Two points lost and another joke decision that led to our relegation (along with all the decisions made by the wanker twins during the transfer window) 😡
 
Loved Thierry Henry, a sublime player, but that ‘goal’ with his hand against Ireland in the W/C qualifying game was a disgrace, and to see his celebrations following it made it even more unacceptable!
 
Chunkylad said:
Just remembered the away match at Blackburn in the Prem where a blatant goal kick was given as a corner.
Blackburn equalised. Two points lost and another joke decision that led to our relegation (along with all the decisions made by the wanker twins during the transfer window) 😡
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Other way round. The options were Blackpool free kick or corner kick but he gave a goal kick to t’wankers who played it to the halfway line where their man fell over with no one within 3 yards, gave them a free kick, the ball went forward, Kingson completely missed it and the rest is history...
 
TangerineTed said:
Other way round. The options were Blackpool free kick or corner kick but he gave a goal kick to t’wankers who played it to the halfway line where their man fell over with no one within 3 yards, gave them a free kick, the ball went forward, Kingson completely missed it and the rest is history...
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Well remembered Ted. I do remember being livid and losing my shit on the way back to the car
 
TangerineTed said:
Other way round. The options were Blackpool free kick or corner kick but he gave a goal kick to t’wankers who played it to the halfway line where their man fell over with no one within 3 yards, gave them a free kick, the ball went forward, Kingson completely missed it and the rest is history...
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Yes...that one really still rankles....it was right in front of us and was an awful decision followed up by another seconds later.
 
Arsenal v The Mighty Pool
Ian Evatt won the ball two yards outside the area. It resulted in a penalty AND red card for Evatt. It was just as bad a decision as Luke Varney at Bloomfield Road v Man Urinals not getting the penalty.
 
TangerineTed said:
Other way round. The options were Blackpool free kick or corner kick but he gave a goal kick to t’wankers who played it to the halfway line where their man fell over with no one within 3 yards, gave them a free kick, the ball went forward, Kingson completely missed it and the rest is history...
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I think that Gary Taylor Fletcher was in the area when kicked. It should have been a penalty. When they took the goal kick, GTF won the ball at the halfway line. When the referee gave a freekick to T'rovers, GTF threw his arms up in the air and got booked for it. WHAT A FARCE.
 
Obviously the Peter Walton bottle job.

But for a more left field one, Rattin against us in 1966 getting sent off for literally nothing more than asking for an interpreter, no challenge, no interaction with any England players, he simply questioned the referee as he couldn't understand him, Ramsey was then a prick about it, it's no wonder they hate us.
 
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Clive Thomas 1978 Brazil v Sweden. 1-1, last minute corner, Zico scores a header but Thomas claimed to have blown for full time 4 tenths of a second earlier. Bizarre!
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Obviously the Peter Walton bottle job.

But for a more left field one, Rattin against us in 1966 getting sent off for literally nothing more than asking for an interpreter, no challenge, no interaction with any England players, he simply questioned the referee as he couldn't understand him, Ramsey was then a prick about it, it's no wonder they hate us.
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I think Rattin has already committed a few fouls beforehand and already yellow carded if they had been around then. Anyway it’s evens now as Maradonna “Hand of God“ goal was a complete farce.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
I think Rattin has already committed a few fouls beforehand and already yellow carded if they had been around then. Anyway it’s evens now as Maradonna “Hand of God“ goal was a complete farce.
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The referee never mentioned it, he simply said he sent him off because he was following him and Rattin's challenges were nothing on Stiles and Jack Charlton that game.
 
Tim on the Seasiders Pod said his son sits behind the goal doing photography, when Maxwell collared the ref after the foul on Saturday he said he thinks the ref explained to Maxwell that the reason he didn't give the yellow was because Mitchell wasn't going to reach the ball after he knocked it round him.

If that's true its the biggest load of bollocks ever, firstly I'm not even sure its true Mitchell wasn't going to reach it, secondly and most importantly the player had no idea whether Mitchell was going to reach it or not - he just stuck his leg out to bring him down, no way near the ball. Stonewall 2nd yellow.
 
The Varney non-penalty is staggering. I find myself getting completely pissed off with these VAR offsides that are based on someones toenail being off.
 
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