Referee Bias in Chelsea Games

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

  On 14/04/2013 at 23:42, LDN Blue said:

Well the complaints aren't very convincing. I mean he couldn't even see Aguero's challenge on Luiz and the Torres one.. Well put it this way, it's something all defenders do, including Chelsea ones, and they're rarely given.

That doesn't negate from the mistake and its reprecussions.

Especially when you consider this is the same guy who went back, conferred with the officials and spent time when sending Hazard off for kicking a ball boy, the decision adds salt to the wounds

[Spike 12,049]

We really haven't resorted to this have we?

[Beepu 1,714]

I think its impossible to not have a bias, since everyone has an opinion. Refs supports their team as well.

But we dont know how hard it is to see incidents when we are on the field, sure its easy when we see the whole picture from afar. What goes on in their mind before they make/not make a decision when there are thousands of people yelling in the stands.

Yeah theyre supposed to be professionals, not take sides, not cave into the pressure of the atmosphere and judge the game as it is in the rule book.

Foy is incompetent for sure, hes sucky. But he is human.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 15/04/2013 at 00:23, Eviltwinz93 said:

That doesn't negate from the mistake and its reprecussions.

Especially when you consider this is the same guy who went back, conferred with the officials and spent time when sending Hazard off for kicking a ball boy, the decision adds salt to the wounds

I think we're just looking for excuses in the wrong places and blaming these 2 oversights allows people to have someone else to blame instead of looking at the team.

You can't really compare it with the ball boy incident, I mean Luiz didn't even make a deal out of it because he didn't know what happened. No other players saw it properly, only the TV cameras did.

This thread is unnecessary.

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It's time to move on now. Fulham away on Wednesday

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

  On 15/04/2013 at 07:00, LDN Blue said:

I think we're just looking for excuses in the wrong places and blaming these 2 oversights allows people to have someone else to blame instead of looking at the team.

You can't really compare it with the ball boy incident, I mean Luiz didn't even make a deal out of it because he didn't know what happened. No other players saw it properly, only the TV cameras did.

This thread is unnecessary.

Oh yes the thread is wholly unnecessary but my point is that was the referee's mistakes can't be taken away from. That Aguero tackle was HORRIFIC and the referee, regardless of what other's think or see, made a mistake. It's frustrating now because the result won't change even if punishments are handed out, so I couldn't really care less about that.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

  On 15/04/2013 at 07:27, Eviltwinz93 said:

Oh yes the thread is wholly unnecessary but my point is that was the referee's mistakes can't be taken away from. That Aguero tackle was HORRIFIC and the referee, regardless of what other's think or see, made a mistake. It's frustrating now because the result won't change even if punishments are handed out, so I couldn't really care less about that.

I can't blame Foy for that one. In real time, nobody saw how bad it was. It actually looked unintentional. It was only after watching the replays that you could see it for what it really was. The Torres non-call was much worse because it was obvious even in real time.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I don't get it, how was he supposed to see Kompany's shirt pull? Kompany was very smartly doing it from the front and the ref was naturally behind. As for the Aguero challenge, only the line man could see that and he just didn't have the guts to call it. In both cases I think Foy is blameless. We're just looking for excuses..

[Azpinator 2,325]

  On 15/04/2013 at 08:05, CHOULO19 said:

We're just looking for excuses..

Oh well, linesman messed up our game so we'll just say "nah, it's fine, the team sucks either way"? Each decision counts in a big semi-final. The decisions affected us only during the game... many clear fouls were ignored by Foy so I don't think he's blameless at all.

[Fulham Broadway 17,092]

No action to be taken against Aguero -because Foy saw part of the incident.

Fucking stupid. So if a ref saw one foot of a player graze a players head on the ground and awarded a free kick, but didnt see the follow up deliberate boot to the head that fractured a players skull -no retrospective action would be taken.

The FA at its best as usual

[Liquidator 5,176]

shit happens. We deserved to lose anyway. Man City were probably kicking themselves for not putting the game out of sight by half time and it should have been. We didn't deserve to win.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

We need some players like Drogba and Ballack. Those were the guys who everyone, inclunding the refs, feared. We're too good sometimes, much like Arsenal in the past few years. Its ok to be nice like Mata, but you also have to show some balls. Afterall, football is no ballet, its a contact sport. This is one of the reasons for the treatment we had from refs this season.

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  On 15/04/2013 at 16:22, Superfrankie said:

We need some players like Drogba and Ballack. Those were the guys who everyone, inclunding the refs, feared. We're too good sometimes, much like Arsenal in the past few years. Its ok to be nice like Mata, but you also have to show some balls. Afterall, football is no ballet, its a contact sport. This is one of the reasons for the treatment we had from refs this season.

Defo. We're just like the German national team. Nobody seems to be capable of stepping up and doing some trash talk or shouting at the ref or opponents making a psychological statement.

You remember Terry coming on vs Stoke and immediatly taking on one of their players? That's leaders' stuff.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 15/04/2013 at 16:22, Superfrankie said:

We need some players like Drogba and Ballack. Those were the guys who everyone, inclunding the refs, feared. We're too good sometimes, much like Arsenal in the past few years. Its ok to be nice like Mata, but you also have to show some balls. Afterall, football is no ballet, its a contact sport. This is one of the reasons for the treatment we had from refs this season.

I disagree.

What we need is the players we have now to stand up and become the new leaders. We have players capable of having a presence; guys like Ivanovic, Ramires and Cech are all capable of being those fearful players.

I support Rafa's decision to leave out Terry & Lampard, in the long-term it's beneficial for the new leaders for this team to emerge.

[Fulham Broadway 17,092]

  On 15/04/2013 at 16:16, Liquidator said:

shit happens. We deserved to lose anyway. Man City were probably kicking themselves for not putting the game out of sight by half time and it should have been. We didn't deserve to win.

Agree we should have lost the game -they are a bunch of bruisers. Yaya Toure a man mountain of a player-superb. Like one of those big fuckers you have to fight in Uncharted 3. He looks even bigger at pitch side.

My point is the FA rules that seeing part of an incident precludes from retrospectively taking any action against an offender is straight out of the Manual for Shitcunts

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  On 15/04/2013 at 16:16, Liquidator said:

shit happens. We deserved to lose anyway. Man City were probably kicking themselves for not putting the game out of sight by half time and it should have been. We didn't deserve to win.

Haha, how could you even say that? Football is a game of 90 minutes. I agree, we were totally shit in the first half but what about thre rest of the game? Dayum mate, we were all over them, If we had a plenty and a city sent off, we would of been celebrating and noone would of even posted bout the first half.

Let suppose we had same shit second half, still that doesn't mean if we had the penalty and won, we didn't deserved that, Sorry but I don't understand how could anyone say we didn't deserve to win? Did someone say that when we won the UCL? Nooo, NOONE.

FOY fucking robbed us.PERIOD

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 15/04/2013 at 17:22, Backstreet09 said:

FOY fucking robbed us.PERIOD

No he didn't. We robbed ourselves when we decided to play let City play for 70 minutes & then decide to show up for only 20 minutes.

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  On 15/04/2013 at 17:28, LDN Blue said:

No he didn't. We robbed ourselves when we decided to play let City play for 70 minutes & then decide to show up for only 20 minutes.

Doesn't matter if we only played well in the last 20 minutes, a penalty is a fucking penalty. If we had that and a possible Kompany sent off, no one would of remembered the last 70 minutes.