What a crazy game.
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Ref blows just as Diaz crosses and then Bellingham scores.
Why blow then? Surely you can wait until the play becomes less intense?
Why blow then? Surely you can wait until the play becomes less intense?
The ref blowing for full-time on a Real Madrid cross was pretty mental. Thought Bellingham had gone clutch yet again and won it for Real.
From my vantage point it seemed a perfect time to blow up. They had 90+ minutes to score what they needed.
Nah, he's just left to stew over that missed sitter...gotta make your chances count.
Just a bit strange to blow when the ball is in play and in a dangerous area of the pitch. Normally a ref blows when the ball is either cleared, out of play or in an area of the pitch where nothing can be made of it. He literally blew after the player beat his man and was about to cross. Was a good game and Valencia deserved something from it though.
Bellingham sent off too to compound the madness. Clearly a ref that was desperate to be the star of the show.
Yet we dominate one and more are moaning than celebrating.
We will be truly wafted to paradise next week.
This could all be solved with a stadium clock and a 60 min ball in play count.
It could but it would take away some of the fun of it, the panto and shithousing stuff...might make it too sterile and remove some of the 'art/magic' of the game. But no doubt it would solve the 'problem'...but then I wouldn't be able to tweak
Deuterz
like I've been doing since the end of it. He was ready to drop a 'take that haterz' on me when Bellers scored...but who's laughing heartily now?
Didn't;t realise the human blimp had ended up at Fulham?
The end of the first half he blew just as Valencia won the ball back inside the RM penalty box, so that was one each way to be fair.
Also at the moment he blew FT, Brahim was dribbling away from goal
Brilliant assist for Reguilon...
That's fair enough if he did blow it then and not after the RM player took his man on. Though I still think in those moments a referee should only blown once the ball is out of play, the ball is dead or it's somewhere in the middle of the pitch.
I just watched it again on YouTube (because what else would a guy be doing on a Saturday night?) and slowed it down. He originally puts the whistle in his mouth, takes it out, and then puts it back in (he very much seems to be influenced by the Valencia player screaming at him and gesturing from a couple of metres away) a moment later and blows for full-time literally while Diaz has his leg pulled back to cross it.
Not a "robbery", but you can definitely understand why Real Madrid would be pissed. I don't think he blows exactly when he does if that Valencia player isn't bellowing at him. He's the only one near to the referee.
Not a "robbery", but you can definitely understand why Real Madrid would be pissed. I don't think he blows exactly when he does if that Valencia player isn't bellowing at him. He's the only one near to the referee.