[Albion] Michael Oliver - Referee for Man City game [and Everton]

BensGrandad said:

I watched the game from my seat in Lower West and saw nothing wrong with most of Olivers decisions and would think the assessor gave him good marks.

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Easy 10 said:

Did you not notice the increasing levels of irritation in the stadium and around you at Oliver's decisions ? The ironic cheering and applause when he'd (finally) give something our way, having given Everton the benefit of just about every 50/50 and marginal decision that he possibly could ?

Quite apart from the HUGE letoff he gave them when Baines blatantly shoved Gross over at the far post, a couple of his decisions in particular defied belief. The one where Murray literally just stood there and had a defender jump into him from behind and tumble to the ground. Somehow that was construed as a foul by Murray. And a similar instance when the ball was bouncing around in their area next to Propper. Gueyne jumped up to challenge for the ball, landed on his feet, and then comically (and belatedly) toppled over backwards onto the floor almost in slow motion, with Propper having done nothing except land at the same time next to him. Free kick Everton, natch.

Astonishing.

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BobbySmith said:

I thought he gave a lot to Everton, but he got the main ones correct in my book: The Baines one was not a foul, not in a million years, we would be screaming if it was given against us. Murray is very clever and does that a lot and sometimes gets away with it.Cant remember the Propper one. I don't think he was any good overall, but he got those right, IMHO and was correct on the penalties. A 6 out 10 performance. Have a look at the Everton site, they thought he was appalling for them, football is all about opinions.

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Easy 10 said:

It certainly is.

I cannot fathom how you would consider Baine's shove on Gross at the far post as anything other than a foul. Gross was goalside, Baines was caught out, he made no challenge for the ball and simply shoved him in the back the moment Gross had jumped for the header. That's a foul, plain and simple, and we could have zero complaints if one of our defenders had done the same and conceded a pen.

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Easy 10 said:

It certainly is.

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rippleman said:

Nice wind-up BG. He was bullied by Rooney for almost the entirety of the game. When Rooney dived and didn't get the free kick you could see all the spit as shrek screamed a torrent of abuse at Oliver. In my refereeing days no player who did that would have stayed on the pitch.

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BensGrandad said:

Last season Guy Butters said on the radio commentary at one game that we lacked a man who got in the refs ears constantly and needed somebody to do it like Chippy and Nobby used to do

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LamieRobertson said:

In the ear or giving abuse to the ref..best to differentiate..what the two players you were refer to were up to were not what Rooney was doing

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BobbySmith said:

I thought he gave a lot to Everton, but he got the main ones correct in my book: The Baines one was not a foul, not in a million years, we would be screaming if it was given against us. Murray is very clever and does that a lot and sometimes gets away with it.Cant remember the Propper one. I don't think he was any good overall, but he got those right, IMHO and was correct on the penalties. A 6 out 10 performance. Have a look at the Everton site, they thought he was appalling for them, football is all about opinions.

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BensGrandad said:

They argued every decision that went against us as Rooney did that went against Everton. very little if any difference except that Rooney is more well known and higher profile.

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