It was Darren Sheldrake
Top memory! My apologies to Mr Pawson.
You have Veltman-tinted spectacles.
A name etched in your memory.
Pawson was just a young bastard then.Top memory! My apologies to Mr Pawson.
Should really have been more forceful when the game was stopped for a Bournemouth player to pull his socks up while sitting down, with the other nine Bournemouth outfield players wandering over for a water break.
He ran over to the ref and in a kids party game musical bumps style sat in the floor behind him
Justice.
Yes, but he did point at his watch each time then add 25% of the time wasted to stoppage time to be fair
Not applicable yesterday but I’m convinced they don’t add on enough a lot of the time because the inadequacy of VAR is an embarrassment. If they accurately reflected the age it takes to check everything, there’d be 8 minutes plus at many matches. It would draw even more attention to how poorly implemented that system is.
Me to it is was one of the few games I had taken my daughter to at Withdean, she must have been 6 or 7 at the time. I was fuming after the game and she was a bit shocked because she’d never seen me that cross about anything before.
This appears to be happening all too frequently and not just Saturday. Player goes down, ref asks (I assume) do you need the physio to which they reply (I assume) no but then spends another 30 seconds on the floor adjusting socks and the like. As soon as the ref deems the player is ok then he should restart the game not wait around for the berk to do his barnet.
It felt like the ref was getting visibly annoyed with the Bournemouth players sitting on the floor because of an 'injury' or suffering from cramp. Kept pointing to his watch during these stoppages, and on a few occasions seemed to stop the medics coming on & told the player to get up. Really hope he actively made the decision to limit the injury time because it was so clear it was all Bournemouth's creating.
