"could" have been booked twice? The first hack on Lallana was as clear a yellow as you can get. The off-the-ball assault was looked at by VAR as a possible straight red. The bottle job of a homer ref didnt book him for either.
My issue with the ref was not that he whistled for fouls but that he refused to punish clear Spurs yellow card offences (even borderline red for Romero's off-the-ball assault on Gross) with yellow cards. Yet he booked Dunk when he won the ball against the Brazilian twat, and booked Buanonotte...
The most astonishing stat from the match is that Romero didn't pick up a yellow card despite hacking Gross down in full view of the ref and then assaulting him off the ball. I think VAR looked at the off-the-ball assault in consideration of a straight red.
The ref was a bottler and a homer of...
We were robbed there. Shocking performance by the officials. Spurs should have been down to 10 before half-time with Romero off, and would have been down to 9 if he had dealt with Maddison properly.
It was the gruesome twosome of Atwell and Salisbury combining to cheat us out of 3 points, wasn't it? Salisbury has continued to have one abysmal performance after another since then with minimal repercussions from PGMOL. Howard 'the red' Webb has achieved the almost impossible task of making...