[Albion] Pawson

[El Turi]

I’ve now seen the replay of the free kick and as others have said, it shouldn’t have been given. Like Gordon and Willock, Barnes dived.

 

[dazzer6666]

Not biased. Just incredibly incompetent. Stealing a living.

 

[Littlemo]

I know it’s weird to reply to myself but this blows my tiny mind. Imagine watching that game as a Newcastle fan and thinking the referee was anything but incredibly generous to you? Madness.

But the same kind of logic that can lead to you thinking it’s fine when your owners are accused of crimes against humanity (massacre of hundreds if not thousands of migrants and asylum seekers on their borders), war crimes (in Yemen) and human rights abuses among the very worst in the world all in the last year…and global NGOs explicitly state the Saudi sportswashing via PIFs involvement in Newcastle and others has helped them. They should be hiding in shame at what their club represents today, not claiming victimhood at a refereeing performance that was blatantly in their favour.

I think this comes under “complete lack of self-awareness”

This is how all fans seem to watch football these days. Looking for reasons to blame the ref. It’s not our fault that we didn’t defend a free-kick well enough, it’s the refs fault for giving it.

I’m not saying he had a good game, far from it but all we do now is blame the refs these days. Folk moan about them every week and that’s not just us, it’s all fans of all teams. It’s like we don’t recognise the bias we view games in.

 

[chickens]

Although Ayari eventually gave him the excuse he’d been looking for all day, it was clear that we weren’t going to be allowed to go home until he’d successfully offered Newcastle a penalty.

 

[studio150]

Wieffer non 2nd yellow the only correct call of the day but it could have been given.

The first Wieffer yellow was correct, assuming it was given for delay of game by grabbing the ball to stop the quick freekick.

 

[hampshirebrightonboy]

I think this comes under “complete lack of self-awareness”

This is how all fans seem to watch football these days. Looking for reasons to blame the ref. It’s not our fault that we didn’t defend a free-kick well enough, it’s the refs fault for giving it.

I’m not saying he had a good game, far from it but all we do now is blame the refs these days. Folk moan about them every week and that’s not just us, it’s all fans of all teams. It’s like we don’t recognise the bias we view games in.

There are plenty of people complaining about how the free kick was defended. But there is no getting away from the fact that Pawson is useless

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I think this comes under “complete lack of self-awareness”

This is how all fans seem to watch football these days. Looking for reasons to blame the ref. It’s not our fault that we didn’t defend a free-kick well enough, it’s the refs fault for giving it.

I’m not saying he had a good game, far from it but all we do now is blame the refs these days. Folk moan about them every week and that’s not just us, it’s all fans of all teams. It’s like we don’t recognise the bias we view games in.

PGMOL have issued written apologies to us as well as other clubs in the PL (Wolves, in particular) admitting their blatant mistakes.

 

[Littlemo]

PGMOL have issued written apologies to us as well as other clubs in the PL (Wolves, in particular) admitting their blatant mistakes.

Sure, when they have made mistakes. It doesn’t mean that every decision we don’t like is a mistake though. I’m not saying they never make any mistakes, but fans now are absolutely dying to find reasons to be angry at refs for not giving decisions the way they want them to be. Jesus, half of us don’t know the laws of the game well enough to know what is and isn’t a correct call.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sure, when they have made mistakes. It doesn’t mean that every decision we don’t like is a mistake though. I’m not saying they never make any mistakes, but fans now are absolutely dying to find reasons to be angry at refs for not giving decisions the way they want them to be. Jesus, half of us don’t know the laws of the game well enough to know what is and isn’t a correct call.

But the other half do, and have stated their experience on this thread. Even the BBC report on the match hints at the controversies.

 

[nsclurker]

As bad a display in charge as I’ve ever seen.

Anthony Taylor levels of shite.

 

[mothy]

I don't normally complain about refs. Today's was the most inept & biassed I've seen

 

[Hotchilidog]

Newcastle fans somehow incredibly think they were cheated out of a win by Pawson favouring us. These tweets are far from unique. At least when the referee robbed us at Spurs previously their fans had the self-awareness and recognised it.

Unbelievable from those Saudi twats who had clearly paid Pawson off

 

[All Four Grounds]

With players persistently diving and clutching their face when contact was elsewhere try and yet their opponents sent off it is not a surprise that referees will get taken in and clearly we all remember the incidents which cost our team. Yesterday I blame the Newcastle player far more than Pawson. Very often this cheating is very hard to detect with the naked eye and it is no surprise the one decision that cost us (the free kick leading up to the penalty) wasn’t eligible for VAR.

 

[WhingForPresident]

With players persistently diving and clutching their face when contact was elsewhere try and yet their opponents sent off it is not a surprise that referees will get taken in and clearly we all remember the incidents which cost our team. Yesterday I blame the Newcastle player far more than Pawson. Very often this cheating is very hard to detect with the naked eye and it is no surprise the one decision that cost us (the free kick leading up to the penalty) wasn’t eligible for VAR.

He was giving bullshit decisions against us from the off and obviously had some reason to do so. Started with the most obvious yellow card in history, which he failed to even give as a free kick, and went rapidly downhill from there. Two penalties awarded for dives, one thankfully not in the box, then a legit pen from a free kick won with a dive, you can only blame the official at that point.

But the longer teams that play like them and Arsenal prevail, the worse the PL will be.

 

[fruitnveg]

PGMOL have issued written apologies to us as well as other clubs in the PL (Wolves, in particular) admitting their blatant mistakes.

Their most blatant mistake is hiring that chancer as a match offical. I look forward to reading their apology

 

[WhingForPresident]

Just saw the dive back. Willock and professional cheat Gordon high fiving each other for conning the referee in the aftermath.. I'd be f***ing seething at that if I were a ref, which I'm fortunately not, and perhaps even less inclined to give them decisions for 'minimal contact', yet Pawson still decided to give them the nonsense free kick which led to the actual penalty just minutes later.

'Odd' behaviour I'd say. 'Odd'.

 

[All Four Grounds]

He was giving bullshit decisions against us from the off and obviously had some reason to do so.

Like?

 

[Happy Exile]

But the other half do, and have stated their experience on this thread. Even the BBC report on the match hints at the controvershe’s.

The Guardian used the word “baffling” for the decision not to book Burn.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I don't recall ever seeing a ref put his arm round a player for as long as Pawson did with one of theirs who may or may not have been injured. A long cuddle and chat. Fans should have sung 'get a room'.

 

[JetsetJimbo]

The reffing was bad, but it wasn't quite Attwell-at-Spurs level. That remains the gold standard for "refereeing so bad it's indistinguishable from corruption" imo