flobaba I agree about not going to judge someone on specific actions even if I personally disagree with them. His poor judgement means that those private actions have become public and there does have to be accountability for those decisions. For me it means you can't be a referee as someone with a public profile and requiring trust that's gone now.

My bigger issue is what did the PGMOL know, if you were made aware of that incidents and don't have a means to intervene or discipline appropriately then you really aren't fit for purpose. What happens if he was a drug addict and it could be impacting his decisions? From the stories it looks like they aren't discrete so doesn't seem likely nobody have known something is going on that might need action.

    Now Iā€™m getting at the stage of worrying about this guys mental wellbeing

    https://talksport.com/football/2270407/david-coote-premier-league-referee-drug-party-tottenham-man-city/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2024-11-14-Fresh-claims-

    My advice to him : announce tomorrow you are quitting reffing for good. Start a ā€˜funā€™ podcast. Will be rich over night.

    Podcast could be called ā€˜Beyond the white lineā€™ šŸ¤Ŗ

      ā€œSurely he should have been concentrating on the game and not arranging drug partiesā€ šŸ˜‚

      Sicario2 - Tier 1 Podcast could be called ā€˜Beyond the white lineā€™

      šŸ˜† A disgraced ex-ref hosting a podcast called "White Lines" with this as the intro theme would probably kill the market.

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        Just gonna leave this here.

        You can talk about our inadequate attack all you want, but in my view we've just been fucked out of another two points.

        They've been inventing new reasons to fuck us all season. As Arteta said post match it took them "three seconds" to look into this incorrect decision and double down.

        I mean we canā€™t re referee the game, and itā€™s a super high bar for interventions isnā€™t it.

        Taylor had to clear a very high bar just to give the penalty.

        First he had to give a type of decision that's almost never given, even though it would influence the outcome of the match.

        Then he had to choose to give this almost unprecedented decision even though it was incorrect.

        And to give this incorrect decision he either had to overrule the evidence of his own eyes or ignore the lack of it.

        He's really outdone himself, it's a masterpiece. Frankly given the sheer effort and talent Taylor put into fucking this one up, the VAR probably would've felt rude to call the error "clear and obvious".

          Burnwinter a penalty is scored 4 times in 5. You are basically awarding a goal for a moment that will amount to nothing and that was a fair challenge in the end. At least let it be a shot taking action. Itā€™s a decision deserving of a demotion

            I did see someone reference the game against Brighton last season where Lamptey gave away a penalty against Jesus for a challenge where he also touched the ball. I get the ball hit his head but Saliba still made contact with their player after the ball is gone.

            I think we are very unlucky that it got called because many times you get the benefit of the doubt but once it is I think VAR aren't going to intervene because Saliba did contact the player after the ball is gone.

              A bit like Rice va Brighton, Iā€™ve never seen this given. Feels like we signed up for the PGMOL experimentation package.

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              • Panda

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              Does anyone know what is going on with Sky and the refs? Why do they keep backing their dreadful decisions?

              The sky "studio" were unanimous it was a pen yesterday and 1 of the reasons was because Gabriel + Saliba were chaotic in that moment...it is starting to make their coverage unwatchable.

              And then you get objective coverage from MoTD:

                These decisions have been sucking a lot of joy out of what really should be a good Arsenal season.

                A few debatable or wrong calls against us is normal but we've suffered a number of bizarre and unorthodox calls that are hard to explain except by way of tinfoil hat thinking.

                Panda itā€™s just authority dick sucking

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                  • Post #125

                  Panda Does anyone know what is going on with Sky and the refs? Why do they keep backing their dreadful decisions?

                  It's every game now since they got their ref show. They're doing it right now on 2 decisions not given to Fulham.

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                    awooga83 I get the ball hit his head but Saliba still made contact with their player after the ball is gone.

                    Making contact is not a foul. The Lamptey decision was bad as well, as was the Odegaard handball. Refs were against Klopp so they helped us out last season. He's gone now.