You can’t keep on blaming the officials all of the time –

You can’t keep on blaming the officials all of the time – City have not been good enough in their last two games.


Plus zero shots on goal by Cardiff in the last two games.



Posted on October 20, 2022


by The other Bob Wilson ( Paul Evans )


Okay, referee James Linington was, like so many of his EFL colleagues, crap, but Cardiff City we’re not good enough on Saturday when the officials were offered up as an excuse for defeat and they weren’t good enough tonight in losing 3-0 at QPR in a totally one sided encounter.

True, City had to play for more than seventy minutes with ten men as a consequence of more woeful officiating. However, the eighteen or so minutes when it was eleven against eleven saw City performing as poorly as at any time this season with the possible exception of the League Cup loss to Portsmouth.

The match was not much more than fifteen seconds old when Perry Ng, under no great pressure, carelessly miscontrolled a throw in and ended up having to give away a free kick on the edge of the penalty area. Ng became one of six Cardiff players to be shown a card by the fussy Mr Linington and his team were able to survive that early scare with no damage done.

In fact, for a very short while, it looked like City had recovered well from their sloppy start as Neils Nkounkou flashed a twenty five yard shot narrowly over and Ryan Wintle was not far away with an effort from a similar distance a few minutes later.

However, all that had happened was that City had condensed the sum total of their worthwhile attacking play into the opening ten minutes because there was nothing after that Wintle effort worth recording. The team which specialises in nil’s is really back on track after scoring in three successive games with a total of no goals and one effort on target in their last two games.

That on target figure should be two of course, but Bobby Madley ensured that it isn’t.The refereeing howler this time came at the other end of the pitch with a dubious penalty award and a ridiculous red card which I’ll come to later, but you couldn’t blame tonight’s ref for the panicky and error prone defending in those first twenty minutes or so.

QPR could easily have scored three during that time against a City side that, despite looking the same sort of soft touch as they were at Bristol City, Millwall and Huddersfield, were picking up cards at an alarming rate.

Jack Simpson was shown a red one for a foul which led to the penalty from which Rangers went ahead on eighteen minutes. Young forward Sinclair Armstrong burst between Cedric Kipre and Simpson and fell to the ground as the latter moved across to put in a tackle. There was some contact, but only from Simpson’s arm as far as I could see and it did not appear to be forceful enough to merit the sort of fall we saw from Armstrong.

However, I thought there was enough in it to merit an “I’ve seen them given” possible penalty ranking and so, although it looked soft to me, I wasn’t altogether surprised to see the spot kick. awarded.

Once I’d seen a replay though, I was convinced that the referee had got the red card decision wrong. I’d also say that I thought the laws of the game had been changed recently so that there is not the “double jeopardy” of a red card and the likely concession of a goal these days – the penalty is considered sufficient punishment with only a possible yellow card for the offender.

This was definitely yellow card territory at worst for me under the new interpretation I mentioned earlier. As Lyndon Dykes placed his penalty well enough to just beat Ryan Allsop’s dive to his right though,plans were already being made in the City dug out as to how we could go about trying to make up for Simpson’s absence.

As happens so often when a team goes down to ten men following the dismissal of a defender, Mark Hudson opted to shore up an under manned defence with the introduction of Curtis Nelson – Romaine Sawyers made way for him. I would have taken Sheyi Ojo off myself because we needed to keep it three against three in midfield as we were struggling to cope when there were equal numbers in the middle of the park before the sending off.

Instead, we went with two against a good Rangers midfield trio and, in doing so, we consigned ourselves to an evening of very little possession and keeping our defensive shape as damage limitation became the order of the day.

It could be said that the match was over as a meaningful contest once Dykes scored his second in the thirty third minute with a simple close range finish as Manchester United loanee Ethan Laird featured prominently down the right. Laird won his attack v defence dual with Nkounkou who was his usual mixture of defensive liability and exciting ball carrier.

N’Kounkou’s best attacking moment in the first half was when he went on a long run past four or five opponents and slipped a good ball through to Ojo I think it was. It looked a promising situation for City, but Linington brought play back to award us a worthless free kick and issue a yellow card to the QPR offender. This was one of sixteen fouls committed by the home side compared to our eleven and yet Mr Linington saw fit to give us five yellow cards and one red one compared to the home side’s two yellows.

There’s not much I want to say about the rest of the game. All City had to offer through the second half was dogged defence and they did this to pretty good effect (certainly better than they did while it was eleven v eleven).

Rangers scored once more when Ken Paal guided a header from beyond the far post over Allsop and into the corner of the net. I thought there was a slight element of luck to it, but, truthfully, it seemed to me that Rangers could have scored five or six if they’d wanted to.

Away from the first team, there were a couple of 1-0 wins over the past few days. The first came when the women’s team beat Aberystwyth Town 1-0 thanks to a first half goal by Rhianne Oakley, thereby maintaining their 100 per cent record at the top of the table. The Under 21s were 1-0 winners at Watford thanks to Raheem Conte’s late goal and they are now third in their league after three consecutive wins – although, just as with the other two, it was hardly the most convincing of performances. Still, what would the first team and their caretaker manager give for an unconvincing 1-0 win at the moment?

Finally, as has been the habit at the start of a new season in recent years, can I ask readers if they’re willing to make a donation towards the running costs of the blog. I say running costs towards the blog, but, that’s not really true this time because this year any donations will go towards costs incurred in the production and publication of the book I aim to have out for sale by October.

As mentioned this time last year, I decided to do another review of a season to follow on from Real Madrid and all that which was about 1970/71. This one is about the 1975/76 season and will be called Tony Evans walks on water. I finished writing the book over the weekend and now it’s a question of tidying it up, proof reading, inserting a few photos and designing a cover before sending it off for printing.

As always, the blog will still be free to read for anyone who chooses not to make a donation towards its running costs and, apart from the one in the top right hand corner which is to do with Google Ads, you will never have to bother about installing an ad blocker to read this site because there will never be any.

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You can’t keep on blaming the officials all of the time – City have not been good enough in their last two games.



Plus zero shots on goal by Cardiff in the last two games.



Posted on October 20, 2022


by The other Bob Wilson ( Paul Evans )




Okay, referee James Linington was, like so many of his EFL colleagues, crap, but Cardiff City we’re not good enough on Saturday when the officials were offered up as an excuse for defeat and they weren’t good enough tonight in losing 3-0 at QPR in a totally one sided encounter.

True, City had to play for more than seventy minutes with ten men as a consequence of more woeful officiating. However, the eighteen or so minutes when it was eleven against eleven saw City performing as poorly as at any time this season with the possible exception of the League Cup loss to Portsmouth.

The match was not much more than fifteen seconds old when Perry Ng, under no great pressure, carelessly miscontrolled a throw in and ended up having to give away a free kick on the edge of the penalty area. Ng became one of six Cardiff players to be shown a card by the fussy Mr Linington and his team were able to survive that early scare with no damage done.

In fact, for a very short while, it looked like City had recovered well from their sloppy start as Neils Nkounkou flashed a twenty five yard shot narrowly over and Ryan Wintle was not far away with an effort from a similar distance a few minutes later.

However, all that had happened was that City had condensed the sum total of their worthwhile attacking play into the opening ten minutes because there was nothing after that Wintle effort worth recording. The team which specialises in nil’s is really back on track after scoring in three successive games with a total of no goals and one effort on target in their last two games.

That on target figure should be two of course, but Bobby Madley ensured that it isn’t.The refereeing howler this time came at the other end of the pitch with a dubious penalty award and a ridiculous red card which I’ll come to later, but you couldn’t blame tonight’s ref for the panicky and error prone defending in those first twenty minutes or so.

QPR could easily have scored three during that time against a City side that, despite looking the same sort of soft touch as they were at Bristol City, Millwall and Huddersfield, were picking up cards at an alarming rate.

Jack Simpson was shown a red one for a foul which led to the penalty from which Rangers went ahead on eighteen minutes. Young forward Sinclair Armstrong burst between Cedric Kipre and Simpson and fell to the ground as the latter moved across to put in a tackle. There was some contact, but only from Simpson’s arm as far as I could see and it did not appear to be forceful enough to merit the sort of fall we saw from Armstrong.

However, I thought there was enough in it to merit an “I’ve seen them given” possible penalty ranking and so, although it looked soft to me, I wasn’t altogether surprised to see the spot kick. awarded.

Once I’d seen a replay though, I was convinced that the referee had got the red card decision wrong. I’d also say that I thought the laws of the game had been changed recently so that there is not the “double jeopardy” of a red card and the likely concession of a goal these days – the penalty is considered sufficient punishment with only a possible yellow card for the offender.

This was definitely yellow card territory at worst for me under the new interpretation I mentioned earlier. As Lyndon Dykes placed his penalty well enough to just beat Ryan Allsop’s dive to his right though,plans were already being made in the City dug out as to how we could go about trying to make up for Simpson’s absence.

As happens so often when a team goes down to ten men following the dismissal of a defender, Mark Hudson opted to shore up an under manned defence with the introduction of Curtis Nelson – Romaine Sawyers made way for him. I would have taken Sheyi Ojo off myself because we needed to keep it three against three in midfield as we were struggling to cope when there were equal numbers in the middle of the park before the sending off.

Instead, we went with two against a good Rangers midfield trio and, in doing so, we consigned ourselves to an evening of very little possession and keeping our defensive shape as damage limitation became the order of the day.

It could be said that the match was over as a meaningful contest once Dykes scored his second in the thirty third minute with a simple close range finish as Manchester United loanee Ethan Laird featured prominently down the right. Laird won his attack v defence dual with Nkounkou who was his usual mixture of defensive liability and exciting ball carrier.

N’Kounkou’s best attacking moment in the first half was when he went on a long run past four or five opponents and slipped a good ball through to Ojo I think it was. It looked a promising situation for City, but Linington brought play back to award us a worthless free kick and issue a yellow card to the QPR offender. This was one of sixteen fouls committed by the home side compared to our eleven and yet Mr Linington saw fit to give us five yellow cards and one red one compared to the home side’s two yellows.

There’s not much I want to say about the rest of the game. All City had to offer through the second half was dogged defence and they did this to pretty good effect (certainly better than they did while it was eleven v eleven).

Rangers scored once more when Ken Paal guided a header from beyond the far post over Allsop and into the corner of the net. I thought there was a slight element of luck to it, but, truthfully, it seemed to me that Rangers could have scored five or six if they’d wanted to.

Away from the first team, there were a couple of 1-0 wins over the past few days. The first came when the women’s team beat Aberystwyth Town 1-0 thanks to a first half goal by Rhianne Oakley, thereby maintaining their 100 per cent record at the top of the table. The Under 21s were 1-0 winners at Watford thanks to Raheem Conte’s late goal and they are now third in their league after three consecutive wins – although, just as with the other two, it was hardly the most convincing of performances. Still, what would the first team and their caretaker manager give for an unconvincing 1-0 win at the moment?

Finally, as has been the habit at the start of a new season in recent years, can I ask readers if they’re willing to make a donation towards the running costs of the blog. I say running costs towards the blog, but, that’s not really true this time because this year any donations will go towards costs incurred in the production and publication of the book I aim to have out for sale by October.

As mentioned this time last year, I decided to do another review of a season to follow on from Real Madrid and all that which was about 1970/71. This one is about the 1975/76 season and will be called Tony Evans walks on water. I finished writing the book over the weekend and now it’s a question of tidying it up, proof reading, inserting a few photos and designing a cover before sending it off for printing.

As always, the blog will still be free to read for anyone who chooses not to make a donation towards its running costs and, apart from the one in the top right hand corner which is to do with Google Ads, you will never have to bother about installing an ad blocker to read this site because there will never be any.

Donations can be made through Patreon, PayPal, by bank transfer, cheque, Standing Order/Direct Debit and cash, e-mail me at paul.evans8153@hotmail.com for further payment details.

Can I end by thanking all of you who read and contribute towards the blog in the Feedback section, but, in particular, a big thank you to all who have donated in the past and continue to do so now

That was a good read.
As frustrating as it may be, we would have been beaten last night and we weren't good enough to beat Coventry.

So what that we had a bad 18 mins before the awful decision? It was 0-0. How many times do we make a great start but go onto lose. We were still in the game and even if just a penalty was awarded we'd have been in it but yet again, the referee lets us down. It must be seasons worth of awful luck with decisions and they rarely are repaid to us. Fed up.

I do agree with blaming the officials is a little boring

Its the same for all teams in the league and these decisions should even out over a course of the season

The standard of referring is very poor in the league

We have gone 2 games with zero shots on target.
Nothing has changed.we need a complete fresh coaching set up.asap

2 bad refs. But the last performance was poor.
We resorted to long ball.

Hudsons taken us backwards

Good summing up of situation with team at moment.... penalty no surprise but begs question how you can rugby tackle at a corner be ok but put finger on player in open play inside area and it's a pen? As for red card double jeopardy rule the question is did Simpson make an attempt to play the ball if he did it's a yellow if he didn't it's a red thats the criteria for double jeopardy rule .... to me he didn't attempt play ball so while penalty was rediculas decision red card was correct in interpretation of rules.

The Ref’s decision ultimately cost us the chance of a draw against Coventry, even though they were the better of two bad teams. Although we started off terrible yesterday, the Ref finished off any chance of us getting into the game. I’m not saying we would have won the game, but when a decision so bad, and so early on goes against you, it’s just an uphill battle after that. Regardless of the bad luck, this is one of the most average Cardiff teams in some time, with no real stand out performers. If, and when we do get another manager, he needs to be a miracle worker for us to have any kind of success with this team.

The Ref’s decision ultimately cost us the chance of a draw against Coventry, even though they were the better of two bad teams. Although we started off terrible yesterday, the Ref finished off any chance of us getting into the game. I’m not saying we would have won the game, but when a decision so bad, and so early on goes against you, it’s just an uphill battle after that. Regardless of the bad luck, this is one of the most average Cardiff teams in some time, with no real stand out performers. If, and when we do get another manager, he needs to be a miracle worker for us to have any kind of success with this team.

Think people forget no matter how bad team is playing it doesn't mean they'll lose game? So Hudson is right in what he says about ref decisions but still doesnt hide the fact performances Saturday and last night was poor and needs a rethink on Sunday otherwise can see another 3/4nil loss......

We have gone 2 games with zero shots on target.
Nothing has changed.we need a complete fresh coaching set up.asap

We had one shot on target on Saturday but that prick of a ref managed to conjure up some non existent reason to rule it out.

We have gone 2 games with zero shots on target.
Nothing has changed.we need a complete fresh coaching set up.asap

We had one shot on target on Saturday but that prick of a ref managed to conjure up some non existent reason to rule it out.

Both decisions effected both games cannot hide from that fact.... at 0-0 still in game regardless of how badly we were or how good they were..... we absolutely battered Preston but they managed to draw game ... football result is determined after full time whistle not before... but referee decisions do effect game as last two games show.

The word "Keep" - is this based on the last 2 games ??? - If so most would say the Robinson goal should have stood

Well seeing as Simpson's red card has been rescinded that is one KEEP on blaming the official we can't be critised for

No cant keep blaming ref decisions... but in these cases both decisions did effect game and nobody can say otherwise? Robinson goal would been equaliser so game effected... other night 0-0 player wrongly sent off playing with ten men does effect game so yes can blame referee decisions for results unquestionably.

The whole "bad decisions even themselves out over a season" is absolute garbage too. In the last few years we have been on the recieving end of awful decisions way more than benefitting from them.
We will never know what would have happened Weds without the sending off, same as last week v Coventry if the goal had stood does it give us a boost for us to go on and win? If that Chelsea offside was seen, would we have lost or would we have kicked on and stayed up? There are no answers to these questions and the reason for that is poor refereeing decisions so we can keep blaming referees for as long as they keep making ridiculous errors.

Referees make mistakes the same as players and Managers but they are the only non biased person in a Football stadium! Being a referee is much more difficult than being a player,I’ve been both! If anyone on here thinks they can do a better job than the current referees apply to be one as there is a shortest mainly due to the insults they get.I know that everyone who has been a referee respects the person in the middle because they realise how difficult it is! Stop blaming the referees rather than the Manager and players!

The whole "bad decisions even themselves out over a season" is absolute garbage too. In the last few years we have been on the recieving end of awful decisions way more than benefitting from them.
We will never know what would have happened Weds without the sending off, same as last week v Coventry if the goal had stood does it give us a boost for us to go on and win? If that Chelsea offside was seen, would we have lost or would we have kicked on and stayed up? There are no answers to these questions and the reason for that is poor refereeing decisions so we can keep blaming referees for as long as they keep making ridiculous errors.

do we use poor refereeing decisions to make excuses for bad performances I dont think we do... but we are entitled to use poor decision making as a response to the result... last two games classic example goal allowed sat its 1-1 other night was 0-0 so cannot tell me those two decisions didn't effect result of either game?

The whole "bad decisions even themselves out over a season" is absolute garbage too. In the last few years we have been on the recieving end of awful decisions way more than benefitting from them.
We will never know what would have happened Weds without the sending off, same as last week v Coventry if the goal had stood does it give us a boost for us to go on and win? If that Chelsea offside was seen, would we have lost or would we have kicked on and stayed up? There are no answers to these questions and the reason for that is poor refereeing decisions so we can keep blaming referees for as long as they keep making ridiculous errors.

do we use poor refereeing decisions to make excuses for bad performances I dont think we do... but we are entitled to use poor decision making as a response to the result... last two games classic example goal allowed sat its 1-1 other night was 0-0 so cannot tell me those two decisions didn't effect result of either game? Doesnt matter how badly we were playing the decisions did effect results

You can’t keep on blaming the officials all of the time – City have not been good enough in their last two games.


Plus zero shots on goal by Cardiff in the last two games.

I think you’ll find that against Coventry Cardiff had 11 shots of which 4 were on target
As for the “You can’t keep blaming the officials all the time” quote, the officials are not blamed all the time but the last two games they have cost us points as far as I’m concerned, they’ve been inept and don’t deserve to be anywhere near a football match tbh.
Yes Cardiff haven’t been that good the last two games but it can’t totally be blamed on that alone. If the ref hadn’t awarded a soft penalty which definitely wasn’t plus sent Simpson off then it’s a totally different game.

Always a good write up from Paul and he's usually on the money, I wish he'd post on here. WalesOnline should have him as their fan columnist instead of Scott Johnson.

Can't keep blaming officials all the time, but that doesn't mean bad decisions that impact a game should go unmentioned either...

In the case of the last two matches we can 100% point to completely incorrect decisions that have had an impact on the game.

Against Coventry a perfectly good goal is disallowed.

The argument that the Coventry player was not in control of the ball, is a new one on me, but perhaps the introduction of a new rule i've missed, but even if that were the case the logical application of such a rule would suggest that the offside ruling should be made at the last point the ball was played by a player in control of the ball - and if you look back at the replay Robinson is on side as the ball is played back into the area (before the Cov player mis controls it).

So either way the goal should have stood. Obviously an equaliser changes the flow and momentum of the game and either team could go on to win it.

Against, QPR, again as others have said, evidently a soft penalty and clearly not a red-card as it has been rescinded.

However, I've seen a lot of people across social media stating the decision didn't impact the result, QPR were well on top anyways and would have won etc, etc etc.

Unless they have a crystal ball and the winning lottery numbers that is all absolute nonsense. Anything could have happened, that's why football is so exciting in the first place.

In fairness, to Paul (Evans AKA the Other Bob Wilson) the article is a lot more balanced that the headline suggests, and I do enjoy reading his blog. Indeed, as he points out himself, even if the match were weighted towards the Hoops in the opening exchanges, we had our moments.

In fact, for a very short while, it looked like City had recovered well from their sloppy start as Neils Nkounkou flashed a twenty five yard shot narrowly over and Ryan Wintle was not far away with an effort from a similar distance a few minutes later.

However, all that had happened was that City had condensed the sum total of their worthwhile attacking play into the opening ten minutes because there was nothing after that Wintle effort worth recording

So, lets just stop and pick through this a second...

If as Paul suggests City had condensed all their attacking play into the first ten minutes and the penalty/red card then the assumption that QPR would have gone on to win this easily that seems the undercurrent of the headline, if not necessarily the article, is based on what a whopping 8 minutes of football?

I know Paul is well respected for knowing his apples when it comes to the game, and his observation of perhaps Ojo being the better option to change than Sawyers is an excellent example of this and one I agree with, but I'd question even Pep Guardiola to make a decent prediction of a result based on 8 minutes.

And i'm not just picking out Paul here for the inference in the title of the article, I've seen the same comment echoed across social media as well.

Yes QPR were the better team in the opening exchanges - they are top of the league and playing at home, they are a decent side this season - but the better team doesn't always win. How many times have you seen City (or anyone else for that matter) get battered all game and then nick it at the death. West Ham away when Kenny Miller scored is the first game that springs to mind but there are literally hundreds of examples of teams getting all three points and being outplayed by better opposition.

But chasing the game at one nil down and with a man less for 70 minutes is of course going to effectively kill the game barring a miracle.

It looked a promising situation for City, but Linington brought play back to award us a worthless free kick and issue a yellow card to the QPR offender. This was one of sixteen fouls committed by the home side compared to our eleven and yet Mr Linington saw fit to give us five yellow cards and one red one compared to the home side’s two yellows.

This is also worth picking out of the article, a good observation by Paul and perhaps needs more of a spotlight on it. While the penalty/red card was undeniably an awful decision, the ref was at least consistent in showing bias throughout the game - this level of inconsistent refereeing simply isn't acceptable at this level.

In fairness to Paul as I mentioned before, his article is more balanced than his clickbait headline, but to infer Hudson is hiding behind bad decisions (as that headline does) after two massive (and 100%) incorrect calls, two decisions that were both objectively wrong and both changed the course of the respective games is incredibly unfair.

Can't keep blaming officials all the time, but that doesn't mean bad decisions that impact a game should go unmentioned either...

In the case of the last two matches we can 100% point to completely incorrect decisions that have had an impact on the game.

Against Coventry a perfectly good goal is disallowed.

The argument that the Coventry player was not in control of the ball, is a new one on me, but perhaps the introduction of a new rule i've missed, but even if that were the case the logical application of such a rule would suggest that the offside ruling should be made at the last point the ball was played by a player in control of the ball - and if you look back at the replay Robinson is on side as the ball is played back into the area (before the Cov player mis controls it).

So either way the goal should have stood. Obviously an equaliser changes the flow and momentum of the game and either team could go on to win it.

Against, QPR, again as others have said, evidently a soft penalty and clearly not a red-card as it has been rescinded.

However, I've seen a lot of people across social media stating the decision didn't impact the result, QPR were well on top anyways and would have won etc, etc etc.

Unless they have a crystal ball and the winning lottery numbers that is all absolute nonsense. Anything could have happened, that's why football is so exciting in the first place.

In fairness, to Paul (Evans AKA the Other Bob Wilson) the article is a lot more balanced that the headline suggests, and I do enjoy reading his blog. Indeed, as he points out himself, even if the match were weighted towards the Hoops in the opening exchanges, we had our moments.

In fact, for a very short while, it looked like City had recovered well from their sloppy start as Neils Nkounkou flashed a twenty five yard shot narrowly over and Ryan Wintle was not far away with an effort from a similar distance a few minutes later.

However, all that had happened was that City had condensed the sum total of their worthwhile attacking play into the opening ten minutes because there was nothing after that Wintle effort worth recording

So, lets just stop and pick through this a second...

If as Paul suggests City had condensed all their attacking play into the first ten minutes and the penalty/red card then the assumption that QPR would have gone on to win this easily that seems the undercurrent of the headline, if not necessarily the article, is based on what a whopping 8 minutes of football?

I know Paul is well respected for knowing his apples when it comes to the game, and his observation of perhaps Ojo being the better option to change than Sawyers is an excellent example of this and one I agree with, but I'd question even Pep Guardiola to make a decent prediction of a result based on 8 minutes.

And i'm not just picking out Paul here for the inference in the title of the article, I've seen the same comment echoed across social media as well.

Yes QPR were the better team in the opening exchanges - they are top of the league and playing at home, they are a decent side this season - but the better team doesn't always win. How many times have you seen City (or anyone else for that matter) get battered all game and then nick it at the death. West Ham away when Kenny Miller scored is the first game that springs to mind but there are literally hundreds of examples of teams getting all three points and being outplayed by better opposition.

But chasing the game at one nil down and with a man less for 70 minutes is of course going to effectively kill the game barring a miracle.

It looked a promising situation for City, but Linington brought play back to award us a worthless free kick and issue a yellow card to the QPR offender. This was one of sixteen fouls committed by the home side compared to our eleven and yet Mr Linington saw fit to give us five yellow cards and one red one compared to the home side’s two yellows.

This is also worth picking out of the article, a good observation by Paul and perhaps needs more of a spotlight on it. While the penalty/red card was undeniably an awful decision, the ref was at least consistent in showing bias throughout the game - this level of inconsistent refereeing simply isn't acceptable at this level.

In fairness to Paul as I mentioned before, his article is more balanced than his clickbait headline, but to infer Hudson is hiding behind bad decisions (as that headline does) after two massive (and 100%) incorrect calls, two decisions that were both objectively wrong and both changed the course of the respective games is incredibly unfair.

Superb post and well thought out

Cant blame referee today do blame Robinson for being stupid..