Voice_of_Reason":pcx1ndnn said:
Not always true that statement is it Martyn.
How many times have we seen matches where a player makes a foul, not a bad foul, not dangerous, not malicious, just beaten a fraction by speed, its on the halfway line no immediate danger, everyone in the ground accepts its a foul, but the referee brandishes a very harsh yellow card. The rest of the game is then played knowing that almost every foul has the potential to be a yellow. The crowd and players demand yellows for things that really aren't but because they have witnessed a poor decision, it gets played on.
This particular referee in question i dont really remember , which is normally a good sign. I seem to remember the game as a very long drawn out frustrating afternoon (i dare say that may have impacted - wrongly - on the ref's mark) - my only recollection of the game (other than the late goal) was Garita coming on for the last 20-30 minutes and looking a real handful and leaving thinking we'd got ourselves a gem - how easily fooled can one person be!
As a ref, the game should always be about the players. The ref is only there to enforce the laws of the game, but that is down to the players.
As a ref, at semi-pro level, you can go on a run of games, where you hardly have any cautions at all (down to the players), then you have a run of games where you have loads of cards (down to the players).
