EPL: Referee, You Can't Be Serious?

* the picture is of the third goal scored by Bendtner for Arsenal V's Hull City. How can the referee's assistant not see the offside withthe white line to help him?

Well another game lost and my beloved Tigers are still on 27-points. Still six points off the relegation zone. Still getting on the wrong end of poor refereeing.

I know that there will be a cry of fans all over the World shouting that it happens to us all not just your team, one of our colleagues who is an arsenal fan told us about a major decision going against them in the Champion's League Semi Final in abhijeet prabhakar game review comment.

I hear you all telling me to stop crying about it and get on with the rest of the season. The problem is that it seems to be happening far too much this season so far.

Since mid December the officials have made a few mistakes that have seriously gone against the Tigers. Gerrard's brace of goals for Liverpool, the second bookable offence for Ricketts that left us a man down and chasing the game, the penalty that never was against Aston Villa, Felliani clearly off side to score for Everton, when he should have been sent off for elbowing both Turner and Zayette.

Now you could say that things like this happen all the time in every game, and I would agree 100 percent with you on that, but it is the nature of these decisions. The poor calling of the referees in these cases have all changed the games, and cost Hull City.

Let's go back to the first one on the list; Gerrard's two goals. In both of those incidents the referee should have blown for fouls on Michael Turner, the Hull City centre half. If the referee, Mr. Wiley, had blown for the clear fouls then neither of Liverpool's goals would have stood.

Ricketts' second bookable offense was a little piece of amateur dramatics by the Sunderland player who had not been touched and milked the supposed foul for all it was worth. If I was in the American Academy I would be awarding him an Oscar for the performance.

The penalty that never was, is the worst of these as it demonstrates ineptness of the rules rather than just bad judgement. To award a penalty then to take it away after consulting with you linesmen is commendable, but if the assistant is 40 yards further away from the incident than the referee and has discussed it with the fourth official, it strikes me as a breach of the FA's own rules. Especially if the fourth official has seen replays of the incident.

Felliani was walking a tight rope from the kick off. He was one yellow card away from getting a ban which would see him missing out on two crucial fixtures for Everton against their close rivals Liverpool.

Within minutes he had elbowed Michael Turner in the face, a straight red card offence, he then did the same to Kamil Zayette. He got neither a red card or even a single yellow card.

The referee proceeded to warn him and counted on his hand five incidents where he had made bad fouls but still never gave him a card. The fouls continued and the referee warned again counting up to eight clear fouls this time and yet again never gave him a card.

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