Paul Marsden

His performance was absolutely abysmal he was so out of his depth it was unbelievible. Even to the point of wasting time their keeper did everything in the book to waste time including standing like a statue pointing his finger at a fan for throwing the ball back at him.

The ref lost control of the game.

Even at the end it was Macca that had to stop Bishop and Cook causing a riot with our fans in the lower findus.

They were gesturing and shouting abuse at the fans inciting trouble the stewards had their hands full keeping the peace the ref was nowhere in sight.

Quoted from RichMariner

Who'd be a referee? I wouldn't.

Don't get me wrong, I think Paul Marsden's performance was abysmal. But the lack of quality is probably down to a lack of people wanting to become a referee.

The EFL promoted this lad from non-league last season. He's clearly not good enough, yet he's into his second season as an EFL official. If there were more referees knocking about, and more to choose from, you'd be able to find better.

I was at Mickleover Sports v Scarborough Athletic on Saturday. Mickleover had a certain Lee Hughes in their line up who scored the only goal but the referee had a great game. Explaining decisions, overruling his linesman correctly and stamping down on dissent with bookings.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I was at Mickleover Sports v Scarborough Athletic on Saturday. Mickleover had a certain Lee Hughes in their line up who scored the only goal but the referee had a great game. Explaining decisions, overruling his linesman correctly and stamping down on dissent with bookings.

Failing to get a point at least was down to our own incompetence but the failure of all four officials to work as a team was striking. The non corner, time wasting, dirty tricks, Bishop's tirades and crowd baiting (sadly excused by Buckley), sub tackling Hess, shirt pulling etc. should all have been flagged by either assistants or 4th official.
Green should know better. His booking was for several minor offences and constant back chat achieving naff all. Mansfield were far more schooled in the dark arts.

Quoted from Croxton

Failing to get a point at least was down to our own incompetence but the failure of all four officials to work as a team was striking. The non corner, time wasting, dirty tricks, Bishop's tirades and crowd baiting (sadly excused by Buckley), sub tackling Hess, shirt pulling etc. should all have been flagged by either assistants or 4th official.
Green should know better. His booking was for several minor offences and constant back chat achieving naff all. Mansfield were far more schooled in the dark arts.

Was the Green booking for dissent then?

I thought it was because his shirt had got tangled up in the Mansfield players hands which meant that unlike his Stags team mates he wasn't able to roll around on the floor but was pulled along behind Green.... an obstruction of sorts