Ref

I remember David Pye once describing Stuart Attwell as "attention seeking" in a Telegraph match report. The same description is by far the most polite to apply to today's official. Just glad we got at least a bit of justice at the death.

I took some consolation in telling the useless tw@t exactly what I thought of him as he squirmed off the pitch. Not big or clever, admittedly, but neither was his performance…

Like everyone else at the game today I thought the ref was atrocious.
When I watched the game again on tv having recorded it I thought there was one 50 50 penalty and all the pushing and shoving in the box was what you see on tv every week.

There must be better refs out there who should be promoted and many in this league that it is obvious are not good enough and should be demoted or at the very least given some training to improve there performances. The National League should take responsibility.

This was the worst referee I have seen in my 31 years following Town.

https://twitter.com/oliverswaby1/status/1478185915747115010?s=12

I’ve only seen the snippets on Twitter, but bloody hell!

Having refereed for a number of years, albeit given it up now, you still retain some idea of the basics.

The referee yesterday was bizarre. Efete went on a run, was tugged, beat the man but lost the ball Becauee of a heavy touch and it was brought back for a foul…decent enough decision. Our front man is wrestled all over the place and gets nothing.

I don’t blame the referee for conceding a goal from our own throw in and the keeper pushing out in to the path of a striker but, you have to wonder what on earth game he was watching at times.

Quoted from aldi_01

Having refereed for a number of years, albeit given it up now, you still retain some idea of the basics.

The referee yesterday was bizarre. Efete went on a run, was tugged, beat the man but lost the ball Becauee of a heavy touch and it was brought back for a foul…decent enough decision. Our front man is wrestled all over the place and gets nothing.

I don’t blame the referee for conceding a goal from our own throw in and the keeper pushing out in to the path of a striker but, you have to wonder what on earth game he was watching at times.

I didn't see the Fox arrest (Main Stand supports) but I also thought he missed an obvious booking for Maguire-Drew in the first half when he lunged at their player from behind after losing the ball on the edge of the box. Some referees would have sent Waterfall off too. Correct decision to book Waterfall as Efete was next to him fortunately.

Quoted from aldi_01

Having refereed for a number of years, albeit given it up now, you still retain some idea of the basics.

The referee yesterday was bizarre. Efete went on a run, was tugged, beat the man but lost the ball Becauee of a heavy touch and it was brought back for a foul…decent enough decision. Our front man is wrestled all over the place and gets nothing.

I don’t blame the referee for conceding a goal from our own throw in and the keeper pushing out in to the path of a striker but, you have to wonder what on earth game he was watching at times.

I didn't think that was a foul on Efete in real time or on the replay.

The Pearson foul was probably a penalty, although that goes on all the time with nothing given. The fact that he spoke to them several times and it still happened is what makes it a worse decision. That one on Fox is unbelievable, he's fouling him constantly for about 10 seconds.

Same kind of offences as when we won the pen against Braintree when Amond stepped up.  I think that one was harder to see but the officials were doing their job