That prat Stroud

He can't be that bad to be given the job at this level !...are they not All bad anyway if they give an opposing team a decision ?
Many football fans are just so dense and their minds are polarised in just one direction from kick- off to last whistle.

Players in general, in this era are their own enemies with their antics. Refs are just p*ssed off with it all..
It is unequivocally true, that bias and perception give us an unfair starting point. However he did seem poor. That said Zemura should go for throwing the ball away for example.

Regardless we had 3 times as many free kicks against us. Forest away first ten mins was unbelievable, in a similar vein.

I know I am ridiculously biased, but I also feel I can be subjective and Stroud was appalling.
 
Keith Stroud has had plenty of previous with QPR.

Some of the match reports involving Stroud are on a separate thread on Loftforwords and are priceless. Some of the most critical. funniest and sharpest comments about a referee that I have ever read.

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footb...stroud-in-charge-of-bournemouth-trip--referee

"The EFL talks a lot about “protecting the integrity of the competition” when it suits them, but it’s entirely compromised by having a lunatic like this pissflapping around for his own merriment and the general annoyance and bemusement of everybody else. ":grinning:
 
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Refs have to declare which team they support, presumably at the start of their career, and they aren't then allowed to ref that team. I think. Pretty sure it was something like that.

He's a Luton fan so no connection to the club. If you start keeping refs away from matches of places they've lived it'd get challenging very quickly.
Might be a good idea if they didn't ref matches in the league that their team is in. so, in Strouds case, no Championship games for him.
 
I don't think I've seen a more biased inept performance from an official for many many a year.
Was he trying to play centre stage on TV or just trying to let QPR win. Some of those free kick decisions. Wow. Hopefully he was being biased because if that was his ' normal' standard of officiating it was bl00dy dreadful
Totally agree - he clearly liked being centre of attention - interesting that we no longer print the names of the officials on the back of our official match day programme - is this because the club knows they are usually pretty awful and doesn't want to share their names (?) ...... seriously, why have they stopped giving the names of the officials ??????
 
Back in the 90's I lined on the Wessex League for Stroudie quite a few times.

It was the norm for the ref & two assistants to come from the same area & in those days he lived in Ensbury Park, I lived in Talbot Village & he would pick me & the other linesman up & we'd travel to games together. He worked for an Electrical wholesaler in those days.

Always thought he was a pretty decent bloke & ref to be honest and have always enjoyed seeing people from the local area getting promoted to national level.
 
After watching Stroud's inept performance on Tuesday night, I've been invited by a Millwall supporting friend to watch them play Coventry tomorrow at the Den. The referee - Keith Stroud :(
 
Refs have to declare which team they support, presumably at the start of their career, and they aren't then allowed to ref that team. I think. Pretty sure it was something like that.

He's a Luton fan so no connection to the club. If you start keeping refs away from matches of places they've lived it'd get challenging very quickly.

How did Howard Webb get away with it for so long? :grinning:
 
Many of us have other teams that we look for when results come in, I have at least 3. Surely the same applies to officials, could the weaker ones be tempted to show bias? Personally I doubt it, but it could happen I suppose.
 
Stroudy eh ...what a bad b@stard !

He goes straight into my Fav 1st eleven
..no particular order.

Pulis
Dyche
Yems.
Surridge
Stroud (C)
Gosling
Tindall
Woodgate
S.Matthews
J. Greaves
G.Best

Sub's:
A Full Stoke Pub.


That little lot should rack me up a few effing 'Ignores '...oh yes please Batman.
 

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