A scrappy crappy match, both teams and officials were bellow par.
Notts are in a relegation fight ( unless or until they get a points deduction). They came to play the way they did and the ref played into their hands. It doesn't bother me what nationality the coach is but ones that use that "anti-football" approach, I don't like. I don't like leaving my nice warm house to watch it and I don't enjoy watching it on the tv, in my nice warm house. The thing is, Nuno's job is keeping them up, not entertaining me and the Good Lady. A late winner is always sweeter against teams like that but after Philip's red card it was unlikely. I don't think raking the lad's achilles was intentional but the foul was, obviously. Had he only been booked, I feel VAR would have interfered and he would have been off anyway. Christie's dead leg also had a detrimental affect on us.
I think the ref was poor and we've had ones like that before against teams like Notts and it just helps ruin the match as a spectacle. She was booed by both sets of fans, obviously more by us than them but she looked out of her depth. Also I noticed she nearly collided with one of our players during the match, Prem' refs very rarely do. She's got a lot to learn, and I hope she does. She was inconspicuous against QPR, I hope she can be a top referee. But she's going to need support and help from the Ref's union to stop her becoming a bette noir for women refs. They need to be sure she's up to the tasks they set her, not rush her elevation. That performance in a bigger, televised match will finish her career and set back women refs for years.
Last couple of matches the player look a little jaded, not much but enough to stop us winning either. The way we've played since "it's clicked" under Andoni has moved us from a team people target as a "winnable" to a "stop them winning". I have every confidence AI and the players will adapt. As fans we're a tad disappointed to "only" draw away to 6th place West Ham and draw at home with 10 men. We've come a long way, in a short time, and I feel we've not reached the upper limit yet : )
Ps I've met hundreds , if not thousands, of football supporters and I can't remember any of them being "pigsh*t ignorant". I would say most are the exact opposite. People that spout bullsh*t and bollo*ks with self assured authority having not been anywhere near watching the match, now that's a different shovel of pigsh*t ignorance : )
pps all the booing and abuse directed towards the ref, from where I was in the North Stand, wasn't gender based. It was "not fit to referee" based : )
Notts are in a relegation fight ( unless or until they get a points deduction). They came to play the way they did and the ref played into their hands. It doesn't bother me what nationality the coach is but ones that use that "anti-football" approach, I don't like. I don't like leaving my nice warm house to watch it and I don't enjoy watching it on the tv, in my nice warm house. The thing is, Nuno's job is keeping them up, not entertaining me and the Good Lady. A late winner is always sweeter against teams like that but after Philip's red card it was unlikely. I don't think raking the lad's achilles was intentional but the foul was, obviously. Had he only been booked, I feel VAR would have interfered and he would have been off anyway. Christie's dead leg also had a detrimental affect on us.
I think the ref was poor and we've had ones like that before against teams like Notts and it just helps ruin the match as a spectacle. She was booed by both sets of fans, obviously more by us than them but she looked out of her depth. Also I noticed she nearly collided with one of our players during the match, Prem' refs very rarely do. She's got a lot to learn, and I hope she does. She was inconspicuous against QPR, I hope she can be a top referee. But she's going to need support and help from the Ref's union to stop her becoming a bette noir for women refs. They need to be sure she's up to the tasks they set her, not rush her elevation. That performance in a bigger, televised match will finish her career and set back women refs for years.
Last couple of matches the player look a little jaded, not much but enough to stop us winning either. The way we've played since "it's clicked" under Andoni has moved us from a team people target as a "winnable" to a "stop them winning". I have every confidence AI and the players will adapt. As fans we're a tad disappointed to "only" draw away to 6th place West Ham and draw at home with 10 men. We've come a long way, in a short time, and I feel we've not reached the upper limit yet : )
Ps I've met hundreds , if not thousands, of football supporters and I can't remember any of them being "pigsh*t ignorant". I would say most are the exact opposite. People that spout bullsh*t and bollo*ks with self assured authority having not been anywhere near watching the match, now that's a different shovel of pigsh*t ignorance : )
pps all the booing and abuse directed towards the ref, from where I was in the North Stand, wasn't gender based. It was "not fit to referee" based : )
