Referee Watch 2026/27

Referee Watch 2026/27

One of those refs who infuriates all around him by appearing to guess his decisions a lot of the time, as well as blowing his whistle very late based on players appealing or screaming as they fall over. Ball watching rather than really scanning what's actually happening.

He looks like he has no confidence in the decisions he himself makes, and makes calls based on balance rather than evidence.

Weak. Also depressing that this is the pinnacle of refereeing.
 

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He never seemed to have a grip on the game. Let their antics go unpunished time and again. The amount of times the left back and Danso went down pounding the turf like they had a career ending injury then bounced back up with no attempt at feigning any ill effect from the challenge was laughable but enabled by such a weak and inconsistent referee.

I couldn’t argue with the penalty in real time - would like to see it again as everyone else around me was apologetic, so assume I’m wrong….
 

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So the refs performance today will be reviewed by a panel.

We won't hear anything unless he does a David Coote though?
 

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If anyone raises anything against the ref performance, they'll be penalised. The ref is immune though.
 

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It is very rare you will see / hear me berating refs. It is boring, often a function of not being objective and they have a hard job.

He seemed poor to me. He did seem to be that confident in his decisions. Almost seemed like 1-1 suited him.
 

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3 big decisions today:
1. Sunderland disallowed goal in first half - i think we're a bit fortunate there as Kelleher isn't getting close to that. But probably the right call as he's in the line of sight of the keeper.
2. Our disallowed goal - only seen the one replay but it looks harsh on us. Anthony seems to get to the ball at the same time as the keeper so how can he can have the ball in his control?
3. IMO this is clearer than the first two and it's a penalty for me and not great defending from KLP.
 

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Rob-BEE said:
3 big decisions today:
1. Sunderland disallowed goal in first half - i think we're a bit fortunate there as Kelleher isn't getting close to that. But probably the right call as he's in the line of sight of the keeper.
2. Our disallowed goal - only seen the one replay but it looks harsh on us. Anthony seems to get to the ball at the same time as the keeper so how can he can have the ball in his control?
3. IMO this is clearer than the first two and it's a penalty for me and not great defending from KLP.
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Of these three, did the on field "ref" get any of them wrong?
 

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Four points gone thanks to two of the most inept refs I've ever seen - one over confident and the other completely clueless. With so much at stake, how can these guys be such amateurs?
 

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" I wasn't bowled over with the officiating today, though, which I rarely say.

I don't tend to go on about officials too much. I will talk myself into trouble but I didn't like the flow of the game; there were incidents where it was not under control."

Keith reported by Sky.

Anybody who was at the match will know what he means.
 

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Cowardly performance. Best part of 40 fouls given and I actually thought there were some fouls he missed. So inconsistent - rabbit in headlights.

I maybe wrong, but not one use of this 5 second rule. What baffled me was the best part of 5 mins taken disallowing their goal. It should have been chalked off quicker. 14 mins of added on time with the trainer on the field only once.
 

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Certainly liked blowing his whistle.

Recall him being quite good last season when we had him
 

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Appalling performance from the ref today. If the PL is the best and richest league in the world and can attract the best players, managers and coaches, why don’t they hire the best refs in the world? I’m sick of games being ruined by incompetent refs.
 

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Referee Watch 2026/27

Sitting in the North stand when Anthony put the ball in the net the ref certainly didn't disallow it straight away, there was a good 10 seconds before he actually blew his whistle, I assume on the instruction of the assistant and all the Sunderland appeals. Weak refereeing and I am sure he would have given the goal and VAR unlikely to have got involved otherwise.
 

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Apart from the obvious awful display fron the ref, thought his whole team were dreadful. At points Sunderland were taking free kicks in another post code from the offence with no scrutiny and then the next minute the assistants were obsessed with Brentford taking a throw in, in exactly the right place. I'm waiting for one of the ref fraternity to tell us he was good today.
 

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Setting aside some of the big calls today what was staggering was how delayed some of his decision making was; blowing the whistle 4 or 5 seconds after the incident. Absolute plonker.
 

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Les Beeavinu said:
Just a horrible way to referee a game, no thought given to allowing a game to flow.
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Random moments of extreme lenience surrounded by lots of very very soft decisions.

Can deal with a consistent ref because the game flows around the boundaries they set, whether they are harsh or relaxed. With this guy you didn’t get a watchable game because there was none of that.

Thought the VAR process for their disallowed goal was crap. Took way too long. Thought the decision to rule out Anthony’s goal was wrong.

The pen is very harsh and I’d like to see the difference between that an Nathan Collins early claim in the first half.
 

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BFC1997 said:
Random moments of extreme lenience surrounded by lots of very very soft decisions.

Can deal with a consistent ref because the game flows around the boundaries they set, whether they are harsh or relaxed. With this guy you didn’t get a watchable game because there was none of that.

Thought the VAR process for their disallowed goal was crap. Took way too long. Thought the decision to rule out Anthony’s goal was wrong.

The pen is very harsh and I’d like to see the difference between that an Nathan Collins early claim in the first half.
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I haven't seen either of the last two so can't comment yet. However, having seen the disallowed goal on the big screen, I'm staggered that was a decision that took over 5 minutes.
 

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hanworthbee said:
How does it take 5 minutes to disallow that first goal
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It was very strange.

The goal was disallowed and indicated so by the ref and then we had another 3 minutes. Did he go to the monitor?
 

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Banana said:
It was very strange.

The goal was disallowed and indicated so by the ref and then we had another 3 minutes. Did he go to the monitor?
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That was our goal. Their goal was allowed, then checked by VAR, then reviewed at the monitor when it was clear that the player was offside and was interfering with the goalkeeper by line of sight.
 

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Les Beeavinu said:
That was our goal. Their goal was allowed, then checked by VAR, then reviewed at the monitor when it was clear that the player was offside and was interfering with the goalkeeper by line of sight.
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No. Their (eventual) disallowed goal was given as a goal by the ref. The ref then (after 3-4 mins) did the "TV Square" motion at which point I thought the goal was disallowed for offside (Esp as he raised his hand in the air). However (thinking about it) I think at this point he went to the monitor and spent some more time before announcing the goal was disallowed.
 

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Les Beeavinu said:
That was our goal. Their goal was allowed, then checked by VAR, then reviewed at the monitor when it was clear that the player was offside and was interfering with the goalkeeper by line of sight.
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Ah, after review, we are in agreement.
 

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Andrews has always taken the Clough approach in management of not criticising the referee indicating it’s a hard job, but today you saw Keith’s patience wearing thin at the final whistle he shook Bramall’s hand vigorously whilst shaking his head.

Brentford didn’t click as well as they did in their first two games.
But the referee after the early elongated VAR decision, lost his way.
Sunderland realised he didn’t have a grasp early on and were street wise enough to exploit his spiralling almost knee-jerking decisions and performance. Inconsistency reigned.

When the on the pitch hand held tv cameras run straight to the referee at the final whistle tells you everything, A 1-1 draw dominated by the man in the middle is a poor reflection. He will go home tonight and wish for better days.

The team dropped their level a little today, but the referee put in the weakest performance of the 23 men on the pitch today.
 

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Mick.C said:
He will go home tonight and wish for better days.
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Except he won’t.

He’ll go home and congratulate himself for a job well done. The assessor will say he did a good job.

There will be no attempt to review how he lost control of the match and no sanction from ProRef.

Players and managers cannot publicly berate officials for fear of bans and fines. Meanwhile ProRef will continue to serve up this dross week in week out.
 

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Untouchable said:
Except he won’t.

He’ll go home and congratulate himself for a job well done. The assessor will say he did a good job.

There will be no attempt to review how he lost control of the match and no sanction from ProRef.

Players and managers cannot publicly berate officials for fear of bans and fines. Meanwhile ProRef will continue to serve up this dross week in week out.
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Don't comment on refs, other than in the moment of the game which we all do.
Today, and i will put the result aside
The pool of refs in the Premier are inept, i have no favourites as that would imply you need certain ones for certain games.
Todays one was embarrassing beyond belief
 

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Turkish said:
Cowardly performance. Best part of 40 fouls given and I actually thought there were some fouls he missed. So inconsistent - rabbit in headlights.

I maybe wrong, but not one use of this 5 second rule. What baffled me was the best part of 5 mins taken disallowing their goal. It should have been chalked off quicker. 14 mins of added on time with the trainer on the field only once.
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His first use of the 5 seconds was the first goal kick Kelleher took after we went 1 up. I'm not even sure he'd put the ball down yet, and had taken a 10th of the time Roeffs(?) was.
 

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Getting appreciative handshakes from the whole of the Sunderland bench and managment team as he left the pitch to a chorus of boos after the game spoke volumes.....
As did the fact that he got nothing from our lot.....

On the penalty, the Sunderland player seemed to to be running straight into KLP. "Initiating contact", like we were told Collins did last week...If not, it was at least "mutual holding".....Very, very soft.
 

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I don’t want to hear another defensive comment of any of these prats for the rest of the season.

That’s two games where the official has cost us two points.

I’m done with these inept clueless ****s

Someone care to explain for a kick off how their strikers got foul after foul and Tiago gets sod all.

He brought all of their play acting and allowed them to ref large parts of the game.

@mhead bee get yourself in here and fill your boots.
 

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badgerbee said:
On the penalty, the Sunderland player seemed to to be running straight into KLP. "Initiating contact", like we were told Collins did last week..
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See my post on the match thread. The attacker had his arm fully wrapped around KLP.

Obviously it’s only initiating contact when it’s a Bees player though.
 

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Untouchable said:
See my post on the match thread. The attacker had his arm fully wrapped around KLP.

Obviously it’s only initiating contact when it’s a Bees player though.
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KLP can cry wolf all he wants but he made no attempt to turn and face the ball. Yes, there was "mutual holding" but one player had eyes on the ball and was attempting to play it, the other didn't have a clue where the ball was.
 
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