Robbo has been awful for a while now. If you haven’t noticed that then you know Fack all about footy.

Spurs has definitely become a must win at this point after dropping points in the last two. Forget Arsenal, Chelsea are our biggest threat this season.

we get facked over everytime by refs going to spurs too, the amount of howlers from officials weve had against them in recent years is xrazy.

comment by (K̇ash) - Welcome to Mo Trafford - Free Pales... (U1108)
posted about 11 hours ago
Sadly no defence for Robbo. That was just stupid. He is on his last legs. We do need to look for a new left back in the summer.

Having said that I was more annoyed with Trent. He was actually a disgrace today. Only player in the red shirt who did not give his all. Every player ran the extra mile but he left others to get him out of a hole when he could not be bothered to sprint.

Fulham fully exposed him today and that was before the red card.
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I think we have to understand that Trent was one of the players that was asked to play in multiple positions when Robertson was sent off. He wasn't really playing as a right back. He was likely exhausted, which is why he was taken off, trying to cover multiple positions.

Gravenberch did his covering of multiple positions much better but then his was easier, drop back a few yards when out of possession and get back into midfield when in possession.

I thought Gomez was excellent covering left back and centre back.

When Trent came off and later Quansah came on covering the right back position, we were worse defensively and that's how their second came.

Although not too many complaints from me. We're the only team in the league for me who could have dominated a game and even deserved to win it, playing the way we did and the chances created, when down to ten for almost 90 minutes.

The red last night was shocking too, first off he took a domey touch sideways towards vvd so theres covering defender. Secondly ref played advantage and fulham had a clear goalscoring opportunity , jominez missed it then the ref pulled it back and sent robbo off? Wtf is all that about?

Then let the entire fulham team surround him and our captain couldnt even talk to him

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted less than a minute ago
The red last night was shocking too, first off he took a domey touch sideways towards vvd so theres covering defender. Secondly ref played advantage and fulham had a clear goalscoring opportunity , jominez missed it then the ref pulled it back and sent robbo off? Wtf is all that about?
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Robertson denied a clear goalscoring opportunity and therefore a red was an easy and correct choice.

He'd had a poor game up to that point already. Not sure how much the awful challenge on him played a part in this. When Kane made that two footed lunge on him and didn't get sent off, Robertson later got sent off. Perhaps his head went but one thing is for sure it was the easiest red card you'll ever see.

Did he? Fulham had a clear goalscoring opp and misse dit as i said also the tpuch wilson took was in no way creating a clear goalscoring opp for himself. And he ref played on you cant play advantage to the point a player has a 1v1 misses then pull it back, advantage has been played out to its full?

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted 55 seconds ago
Did he? Fulham had a clear goalscoring opp and misse dit as i said also the tpuch wilson took was in no way creating a clear goalscoring opp for himself. And he ref played on you cant play advantage to the point a player has a 1v1 misses then pull it back, advantage has been played out to its full?
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Yes Wilson was about to be clear on goal and Robertson took him down.

He wasnt though was he? the touch meant he was clear on vvd

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted about a minute ago
He wasnt though was he? the touch meant he was clear on vvd
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He was yes.

i disagree, and lineker and motd lot seemed to aswell.

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted 6 minutes ago
Did he? Fulham had a clear goalscoring opp and misse dit as i said also the tpuch wilson took was in no way creating a clear goalscoring opp for himself. And he ref played on you cant play advantage to the point a player has a 1v1 misses then pull it back, advantage has been played out to its full?
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If Wilson had got up and went on himself, advantage was played it likely wouldn't have been called back. However if he wasn't fouled he either could have had the clear opportunity to score himself or passed to his teammate. These options were removed due to Robertson's foul.

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted less than a minute ago
i disagree, and lineker and motd lot seemed to aswell.
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Yeah these guys don't go by laws of the game, just what they consider common sense. However referees have to go by the laws of the game. Think it was Warnock on commentary yesterday and he kept coming out with nonsense like unintentional when fouls were made which have absolutely no meaning in regards to whether a foul is given or not.

comment by Fred Slot (U3979)
posted 22 minutes ago
Spurs has definitely become a must win at this point after dropping points in the last two. Forget Arsenal, Chelsea are our biggest threat this season.
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You are so reactionary

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Fred Slot (U3979)
posted 22 minutes ago
Spurs has definitely become a must win at this point after dropping points in the last two. Forget Arsenal, Chelsea are our biggest threat this season.
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You are so reactionary
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He's not known as FickleFred for nothing

From the IFAB

The referee can wait a few seconds to allow a possible advantage to develop, and if the non-offending team does not benefit and gains no advantage, the free kick can be given for the original offence. However, the non-offending team should not be given two chances to benefit. For instance, if a player is fouled, recovers, has a shot at goal and fails to score, the referee cannot go back and give a free kick for the original offence.

Fulham had a clear chance to score Jiminez facked it up.

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted 38 seconds ago
From the IFAB

The referee can wait a few seconds to allow a possible advantage to develop, and if the non-offending team does not benefit and gains no advantage, the free kick can be given for the original offence. However, the non-offending team should not be given two chances to benefit. For instance, if a player is fouled, recovers, has a shot at goal and fails to score, the referee cannot go back and give a free kick for the original offence.
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Yes? The player didn't recover and have a shot at goal. Like I said if he had got up and retained his goal scoring opportunity and therefore referee played advantage it wouldn't have been called back. Robertson denied him that.

notice how it says non-offending team its not just on about the player fouled.

If the referee plays the advantage following an offence that would have resulted in a red or yellow card being shown, the card must be shown the next time the game stops. However:

if the offence was denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, a yellow card is shown instead of a red card, as playing the advantage allowed the attack to continue
if the offence was stopping or interfering with a promising attack, no card is shown as playing the advantage allowed the attack to continue

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted about a minute ago
Fulham had a clear chance to score Jiminez facked it up.
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Yes, the foul was given against Robertson on Wilson, Robertson denied a goal scoring opportunity by fouling Wilson.

so it should have been a yellow card and play on, the ref facked up big time. the advantage allowed the atk to continue and they had a clear goal scoring opportunity.

comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted about a minute ago
notice how it says non-offending team its not just on about the player fouled.
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You've completely misinterpreted the meaning of this and developed your own meaning.

Per the laws of the game, the goal scoring opportunity belongs to the player and not the team. Wilson was denied the opportunity so Robbo was rightfully sent off. Although that doesn't explain why the Villa player wasn't sent off the other day when Nunez scored. Had Jimenez scored then would it have been a red?