This will actually be our best bet of keeping their way of playing away from unsettling us, they have a good recent record against us which is helping them enormously since they became sinisterly involved in concentrating their devilment on the one or two better players who had the cheek to question them on the pitch.

He didnt, he just encouraged them to do more by ignoring the repeated fouls....

I have no idea what the ref done wrong in this one. He booked players when they deserved to be booked. There was no bad fouls. What more can he do ?

I genuinely don't know how Taylor can be considered one of the best referees - it doesn't say much for the rest.

I thought he was poor yesterday. The second half incident when Wilf was fouled on the edge of the Watford penalty area could have been swiftly dealt with by giving a yellow card ( merited ) to the defender. Instead he took no action which resulted in tempers boiling over on both sides, at which point he had no control. And that contributed to the 5 minutes added on at the end of the game.

Old, Ungifted and White

He definitely had a thing for booking the subtle, annoying little tugs rather than for GBH.

Towards the end, the incident with the ball boy and one of theirs (Capoue I think) who proceeded to throw the ball at PVA and push him hard in the chest was remarkable. I thought it would be a nailed-on red card but no, not even a proper talking to.

It was stunning to note that we ended up with as many bookings as them.

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And to the bloke who thought he reffed it well, you really need to watch the game properly.

Spirit of 1974

Meant ballboy