But that is how the rule is applied, is it not ? And the reason why Webb didn't issue a red card ?

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Pulis is focusing his ire in the wrong place with this. It's just whinging and won't make any difference because football needs refs.

It's incredibly rare that a referee is the reason that a team loses a game - he's pulling a 'Mourinho' here and attempting to deflect the criticism away from his players.

Prefer he didn't but it has it's benefits - as long as he's giving them hell on the training pitch and working on ways to get the performances back up.

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He's right to lodge a complaint if he feels the quality of refereeing was questionable in its standard. There's a difference between complaining about the referee in the media, and lodging an complaint with the governing body.

On the replays from the opposition end I think maybe Webb got it right, but from his position at the time, I think he got lucky in that regards, rather than made a good call.

Clyne looked likely to get a challange in, but that doesn't mean that Bolaise wouldn't either have ridden that challange, been brought down or got a shot away.

Fonte knew what he was doing, taking one for the team. there was no chance he was going to win the ball, and he knew it. His team were 1-0 going into half time.

The rules need to change. Denying a clear goalscoring opportunity in the final third should be a yellow card and a penalty. In the box it should be a red card and a penalty.

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As i said in my original post, it's the rules that need looking at not just the ref's performance.

One way of getting a debate going on the rules is to question their interpretation, as in the case with Webb.

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Webb is too busy trying to earn money as a celeb to be any good as a ref.I went home wondering if I was alone in thinking he was crap so was pleasantly surprised that so many agreed.

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Webb stuffed us again in the Fulham-Newcastle match, denying Newcastle a clear penalty when Krul's shot hit Heitinga's arm. The shot was goal-bound and Heitinga's arm was out-stretched. It was far more of a pen than the one given against Moxey in the Palace home defeat by Spurs. I originally thought Webb had decided it was accidental handball but in fact he admitted he hadn't even seen it. That was because he was badly positioned with about four players between him and the incident. He was probably thinking about his next four-grand after-dinner gig at the time.

The right place at the right time