A good number of whom, over the years, have been involved with taking bungs........

With the vast amounts of money gambled, particularly in the far east and Asia, it would be very surprising indeed if there was not some corruption in the English game - it's simply weak human nature.

I would never be surprised to see the names of an official or two from the world of football (at all levels)come up on one of these 'paradise papers' leaks.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Rubbish, Willo. Whether you think there's a conspiracy going on here it must be obvious to even a fool that this official's performance was nowhere near acceptable standard, it ruined the game, quite clearly affected the result and also left at least two Everton players without roundly deserved suspensions.

You could say that he made "mistakes". He made lots of mistakes, and quite a few of them were very serious mistakes indeed. They include:

- Penalty awarded for a dive
- Niasse not booked for said dive
- Penalty not awarded for Cabaye shove in the chest
- Player not booked for above
- Several yellow card offences by Niasse ignored
- Several yellow card offences by Davis ignored
- Advantage not played when Palace player through on goal
- Throw-in retaken for no reason when Everton failed to be ready for it
- Total failure to protect Wilf and Townsend from unfair challenges by various players

That is not a referee who "errs". That is lots of very serious "mistakes". Lots of very serious mistakes = a f***ing piss poor performance. And that's if we accept that there was no genuine bias, an assumption which I would regard as highly charitable. It's funny how none of his "mistakes" seemed to benefit us. If he'd got those things right we'd have won easily and the Speroni/Dann cockup would have been incidental (if indeed it had happened at all - Niasse should have been in the showers by then).

You need to get your head out of your arse, understand that the quality of refereeing in the Preimership is absolutely appalling, and accept that it is a serious issue. This performance was the worst display by a referee I have seen for a long time, but it sadly isn't untypical of the sort of s*** we see week in, week out. After all Northern Ireland are out of the World Cup because of precisely this sort of incompetence.

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I agree absolutely that the refereeing was shambolic yesterday and you do have to wonder about partiality when so many clear decisions are going against us.

However, I will clear up the throw-in incident. The game was stopped and the throw-in retaken as the lino had (incorrectly) awarded the throw to Everton and was still flagging that way before being overruled by the ref. Frustrating but the correct decision.

Goodness is what you do. Not who you pray to.

If he'd been playing for us and acted the way he did yesterday he'd have been booked for the dive and sent off for a second yellow after about half an hour.

Why do you think Tekers doesn't do it any more since he came to us?

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I really don't think we can blame the referee for the foul count.

If it was us away from home and we committed 26 fouls to 9 and come away with a good point we would be lauding our team for the effort,grit and determination amongst headlines of a 'Battling performance'.

We could do a 'Davies' in our side with great energy and tireless performances.His uncle is Alan Whittle !

Edited by Willo (19 Nov 2017 10.50am)

If we had gone away from home and adopted such a tactic and got a good draw there would be NO complaints on here whatsoever.Breaking up play and not allowing the other side to gain momentum is actually not a bad tactic when one is in dire need of points.

I believe your question surrounding Sakho is rhetorical and is certainly hypothetical.

Regards the maths of fouls to card count, not every foul is worthy of a card.