Martin Atkinson

Jep said:
Was shit and didnt want to give us anything. Glad the linesman wasn't in the same frame of mind.

What was the third shout? There was the Mata barge, and the blatant as you'll see kick at Zlatan, but what was the other?
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When he recieved a ball, got the touch then got taken out. Lingard then had a shot over the bar.
Didn't see a good enough replay but I was quite sure it was a foul.
 
Jep said:
What was the third shout? There was the Mata barge, and the blatant as you'll see kick at Zlatan, but what was the other?
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two kicks on Ibra - one in the first half and one in the second. You can actually hear them kicking him off the ball and he was very close to the situations.
 
I don't expect a decision from him given he's a Leeds fan - that's the reason there's a rule against referees taking charge of games involving rivals of the teams they support...
 
I don't think the second is a penalty - but the first and third should be penalties. Was a debate between Chris Sutton and Howard Webb where Sutton thought Mata's wasn't a penalty, while Webb said it was a clear penalty as Kone simply barged Mata to the ground.
 
Already messing up few calls against us.
 
Is he blind? He looked right at Otamendo fouling Rashford for a clear yellow, and waved it on?!
 
What's he playing at? Fernandinho and Otamendi should be on clear yellow cards already and when Aguero hit the post Zabaleta was 3 yards offside tackling and blocking our defender clearing the through ball. Bonkers.

Bet we get the first yellow and no tolerance.
 
Look at what herrera got sent off for against chelsea, or better mata against WBA a while back and then compare it to these non-yellows.

Different sport. I don't care which way it goes but ffs some consistency would clearly kill them
 
Fecking useless ref. Funny how he manages to shaft us in almost every game of ours he's in charge of.
 
I don't think it's personal, he's just purely incompetent.
 
He's a Leeds fan. Shouldn't even be ref for any of our games.
 
Allowing City to get away with everything. Not fit to ref a game like this.
 
May as well be wearing sky blue too in the first half.

Handicapped us by not even bothering to book their players for clear blocks repeatedly.
 
Fernandinho should've had 2 yellows

Otamendi should've had 2 yellows

Kompany should've had a yellow

All blatantly ignored.
 
I just wince every time i see him in charge of one of our games
He hasn't screwed us yet, some small decisions going against us, but I just assume its inevitable that he will at some point
 
Typical Guardiola style brutishness allowed to go completely unpunished.

(That's what would've been said if it were Mourinho's men getting away with the stuff they've this half.)
 
caid said:
I just wince every time i see him in charge of one of our games
He hasn't screwed us yet, some small decisions going against us, but I just assume its inevitable that he will at some point
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Well we could be playing against 9 men if he'd done his job so I don't know about that.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
Fernandinho should've had 2 yellows

Otamendi should've had 2 yellows

Kompany should've had a yellow

All blatantly ignored.
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Just wait for our first hard challenge. Instayellow. Probably red.
 
caid said:
He hasn't screwed us yet, some small decisions going against us, but I just assume its inevitable that he will at some point
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That's not for certain. Who knows what might have happened from the countless fouls that should have been given (also cards to Fernandinho)
 
Yaya openly criticises the referees during the build up and low and behold the referee puts in a performance like this.
 
Reminds me of the Chelsea game a couple of years ago where Ivanovic was doing exactly this and Atkinson just let him get away with it time and time again.
 
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