Declan Bourne today’s ref

It wouldn’t look dodgy if he hadn’t bent over for Salford in the reverse fixture too.

I know the calmer fans among us will claim he wasn't actually biased, just incompetent.

And normally I'm one of them. But on this occasion I think there was a bit of bias creeping in.

Firstly, imagine the fuss if, today, Salford had a goal disallowed; a player kicked in the head but no free kick; no penalty for the handball in the first half; no penalty for the shove on LJL; no free kick when Hanson was bundled over racing onto a long ball; no advantage played when through on goal...

Imagine if all those things went against Salford. With Neville, Scholes, Keane, whoever, sat in the stands, watching on, waiting to have their say on Sky Sports.

They have the power and the media presence to single out that referee and shame him, to the point where it could affect his confidence or even his career. And I'm sure he had that in the back of his mind.

I don't think he was a cheat. I just think he knew what outrage there would be if he overlooked anything that could be perceived a Salford free kick, hence why all 50/50 or even 60/40s in our favour went to them.

I'm glad he was brave enough and competent enough not to award them a penalty, but in the same breath he's bottled booking their player.

As for the offside shout, same principle at play. Imagine if the lino waved his flag only after the ball had gone in. There would have been utter chaos and a very unhappy Salford bench.

And an unhappy Salford bench, sadly, worried the referee a lot more than an unhappy Grimsby bench, and that I'm afraid was (and always will be) the difference whenever Salford play. They automatically put officials under pressure, before a ball has been kicked.

lmao absolute bent cúnt (the ref, not this guy).

https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeyMcMahon/status/1378086699348193285


Can’t even be arsed with this season.

Quoted from ska face

lmao absolute bent cúnt (the ref, not this guy).

https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeyMcMahon/status/1378086699348193285


Can’t even be arsed with this season.

Thanks Ska, glad you clarified.... I’m not that bad really 😂

He’ll use the altercation as the reason he needed to stop the game and then did intercourse all to break it up.

Quoted from Mikey_345

Thanks Ska, glad you clarified.... I’m not that bad really 😂

Happy to confirm Mikey is a good lad having met him away at Notts County, Easter Monday 12 years back. We almost shared a table at Spearmint Rhino.

Quoted from ska face

Happy to confirm Mikey is a good lad having met him away at Notts County, Easter Monday 12 years back. We almost shared a table at Spearmint Rhino.

Cheques in the post mate 👍

Worst referee I have ever seen at any level

Quoted from RichMariner

I know the calmer fans among us will claim he wasn't actually biased, just incompetent.

And normally I'm one of them. But on this occasion I think there was a bit of bias creeping in.

Firstly, imagine the fuss if, today, Salford had a goal disallowed; a player kicked in the head but no free kick; no penalty for the handball in the first half; no penalty for the shove on LJL; no free kick when Hanson was bundled over racing onto a long ball; no advantage played when through on goal...

Imagine if all those things went against Salford. With Neville, Scholes, Keane, whoever, sat in the stands, watching on, waiting to have their say on Sky Sports.

They have the power and the media presence to single out that referee and shame him, to the point where it could affect his confidence or even his career. And I'm sure he had that in the back of his mind.

I don't think he was a cheat. I just think he knew what outrage there would be if he overlooked anything that could be perceived a Salford free kick, hence why all 50/50 or even 60/40s in our favour went to them.

I'm glad he was brave enough and competent enough not to award them a penalty, but in the same breath he's bottled booking their player.

As for the offside shout, same principle at play. Imagine if the lino waved his flag only after the ball had gone in. There would have been utter chaos and a very unhappy Salford bench.

And an unhappy Salford bench, sadly, worried the referee a lot more than an unhappy Grimsby bench, and that I'm afraid was (and always will be) the difference whenever Salford play. They automatically put officials under pressure, before a ball has been kicked.

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I don’t know how true it was but I saw something on Twitter that said Keane was in the front row of the stand with the other ex Man U players sat behind him.

I just think having such big characters (gobs) that close to you in a tiny empty stadium must be difficult to block out but as a ref he must do that. Who knows with 1,000 plus away fans in there things may have been different.

You could see the ref was a soft @rse as he bottled giving Payne a 2nd yellow for clapping the decision to book him.

I usually say that refs know the rules but nothing about the game, I’m not sure this clown knew either.

Roy Keane is the biggest twit ever to grace football. He should have been removed from the sport forever  for finishing Haalands  career and bragging about it but ends up on sky talking bollox