Penalty and a sending off

[Olly]

Then there was M'bia running onto a ball in the second half with three mancs well in front of him, a hand goes up and he was called offside, unbelievable.

[jfish]

I thought the ref and the linos were shocking, especially the 60 minutes.

[Graham Norton]

What about the ball being kicked against Ellerslie Road's roof TWICE during the match and the lino allowing play to go on and not giving a throw in on either occasion, just a completely ridiculous mistake...

[dave58]

Was not a penalty!! sorry, ref had a fairly decent game!

You are joking he was a disgrace penalty or not his decisions were terrible and Granros booking was as joke.let no one tell you big teams don't get big calls he was so for them it was embarrassing.

[W12_Ranger]

He dived

[theblackmafia.]

No penalty and should have been booked

[DeepcutHoop]

IF Derry was foreign, he'd have fallen and rolled and possibly got Silva sent off.

Clichy did Mbia a favour too, didn't go down when Mbia went through him with a late one.

Don't think the ref had a bad game tbf, the commentators on Football First were very complimentary

[Ginger Ninja]

What about the ball being kicked against Ellerslie Road's roof TWICE during the match and the lino allowing play to go on and not giving a throw in on either occasion, just a completely ridiculous mistake...

it didnt hit the roof at all. on both occasions the ball was going over onto the roof, and the wind blew it back. seriously, the ball didnt leave the field of play.

[stanistheman]

was outside the box and i think Remy dived...thought the ref had a great game tonight.

The ref had a great game . How many refs would have given a pen against Onuoha for his excellent tackle late on?
The challenge on Remy was outside the area, but I am not convinced there was contact anyway.
Does often played the advantage rule well and didn't needlessly give out yellow cards (quite possibly took the wet conditions into account).
I'd go as far as to say that his performance was amongst the best I have seen from a ref.

[Graham Norton]

it didnt hit the roof at all. on both occasions the ball was going over onto the roof, and the wind blew it back. seriously, the ball didnt leave the field of play.

Happily be proven wrong but I sit in Ellerslie and was pretty sure I heard the ball make contact, either that or the pressure's finally getting to me and I've cracked!

[jfish]

The ref had a great game . How many refs would have given a pen against Onuoha for his excellent tackle late on?
The challenge on Remy was outside the area, but I am not convinced there was contact anyway.
Does often played the advantage rule well and didn't needlessly give out yellow cards (quite possibly took the wet conditions into account).
I'd go as far as to say that his performance was amongst the best I have seen from a ref.

Wow, I couldn't of seen that any differently. Dreadful performance from the ref and one of the linos.

[fisnik]

M'bia could have been sent off for late tackle on Clichy near the end. Was already on a yellow. Also M'bia won a free kick when he shouldn't have.

[CroydonCaptainJack]

Astonished that people thought the ref was ok but just shows how opinions differ

[acricketer]

M'bia was a headless chicken. He has no end product. Clueless.

[SammyKojoe]

I thought he gave them everything. Big teams get all the decisions people say and after tonight that still stands. From SA Road the Remy pen looked stonewall but people say it was a good decision by the ref.