sambo applecart said:

Before i start with my little rant, i'm not making excuses for a very below par performance today, we were not very good, but, when one team comes to play Rugby (Stoke) it makes it hard when that and a combined effort with the referee not knowing whats a freekick and what is actually GBH.



My main point is this. I think thats the 7th game ive been to this season(i know plenty of you will have been to more) and even when we have won, there hasnt been a game ive walked away from making a comment about how poor the referees have been! I pay my money (like everyone else does) to watch highly paid footballers to play football. I dont pay 25, 30, 35 quid per ticket (and then costly fuel on top, food etc) to basically watch a referee turn a game of football into a pantomime. The only thing missing today from another inept refereeing performance was people actually shouting 'he's behind you'.......then i really would have thought i was at a pantomime! Any one would think the referee should be the star of the show and he is the one on 3 million pound a year, not the players!



Then, there was no food! No food! Couldnt even get a foot long hot dog at half time! Whats all that about?!?! Starving the goodison faithful!



Leaving the ground today, i got a text saying 'buy your tickets for the norwich game and get swansea half price'!! So i text the number back and said 'if you can guarantee me that the next games i come to the referee is going to actually do their job properly then i'll buy the tickets'!!!



Fell better for getting that off my chest, i dont buy any means think we played well today, i jsut think sometimes the elements go against you so to speak and today was one of those days! COYB!

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TKD said:

sambo applecart said:

Before i start with my little rant, i'm not making excuses for a very below par performance today, we were not very good, but, when one team comes to play Rugby (Stoke) it makes it hard when that and a combined effort with the referee not knowing whats a freekick and what is actually GBH.



My main point is this. I think thats the 7th game ive been to this season(i know plenty of you will have been to more) and even when we have won, there hasnt been a game ive walked away from making a comment about how poor the referees have been! I pay my money (like everyone else does) to watch highly paid footballers to play football. I dont pay 25, 30, 35 quid per ticket (and then costly fuel on top, food etc) to basically watch a referee turn a game of football into a pantomime. The only thing missing today from another inept refereeing performance was people actually shouting 'he's behind you'.......then i really would have thought i was at a pantomime! Any one would think the referee should be the star of the show and he is the one on 3 million pound a year, not the players!



Then, there was no food! No food! Couldnt even get a foot long hot dog at half time! Whats all that about?!?! Starving the goodison faithful!



Leaving the ground today, i got a text saying 'buy your tickets for the norwich game and get swansea half price'!! So i text the number back and said 'if you can guarantee me that the next games i come to the referee is going to actually do their job properly then i'll buy the tickets'!!!



Fell better for getting that off my chest, i dont buy any means think we played well today, i jsut think sometimes the elements go against you so to speak and today was one of those days! COYB!

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and to add to that- the atmosphere was shocking. the team didn't seem ar$ed from the off and the fans were moaning after about five minutes. no wonder though- vellios up front on his own in a 4-5-1 formation??  A teenager for goodness sakes!!! its too much to ask at least put him up front with some support..

 and the ref well dont get me started!! long balls down into him with cbs pulling his shirt and leaning on his neck every two seconds, clear penalties and free kicks that werent given all afternoon..

and the  midfielders couldnt be bothered to run forward and help out. just shocking.

and the timewasting!!! my god never seen anything like that sorenson. the ref  enjoyed sorrensons theatrics , could have sworn I saw him smiling when it took ten minutes to get him off the field!!I even clapped him when he came into his goal for the second half ya know and this is the respect he has for us ON OUR OWN PUCKING TURF LIKE. absolute n.o.b ed and ill tell you what also got on me t1ts- You can't bring bottles into the stands now I had to drink my coke out of a plastic cup

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