RateTheRef

I'm Norwegian and it pleases me very much that he performes so well internationally. A very good year for the team and finally we have a referee who gets good games at the highest level.

He has the potential to become Norway's all-time number one.

20:45 CET - Malaga (La Rosaleda)
SPAIN - NORWAY | Group A
Referee: Benoît Bastien (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Hicham Zakrani (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Aurélien Berthomieu (FRA)
Fourth Official: Thomas Leonard (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Benoît Millot (FRA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Eric Wattellier (FRA)
UEFA Referee Observer: Miroslav Liba (CZE)
UEFA Delegate: Jack Grundie (NIR)

Very unimpressed.

Arrogant performance, felt like he was there to please the home team.
Martin Ødegaard chopped down in the box after he'd shot. A foul and a booking all day long anywhere else on the pitch.
Giving freekicks to Spain for absolutely nothing in the box a few times on set pieces.

How on earth did he not give a foul against the City GK?

Quote from: K16 on Mon 03 Oct 2022 11:30

Finally good news for Norwegian refereeing!  Seems like Rossetti was very pleased with Eskås in his Europa League game the other week.
Svein Oddvar Moen was the last Norwegian to referee in the CL in February 2016, and now he is the fourth official.

Why did Svein Oddvar Moen fall out of favour?  I am sure he was often given big knockout champions league games.

I think it started to go downwards after the Iceland v Finland game in October 2016 when he only booked a Finnish player who grabbed his shirt and pulled him back. It was clearly a red card and he was taken off a European game later.

He never did a CL game again but he refereed some EL games the season after. He had a Conference League qualifier in July this year, his first European game for three years.

League B - Group 4
24 September 2022, 18:00 CET - Ljubljana, Stadion Stožice
SLOVENIA - NORWAY
Referee: Lawrence Visser (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Rien Vanyzere (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Thibaud Nijssen (BEL)
Fourth Official: Lothar D'hondt (BEL)
Video Assistant Referee: Bram Van Driessche (BEL)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Nathan Verboomen (BEL)
UEFA Referee Observer: Roberto Rosetti (ITA)
UEFA Delegate: Christian Mutschler (SUI)

I wonder what Rossetti made of his performance. Disallowed goal correct. I thought he missed clear yellow card on a Slovenian player in the first half. He frustrated both sets of players throughout the game by blowing too much, especially in the first half. I thought to myself that it was nice to watch some football in this game of free kicks, and this wasn't an ugly game at all. And he needs to get a new whistle, I could barely hear it and a couple of times I realised he had blown only when he signalled with his arm.
All in all a little frustrating to watch.

I'm Norwegian and I was very surprised when he pointed at the spot and not the other way for diving.
The Swedes are not pleased after the game. Their manager said it was a horrible decision and and the big Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet wondered if the guys in the VAR bus was on crack!

But now I'm very happy we beat Sweden in a game that counts for the first time since 1977!

I had to look through the appointments for the league games beetween Burnley and Man United at Turf Moor and Old Trafford. Jon Moss always seems to get these games and I had a suspicion Mike Dean was a regular too.
For the last nine league games between the two teams, included the game this weekend, Jon Moss and Mike Dean has refereed 8 of them!

21/22:
Burnley-MU: Mike Dean
MU-Burnley: Jon Moss

20/21:
MU-Burnley: Kevin Friend
Burnley-MU: Jon Moss

19/20:
MU-Burnley: Jon Moss
Burnley-MU: Mike Dean

18/19:
MU-Burnley: Jon Moss
Burnley-MU: Jon Moss

17/18:
Burnley-MU: Mike Dean
(MU-Burnley: Martin Atkinson)

Are there any other fixtures that have had only three different referees for the last 9 league games?