RateTheRef

In my opinion this was a poor performance by one of our elite referees. Inconsistent throughout and poor foul detection. Did nothing to prevent the Fulham goalkeeper from time wasting which he stopped with 3 minutes to go. LTwo incidents in the first half summed up his game. Free kick awarded against the Fulham player who booted the ball away some 20 yards preventing the free kick being taken. No yellow card, the Fulham player had already been cautioned. Not much later the whistle went, nobody sure what for, Ampadu picked the ball up threw it a short distance to a team mate for what he thought was a Leeds free kick. Apparently it was a free kick for Fulham and Ampadu was booked for throwing the ball away. A joke of a decision. Not impressed with C Kavanagh.

Questionable to appoint Langford to this game. Shocking decision.

Another SG1 without VAR for Leeds. He has to be better than Robert Jones was on Sunday. His reward for not giving the blatant penalty is a premiership game. No accountability!

Disagree with TA Ref the Cirkin hand ball was in front of me and his arm clearly moved away from his body to handle the ball. From 20 + yards away Mr Attwell was very quick to wave the penalty appeals away not giving the assistant who was in a much better position the chance to intervene.
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Overall Mr Attwell was just OK and did not add any time on for blatant time wasting throughout the game, not that any other refs do.

Gavin Ward at Elland Road on 31 August, when he was poor. Again this coming Saturday. Very bad appointment decision.

At the game. Very good performance by Jarred, let the game flow and wasn't conned by diving. Best at Elland Road this season. Possibly one more yellow for a Norwich player. Video should be shown to all SG2 and some SG1's on how to referee a very important game.

Surprised at Donohies appointment. I thought he was poor at Elland Road last Saturday. The local sports editor who is usually fair and generous gave him 2/10!

At the game and I agree with most of the comments. From where I was sat I find it difficult to accept Tim Robinson or Darren Cann did not see the second penalty call. The first penalty call should have been seen by Tim Robinson.

The referee in me keeps a stop watch on all games I watch. I am generally about right with added times on live and TV games but not last night. The first half had 1 added minute, I thought 3. Nothing added for time wasting. The second half I had 7 added minutes not 3. In the second half there were 5 yellow cards and 7 substitutes. 3 minutes not enough for this. Nothing added for blatant time wasting by the Sunderland goalkeeper and defence at goal kicks.  No-one spoken to about time wasting. In addition there were several times when  I timed in excess of 30 seconds when the Sunderland goalkeeper had control of the ball, ie in his hands. No action taken, so much for upholding the laws of the game. The Yorkshire Post reporter, who is usually very fair gave Tim Robinson 2/10 for his performance.

In my opinion I have seen too many games when SG1 referees have poor games in the Championship, as if it is beneath them.

The teams, supporters and the game deserve better performances than this from the officials.