RateTheRef

Can't say I was overly impressed with Hategan tonight.  Very inconsistent, an example Patkai was climbing all over a Welsh player, hands on his shoulder literally holding him down, nothing given but within 2 mins a Welsh player did the same to a Hungarian player & free kick instantly given.  Lots of similar inconsistencies throughout the game in respect of both teams.  Wales were literally playing Hungary off the park, a far superior team and Hungary resorted to persistent silly fouls - we were not pretty to watch! No yellow cards until the 65th minute by which time we could have had by my reckoning 5 different players booked for persistent fouling. I like lenient referees but sometimes you can be too lenient. The silly little fouls had reached ridiculous levels before he took any action. We have someone totting up Baráth's fouls & I have my money on him committing more fouls that there were shots by both teams, seriously he was embarrassing and the total will be over 12-15 before he finally got a YC. Penalty shout for Hungary in the 1st half, which he quite rightly waved away, there was a slight push but nowhere near enough for a penalty imo. He did play a couple of lovely advantages for Wales, none for Hungary but we would have had to actually do some attacking for that opportunity to occur! His fitness was excellent, positioning decent and he built up a good rapport with players from both teams. Nothing majorly wrong, with his refereeing anyway, Hungary's defending on the other hand... Just very inconsistent & difficult to know what was and wasn't a foul as it was pot luck if he gave a kick or not. A smiley overly lenient performance.

Thankfully I did not hear any anti Romanian chanting from the ultras. This is of course may partially be due to them being drowned out by a very loud and melodic home crowd but hopefully the spotters there to ensure it didn't happen, yet again, didn't hear any either! I do sincerely hope it's because the ultras have listened to Dr Csányi & didn't go there.  He was in attendance along with our PM. Always good to see them supporting the team & wearing the NT colours even in the posh area!! They were both belting out the National Anthem as well! I like Dr Csányi, I think he represents the federation very well & is a genuine football man. He tries to do right for the game in general.

The Welsh fans were superb, spine tingling when they sung their anthem, I know it is stereotypical but the Welsh do sing beautifully. No wonder they gave us some pitying looks with our out of key effort at our National Anthem!

The far better team won on the night & whilst gutted I have no complaints with the scoreline. Congrats to Wales for qualifying for the Euros. As for us, well play offs here we come - again!