{"id":23560,"date":"2020-10-25T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=23560"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:53:05","slug":"the-refs-watch-bristol-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2020\/10\/25\/the-refs-watch-bristol-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ref&#8217;s Watch &#8211; Bristol City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of the followers of this blog will probably know, I will take the line of defending the referee.<\/p>\n<p>However, this time I simply cannot!<\/p>\n<p>Before even getting to the award of the penalty, the referee appeared to award free kicks &amp; produce yellow cards against the Swans, yet when exactly same offences were committed by Bristol he did not give them.<\/p>\n<p>Now onto the award of the penalty and what I saw. Roberts deliberately fell over to try and get a foul against the defender. The player fell over Roberts feet. All should have been is a goal kick and at worst a word to Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>I simply cannot fathom why the ref gave it.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of respect goes out to the Bristol City manager, as it\u2019s so refreshing to hear an opposing manager admit that it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>My only only explanation is that are certain teams that a referee may not like and sometimes human nature gets the better of them.<\/p>\n<p>Had the same decision been given for the Swans, I would be making exactly the same comment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23531\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/joinchat\/AAAAAEZjY0gAVXfwllUulw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23531 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Telegram-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can get all the latest news from Planet Swans via our Telegram channel &#8211; click here to subscribe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of the followers of this blog will probably know, I will take the line of defending the referee. However, this time I simply cannot! Before even getting to the award of the penalty, the referee appeared to award free kicks &amp; produce yellow cards against the Swans, yet when exactly same offences were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[222,49,229],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-23560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-refs-watch","tag-20-21-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}