{"id":24287,"date":"2020-11-05T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=24287"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:52:19","slug":"the-refs-watch-blackburn-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2020\/11\/05\/the-refs-watch-blackburn-brentford\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ref&#8217;s Watch &#8211; Blackburn &#038; Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As there was so little to talk about in the last 2 games, I will be combining the both.<\/p>\n<p>For the Blackburn game apart from the penalty that should have been given against Roberts. Without my supporters tinted glasses on, I felt the ref gave the Swans quite a few favourable decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Cabango came right through Blackburn player from behind very early. Some referees will use this as not to book.\u00a0 Had it been later he probably would have been carded.<\/p>\n<p>For the Brentford game, whereas from a supporters view there were quite a lot of fouls given against the Swans. They were correct, however the Brentford players did seem to roll around a lot.\u00a0 I thought the ref did well not to be fooled into booking Swans players unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the offside decision.\u00a0 I know this is going to make me unpopular, but it was correct. Ayew was standing offside from the kick and moved just after the delivery to onside.<\/p>\n<p>I personally really don\u2019t like the new law change which says the linesman isn\u2019t allowed to raise the flag until something happens eg goal etc. It makes you look incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>I would still like to go back to the old off side law of in the words of legend of the late Brian Clough \u201cIf you\u2019re on the pitch, you\u2019re offside!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As there was so little to talk about in the last 2 games, I will be combining the both. For the Blackburn game apart from the penalty that should have been given against Roberts. Without my supporters tinted glasses on, I felt the ref gave the Swans quite a few favourable decisions. Cabango came right [&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":[222,229],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-24287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-refs-watch","tag-20-21-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287","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=24287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}