{"id":69309,"date":"2022-09-15T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=69309"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:42:52","slug":"martin-blames-the-referee-for-sheffield-united-goal-but-was-it-a-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/09\/15\/martin-blames-the-referee-for-sheffield-united-goal-but-was-it-a-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin blames the referee for Sheffield United goal &#8211; but was it a foul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City boss Russell Martin was quick to criticise the referee and back Kyle Naughton in the aftermath of the Sheffield United loss on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Often the Swans boss has chosen to take the focus off himself and the team&#8217;s poor performance (not that Tuesday was) by blaming refereeing decisions, injuries and even long bus journeys.<\/p>\n<p>But was this call by Martin that Naughton was fouled by Rhian Brewster correct? You decide.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a moment! \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The tackle from Bash, the ball from RND, the work-rate from Brewster and the finish from Reda. Khadra&#39;s last minute goal against Swansea! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T3vkrIZJ1d\">pic.twitter.com\/T3vkrIZJ1d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheffieldUnited\/status\/1569824441902796800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From back to front. \u26a1\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>A crucial sliding tackle from Basham, up field from Norrington-Davies, the top two did the rest. \ud83e\udd24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Gyx8S7caf\">pic.twitter.com\/9Gyx8S7caf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheffieldUnited\/status\/1569994838493302784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To me that doesn&#8217;t look a foul. And Naughton at best could have cleared the ball into row z. At worst he could have taken down Brewster and accepted a possible red card.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s these decisions that have cost the Swans dearly this season. But Martin remains firm on where the blame lies:<\/p>\n<div class=\"Markup__ParagraphWrapper-sc-13q6ywe-0 kxUGYD markup\">\n<p>&#8220;I trust Kyle, he [Brewster] has clipped his heels,\u201d the Swans boss said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Markup__ParagraphWrapper-sc-13q6ywe-0 kxUGYD markup\">\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s run across him and there\u2019s contact. It shouldn\u2019t get to that point, they clear the ball and have one guy around three or four of ours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Markup__ParagraphWrapper-sc-13q6ywe-0 kxUGYD markup\">\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the easiest decision the referee\u2019s got to make all night, it\u2019s really not difficult. But he\u2019s not given it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Markup__ParagraphWrapper-sc-13q6ywe-0 kxUGYD markup\">\n<p>&#8220;We should still deal with the aftermath, but we don\u2019t. It\u2019s pointless to speak to the ref. I have the luxury of knowing Kyle and trusting him. It doesn\u2019t achieve anything so it\u2019s pointless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City boss Russell Martin was quick to criticise the referee and back Kyle Naughton in the aftermath of the Sheffield United loss on Tuesday. Often the Swans boss has chosen to take the focus off himself and the team&#8217;s poor performance (not that Tuesday was) by blaming refereeing decisions, injuries and even long bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":68333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[385,636,720,665],"class_list":["post-69309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-kyle-naughton","tag-russell-martin","tag-sheffield-united","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69309","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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}