Simon Fear – pro-qualified referee and Tomkins Times member – takes an uncompromising and unbiased look at the officiating in games involving Liverpool in September 2010. Was luck for or against the Reds?
Simon Fear – pro-qualified referee and Tomkins Times member – takes an uncompromising look at the officiating in games involving Liverpool in August 2010, as the Reds faced a demanding start to the 2010/11 Premier League season.
Simon Fear – top-qualified referee and Tomkins Times member – takes an uncompromising look at the officiating in games involving Liverpool in April.
The game was played with an imposing noisy home crowd and there were a large number of incidents which were resolved with decisions that on occasions were correct, on others were incorrect – some lenient, some harsh. However, it’s fair to say that the match officials were not helped by the home crowd who were throwing thunder flares onto the pitch and clearly intent on creating an environment of intimidation.
Liverpool faced a testing fixture list in March with matches against Wigan, Lille (Home & Away), Portsmouth, Man Utd and Sunderland. It’s fair to say that Liverpool have not been blessed with many breaks this season from the men in black and have suffered a number of contentious decisions. So how would the men in the middle perform this month?
Former Conference referee (Senior Class One qualified) and Tomkins Times subscriber Simon Guerri-Fear takes a look at the decisions affecting Liverpool in February, in the first of a new monthly feature. Suffice it to say, he wasn’t very impressed with the performances of the men in black, in what was yet another surreal month of decision making.
