Arthur Wedge
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I'd say that every team has decisions that don't go their way in nearly every game, in which they thought it should go their way. Most of them probably don't lead to anything, or stop a major thing from happening, so it largely gets forgotten.
I watched the Utd game yesterday, and was cursing the linesman when he flagged Dalot offside (score 1-1 at this point) as he ran into the box from the left wing and had a chance to put in a dangerous pass (or maybe even shoot himself). I assumed he'd be miles offside, but replays showed he wasn't offside at all. Big important game, that sort of thing has legs for criticism. But, against Man Utd at the moment, it is largely irrelevant as the team are that bad that a few dodgy decisions like that really seemed to be pointless in arguing about. There are plenty of times where Utd players are getting barged over and often referees seemed to let play go, but when an opponent goes down easily they are instantly given a free kick. Moan about it at the time, but again all the attention is on how poor Utd are after the game that refereeing in the game is largely forgotten.
Incidentally, has Taylor only refereed 2 Forest games this season, and 4 last season?
In the last 12 months he been ref in 4 of their games
Twice against Newcastle, One against West Ham and one against Soton
The players didn’t also help themselves yesterday with the amount of squealing and throwing themselves to the ground both sides were doing