Howard Webb

[Vincent Vega]

Rubbish tonight, not the reason we didn't win of course, but still piss poor. He allowed too many of their niggly fouls in the first half go without proper punishment (Neville barging into the backs of both Gerrard and Kuyt without getting a card). And Jagielka on Torres twice should have resulted in penalties.

[Josef Svejk]

But don't you think Rafa's master plan to put pressure on the referees has worked?

[drewy]

I thought I was the only one who saw the Torres push in the first half Karl, it was one of the most blatant penalty's I've ever seen.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

He was appalling.

[Carradona]

He is the best referee in the game, according to the amount of big games he gets. I despair.

[Edward.]

New whistle, thats all.

[Unrighteous]

He bottled it.

[Carra_is_legend]

He is the best referee in the game, according to the amount of big games he gets. I despair.

 

Aye. He is supposed to be the only English referee booked to go to the world cup.

 

I despair too.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

He's usually a very good ref I reckon, but he was nit picking way too much.

[philyhamann]

Good ref, bad game.

[sir roger]

The ' best referee ' tag seems to have gone to his head & he has gone ' big time Charlie' and lost the respect of players that took him to the top.

 

I'm sure his assessors love him because he is brilliant at all the signals & he often reminds me of the annoying prick who appears at the bottom of Sunday morning TV programmes to help the deaf.

 

Assessors don't seem that bothered about getting decisions right , but how you put your incorrect decisions across & the patterns you run across the pitch.

[Liverpool lad]

There was too much inconsistancy from him today and it resulted in a trivial game of trying to score points with the referee, it was embarrassing in parts, the lengths both players were going to

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Didnt see too well, but i remember there was a drop-ball scenario in the first 15 minutes and i wasnt sure the ball touched the ground. If he fucked that up then he shouldn't referee again if he dont know his basic rules.

[The-Sir]

Fuck off. He didn't ref particularly badly tonight, except for perhaps the penalty shout. He's not such a bad referee. Scapegoat, thats all I'm saying.

[Fugitive]

I did not think he did too bad either tonight but I ain't seen a replay for the penalty shout yet. Is he trying to be new Collina with the baldness though?????????

[Unrighteous]

Fuck off. He didn't ref particularly badly tonight, except for perhaps the penalty shout. He's not such a bad referee. Scapegoat, thats all I'm saying.

 

I think Webb is usually quite good but I think he got a lot wrong tonight.

[Redexile]

Fuck off. He didn't ref particularly badly tonight, except for perhaps the penalty shout. He's not such a bad referee. Scapegoat, thats all I'm saying.

That's the second scapegoat post from you and I've only been into 2 threads!! Get real, Webb is a good referee but IMO he had a poor game last night maybe it's the pressure of being the prems only "go to" ref for the big possibly contreversial games. In previous seasons we've had a couple of refs capable of doing these type of games. BTW he is not the reason we dropped 2 points tho'.

[hamstrung]

He was too finicky

[Guest Ulysses Everett McGill]

He's a cunt

 

A baldy cunt with a silly name

[RedinSweden]

I thought he was pretty poor last night. he got taken in by too much and was picking up on silly little things. How he decided that wasn't a penalty, I'll never know. Not the reason for the draw mind, but he was not good last night.

[aws]

I thought he was pretty poor last night. he got taken in by too much and was picking up on silly little things. How he decided that wasn't a penalty, I'll never know. Not the reason for the draw mind, but he was not good last night.

 

That's how I saw it. I was pleased when he got the game but he didn't control it at all well - he got the only big decision wrong (the Anichibe dive and the first Torres "pen" were never going to be given) and had no consistency on the niggly fouls.

[Royal Family]

It's no coincidence that since his outburst, we've got NOTHING from firstly Mason (who is a terrible referee), then Howard Webb.

 

Another Rafa Benitez masterclass.

[Barrington Womble]

Personally I think refs come into these games thinking "how can I get away from here tonight with my reputation in tact". They don't want to start throwing round yellow cards, as they know that will end up in reds and when it does that's what makes the headlines the following day. All the rest of the country is talking about now is how we're bottling it just as ferguson suggested and Webb hasn't registered on the radar of anyone other than Liverpool fans.

[Antynwa]

He had a shit game, but he is an excellent ref.

[wiiksie]

Nobody is suggesting we drew because of Webb though surely?