26-10-2022, 10:57 AM
(26-10-2022, 07:56 AM)exgaffer Wrote: As an aside, the referee didn’t have a clue.
I seldom criticise referees but I have to agree that he was abysmal. Oxford came to intimidate, frustrate, foul and time-waste from the start and the official just let them get on with it.
We played 5 minutes of time-added at the end of the first period when it should have been nearer 10, and only one red card (finally on 70 minutes) was extremely lenient.
Oxford players were taking it in turns to sit down on the turf and receive "treatment" - the referee does not have to allow a trainer on the pitch. Do that once and the message becomes abundantly clear.
Very weak!