REFWATCH - QPR (H) - Sat 25/10/08 17:20 - UPDATED

[Row Z Royal]

Chris Foy "To the World, the Lord has come"

[georgerob]

Great a premier league referee.

[heathrow royal]

Could of been alot worse - Old Mother Riley for instance he has been handed the tyne weir derby this weekend.

[double d]

COULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT WORSE!!!


Previous RFC games:

PL - Reading 0 Fulham 2 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/120408.html
PL - Arsenal 2 Reading 1 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/030307.html
PL - Watford 0 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/091206.html
CCC - Leeds 3 Reading 1 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/120205.html
CCC - Stoke 3 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/131203.html
CCC - Preston 1 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/261002.html
L1 - Reading 2 Wycombe 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/220901.html
L1 - Scunthorpe 2 Reading 2 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/190200.html
L1 - Reading 1 Chesterfield 2 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/020199.html
CCC - Sheff Utd 4 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/140398.html
CCC - Middlesbrough 4 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/131297.html

Record with Mr Foy in charge:

Home
P3 W1 D0 L2 F3 A4
Away
P8 W0 D2 L6 F4 A19

Bogey Ref or what!

[S09Royal]

COULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT WORSE!!!

For our first home televised fixture of the season, we have the honour of:

Referee: C FOY (Mereseyside)
Assistants: D Bryan and M Yerby
Fourth Official: R Beeby



Auditioning for the Village People perhaps?



Escorting the Fulham mascot from the pitch after the mascot delayed the start of the second half of Fulham v Aston Villa with his breakdancing antics - a Rileyesque moment if ever I saw one


Profile from the Refworld Website

Number of seasons (including this season) as a Football League / SeLOLect Group referee: 12

This season: 33 yellow cards and 0 red cards from 8 games
Last season: 116 yellow cards and 6 red cards from 37 games

Previous RFC games:

PL - Reading 0 Fulham 2 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/120408.html
PL - Arsenal 2 Reading 1 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/030307.html
PL - Watford 0 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/091206.html
CCC - Leeds 3 Reading 1 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/120205.html
CCC - Stoke 3 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/131203.html
CCC - Preston 1 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/261002.html
L1 - Reading 2 Wycombe 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/220901.html
L1 - Scunthorpe 2 Reading 2 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/190200.html
L1 - Reading 1 Chesterfield 2 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/020199.html
CCC - Sheff Utd 4 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/140398.html
CCC - Middlesbrough 4 Reading 0 - http://www.royals.org/matdoc/131297.html

Record with Mr Foy in charge:

Home
P3 W1 D0 L2 F3 A4
Away
P8 W0 D2 L6 F4 A19

So we're due a win!

[Avon Royal]

Chris "land-a" Foy

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Chris Foy "To the World, the Lord has come"

I never knew you were a God botherer, Murky

[Thaumagurist*]

He was f**king awful. How can he not award the two penalty claims. And to make it f**king worse, when their player dived in an attempt to get a penalty off Bikey, the referee obviously knew that it was a goal kick, so why the [edit]Whoops! Censored...[/edit] did he not book the fecker.

No, I guess that because there was a rich fecker in the stands who was supporting the fakers that he didn't want to upset a potential new friend.

[edit]That's been censored too[/edit]

[PieEater]

I thought he was alright. He didn't give us two calls, but maybe there was a reason. For the penalty, he was behind the player so couldn't see the ball hit his arm, the one to moan at there is the lino.

For the dive, maybe there was some contact.

[Avon Royal]

For the dive, maybe there was some contact.

There wasn't.

HTH.

[RoyalBlue]

I thought he was alright. He didn't give us two calls, but maybe there was a reason. For the penalty, he was behind the player so couldn't see the ball hit his arm, the one to moan at there is the lino.

For the dive, maybe there was some contact.

Whilst it is true his cowardly and useless assistant could, and should, have done more to help him, Foy can not escape blame, he was not unsighted but wrongly decided to leave the decision to his crap assistant. As Coppell rightly pointed out after the game, Foy had no difficulty at all in seeing numerous handballs, some questionable, every where else on the pitch.

Apparently he has not awarded a penalty all season and, until he develops some eyesight and guts, is unlikely to do so. There was absolutely no contact for the Bikey challenge, that was obvious even in real time. The QPR cheat wasn't even capable of making it look good! He waited for Bikey to come sliding in and then belatedly through himself into the air. As Peter Beagrie said afterwards, he should be embarrassed with himself when he sees it and definitely deserved a second yellow. But guess what? Useless Foy has yet to issue a red this season too and bottled yet another decision.

I hope the assessors marks properly reflect a poor game from Foy yesterday.

[From Despair To Where?]

Both penalty claims, I'd the blame the linesman for those.

I thought Foy was mediocre, which by today's standards, is pretty good.

[chandog]

we should have had at least one penalty
i cant understand how the ref and linesman missed that blatant handball
although the linesman is being blamed (quite rightly) the ref should have seen it anyway

i was also confused at why parejo was not given a second yellow for the dive in the box
sky showed the ref had a brilliant view of it and could see no contact was made. so it was a dive and the player should have been booked

[mg1976royal]

Agree even in the ground I thought the handball from noel's cross was a penalty. Having seen it again on the tv this morning from the ref's position he should have easily seen it and not needed to rely on the lino. The defender had his arm above his head and the the ball stuck his arm to such an extent that the ball went vertical.

The linos were useless they seem to have been to frightened to give any decision that was in readings favour. (including two reading defenders being flattened in front of the linesmen only for him to give a corner to QPR). Whether it was just incompetence or over caution from the last major decision a lino gave in reading's favour namely our phantom goal I don't know?

[chilipepper91]

The thing I don't like is that, with the obvious exception of a certain phantom goal at Watford a few weeks back, referees and linesmen wait for each other to give the decision. Especially in and around the box. And as each is waiting for confirmation from the other, nothing's given.

Coppell post-game mentioned (rightly) that the ref was happy to give decisions in the middle of the park (Gunnarsson handball, at his side, kicked into him) but not in the box. This inconsistency is one that just has to be addressed.

[bcubed]

Another non-performance from a Premier League ref
I really think that when they get a Championship game they look down their noses at it and try to get it over with as quickly and painlessly as possible.
As usual Foy was a long way from the play and seemed determined to do nothing controversial and in fact to make as few decisions as possible.
If that was his aim I must report that he succeeded admirably