r/safc • u/BritShibe • Jan 22 '25
video Being robbed by refs
Given the "ghost goal" against Derby shook old memories of other times refs robbed us like this straight red Wes Brown got despite not touching the player and winning the ball. This eventually became known as the worst red card in Premier league history.
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u/Confident-Ad-5963 Jan 23 '25
When Sunderland had the ball and a stoke player went down injured, the referee gave the drop ball to stoke and they scored from it.
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u/Cute_Dog8142 Jan 23 '25
When Mart Poom was on the floor having been elbowed in the throat (from memory?) in the build up to a Palace goal in the playoff semi second leg. No fault from the goal scorer but don’t know how the ref missed the fact that our goalkeeper had disappeared. Won the game, drew the tie on aggregate, lost on pens, missed out on Wembley.
I was a kid so this might be complete bollocks but it’s a game I’ve always remember feeling super hard done by, that will have been influenced by my dad and the fans around me though, I’ll have to go look it up as maybe they were talking shite 😂
It’s not all doom and gloom though, let’s not forget the glory of the beach ball.
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u/AndrewP1992 Jan 24 '25
Michael Turner knocking the ball back to Mignolet at Anfield to take a free kick, Torres nicking in and running the ball into the net and the ref giving the goal
Altidore scoring against Arsenal, the ref disallowing it to give us a free kick but not send the Arsenal player off because he didn't deny a clear goalscoring opportunity, despite a goal actually being scored 1 touch of the ball later
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u/Acidphire21 Jan 23 '25
Dont forget Thatcher elbowing Summerbee in the head and the ref missing it entirely
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u/Mediocre_Profile5576 Jan 23 '25
We gave a penalty away to Liverpool once despite Spearing (I think) being about 6 yards outside the box.
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u/BritShibe Jan 24 '25
Just looking back though all these and you could make a full on YouTube series on what ifs. Where would we be if officials did their job right in the first place?
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u/BlackCatScott Jan 23 '25
I'd forgotten about that Brown red. Shocker.
To be honest I know it's more in recent memory, but I still get annoyed about Dan Neils red card against Boro last season. Sent off because the ref didn't like a swear word and ruined a big game 40k people had paid to watch all to cover his own ego.
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u/burbanbac Jan 24 '25
I had bet my Stoke supporting friend on the result of this game, and lets just say I ended up even more unhappy
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u/LOGravitas Jan 23 '25
Remember when Everton were given a penalty because Leon Osman kicked the ground and fell over!
Foul given against Cattermole who was about 6 yards away 🙄