Disagree entirely, there are clear examples of what is considered .....

unsporting behaviour.

I'm not convinced this falls into any of the categories. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather it hadn't happened, but if the ref genuinely believed it was unsporting conduct, that's a misconduct issue punishable with a yellow card. To say it was because he hadn't blown his whistle to restart play is nonsense. We've all been to enough matches to know a ref doesn't blow his whistle to restart play at every throw in. It was a convenient excuse because he didn't like the outcome, which is fundamentally wrong.

Goal should have stood, and then we should probably have let them walk one in. Still like I say a non-issue in terms of the result, but the ref shouldn't be doing what he did IMO.

Posted By: avid_canary, Oct 28, 15:36:47