Derby County send report to head of referees highlighting key decisions
DERBY County have sent a report to the head of referees highlighting key decisions they feel have gone against them in the last two games.
The games in question are Saturday's 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough and Tuesday night's 2-1 defeat away to Hull City.
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Derby County left-back Gareth Roberts was sent off against Hull City but the Rams will not appeal against the decision.
Derby believe referee Oliver Langford and his assistants missed fouls in the build-up to both Wednesday's goals.
They say goalkeeper Adam Legzdins was held as he attempted to deal with a corner and Michail Antonio scored from close range.
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They also point to a foul on Conor Sammon only seconds before Miguel Llera headed Wednesday's equaliser.
Derby also say there was a blatant handball just before Hull won the corner from which they scored their late winner.
Rams manager Nigel Clough said: "We are sending some examples to the head of referees, David Allison, showing a couple of decisions in the last two games which have gone against us and which seemed pretty blatant and obvious ones to us.
"We will see what feedback we get. There was a handball before Hull's second goal.
"The players were extremely upset about it at the time and obviously afterwards once the goal had gone in from the corner.
"We don't think we are getting the rub of the green with some decisions at the moment."
6 Comments
by rikkibobbie
Friday, February 15 2013, 6:09PM
“I dont understand why you don't appeal againt GR's red card, was never a sending off.. But yeah its been to often that refs have been poor when in charge of home and away games.”
by sjn50
Thursday, February 14 2013, 9:51PM
“its obvious he,s not the next alex ferguson,as he,s at derby and not man utd.”
by ramATREE
Thursday, February 14 2013, 3:32PM
“Doesn't matter the games gone points lost,they won't change anything because it would be egg on there face ,what they should do is suspend them or forfeit there wages,bad decisions could and have cost teams in the past,in my view over this last week ref,s and linesmen and other officials are frightened to give the correct decisions ( example Celtic that ref should be sacked by FIFA ASAP absolute disgrace the defender should of walked from the first corner he was all over hooper but the ref bottled it.) what we've got to remember is two sets of rule one inside the box two in the playing area ,in the playing area fall over trip ,barge get a free kick rule one obstruction grab hold push ,tackle fine it's ok didn't happen unless your man utd”
by ibelieveido
Thursday, February 14 2013, 2:35PM
“IF you go to games you will have seen for yourself
the mistakes made by some of the so called TOP officials.
Linesmen ( yes linesmen ,why they changed that title i will never know )
afraid to stick his flag up before the ref has told him/her to...
Suisseram you sound very much like a red ...are you ?...”
by MISTAWOOD
Thursday, February 14 2013, 10:09AM
“What will this, or any report achieve though??
Even if the head of Refs says "Yep, my boys got those decisions wrong" it doesn't change the results.
You can give refs as much training as you like, show hours and hours of footage and bang on for ages as to how decisions SHOULD be made - but when it comes to game time a ref makes his decision in an instant based on what he can/can't see from the angle he's at.
I'm all for goal line technology, and thankfully it looks to be arriving, but as frustrating as it can be to accept - refereeing decisions are subject to human error, just like how players can make a wrong decision during a game/mis-control, misplace a pass, pass when they should shoot/shoot when they should pass etc etc.”
by SuisseRam
Thursday, February 14 2013, 9:24AM
“Easier for NC to keep blaming refereeing decisions than for him to start accepting that he is completely out of his depth, we all know that the Officials in English football are extremely poor, in fact you could argue that they are some of the worst in the world, however at the end of the day if NC continues to keep getting his tactics wrong then Derby will keep under performing and will continue to stagnate.
He has been at the helm now for just over 4 years, admittedly he has done an OK job of rebuilding through youth and managed to reduce wages etc. etc. and at times no one can argue that Derby do play some attractive football, however I don't believe he is capable of taking the next step and pushing the team on, come on GSE time for a change please, let's have someone like Nigel Adkins at the helm, someone with proven promotional skills.
I'm sorry to say that if NC remains as manager long term then we will continue to be nothing more than a mediocre mid table Championship Team.
As much as people may hope, NC is not going to be the next Alex Ferguson so no point in giving him any more time. I still think he has value for the club, he just needs moving to look after the Academy.
Would love NC to prove me wrong and get us promoted, however I just don't see it happening.
Up The Rams!!!”