Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
Interesting people are now saying nobody in the ground minded at the time.

However the reaction towards the ref during and post game inside the ground suggests different. Id say most fans booing the ref (this wasnt normal booing) were actually completely unaware of the offside goal! However his overall performance deserved that reaction anyway. Lawnmower is right. This isnt about the offside goal.

Don’t know why people are making such a big thing about a slightly offside goal (not like chelseas) we scored 5 months ago either!

I started this thread as i was walking out the ground. Yes i had seen a screenshot of the goal at the time but hadn’t seen anything else. That just topped it off for
me. My anger at the ref was high enough anyway. Again lawnmower is probably right about the inherent bias rather than outright cheating- but sunday never felt right to me. Someone watching on tv wouldnt get it- but there was something about the way he reffed and the way he was with the players (i sit in the front row) that just did not feel right and i stand by that.
I think the booing was down to the decision not to send Rudiger off. As I was sat one hundred yards away at the time with a front on view, there's no way I could have seen the offside and I would say that at least two thirds of the people in the ground would not have had a good enough view to pass any sort of judgement on the decision.

A big reason why the goal against Brighton has been brought up is that people whose opinion of Cardiff City is down to who manages us (and I'm not talking about contributors in this thread there) have had to go back that far to find an example that fits their it all evens itself out in the end line.

There has been a general feeling around in the national media that City are on loan to the Premier League from the Championship for a season. Does that, subconsciously, filter through to officials to bring about a "it's only Cardiff" attitude? I'm not convinced that it does, but I agree, Sunday was well beyond the kind of thing you get when you come out of the ground convinced the officials had lost the game for us, but then when you've calmed down a bit realise that this wasn't the case at all.

I've concentrated on what I believe to be the worst wrong decision of its type I've seen this season in this thread, but the fact that the referee got the reception he did when so many doing the booing couldn't have known about the offside goal says it all really - I still say that it was more a case of a decent ref having a very bad day rather than anything more sinister than that though.