As the season draws to a close, us Ipswich fans are hoping for a miracle, not just the miracle of four teams losing and us winning (in fact the last bit is not so far fetched at all), no the miracle is that the bad luck that has dogged us this season due to pitifully poor refereeing decisions will miraculously even up in 90 minutes.

Now you may think I am just crying over spilt milk and a few dodgy offside decisions but I can assure you that I can point at six points my team has been denied due to quite frankly playground refereeing. Let me explain

2nd October 2007 Burnley away, Jon Walters in the 89th minute sprints clear of the defence and lays the ball off to Pablo Counago, a player who was BEHIND the ball who scores and is then given offside, a decision so ludicrous as to be frankly unbelievable. These things even themselves up we were told.

So somewhere along the line we would have been given just such a divine decision or the ball would have gone in off someones left testicle or the ref would have given us a goal that was not, but no such luck befell us.

29th March 2008 QPR at home score 0-0 lots of waved away penalty shouts and then the ball in a goalmouth scramble is scooped off the line by Matthew Connolly with his hand while his arse was touching the back of the net, at least a penalty (ref had clear sight noone really in his way and noone blocking linos view either) but obviously over the line as well.

See for yourself below


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Pretty obviously a goal, and given the state of the game three points to us rather than one.

Still no extraordinary luck Sito scoring a Torres lookalike winner against Ssalmonhorpe hardly counts

9th April 2008 Cardiff at home, score 1-1 ball breaks from a corner to Danny Haynes who swivels and volleys the assured winner in the 91st minute. Ref blows for pushing by De Vos, video shows De Vos did indeed push, he pushed Tommy Miller who also plays for Ipswich this is obviously a new FIFA directive to punish infringements between teammates.

We are told these things even themselves out.

Jim Magiltons comment "It had better hurry up"

This is obviously a rant against poor refereeing, not just ruining games but influencing the league, we would be in the play offs but for those six points, the goal at Burnley would probably have started us winning away.

Has any other team had such wretched decisions cost them this year, are Messrs Webster, Armstrong and Booth the worst refs (after Andy D'Urso of course) in the country are there in fact any good refs at all? Do they all hate Ipswich, is Delia paying them off, am I dreaming this and will wake up sweating? :o :blink: :blink:

Tell me about it. I think even Barnet might have made the playoffs if it hadn't been for some of the shocking referees we've had!

Brentford away. They score 2 penalties to win 2-1. 1st pen was a blatent dive, 2nd pen was about 5 yards outside the box.

Brentford home. They score a cheating handball goal and a diving cheating Gillet clearly got the ball penalty to win 2-1.

Mk Dons home. They are 1-0 up. Akurang is about to tap the ball in to make it 1-1 when he get attacked by one of their defenders for a pen and red card. Somehow the ref and lino failed to see the incident and gave nothing.

Hereford home. We are 1-0 up and cruising to victory when Devera gets sent off for no reason. Then they get an extremely dodgy penalty to make it 1-1, then acore again to make it 2-1. Then we score 2 goals but the ref for some reason disallows both of them! What????

Not only that but we've had 10 red cards this season and most of them have been shocking.

Here's to no bad refs next season!

The incompetance this season has been at an all time high, some of the descions have been frankly disgraceful and may have cost us promotion. Halsey in the FA Cup vs. pompey was absolutely bollocks, as was Bennet before vs. Watford in the FA Cup.

All evens its self up in the end... <_<

that was never a goal! :lol:

As long as hull beat you and leicester beat stoke its evened out in my eyes :lol:

Dont worry mate when you played us (Wycombe) at our place which ended 0-0 the linesman signalled our goal offside so in what should havbe ebeen a 1-0 Wycombe win we got done by the ref as per usual - but itsusually against MK Scum and Colchester. After the game he said he got the decision wrong. Anyway we have lost or thrown away a win on 9 times this season in last 5mins but only scored 2 goals in that time to salvage something - still in play offs at Dale or Stockport - Nazi stewards for a 12 or 6 kicko ff on cup final day - tench :angry:

I think it was offside, from looking at the replay it does look offside. Also in that game Akurang was clean through on goal and brought down and the ref didn't even give us a freekick, let alone a red card! That was another shocking desision!

The only desision this season that has gone in our favour was a penalty we were somehow given at home to Chester. However, we were already 1-0 up at the time and peppering their goal and it was only a matter of time before we scored our 2nd. In the bar after the game I remember saying, we've had so many penalty shouts in recent weeks and the one that does get given was the only one that was blatently not a penalty!