I honestly believe I have never seen a more incompetent official over the entire 90 minutes of a game than the cretin we were saddled with tonight. Yes, we've had bad un's who've made two or three appalling decisions that have robbed us, but this idiot was simply bizarre !
Their number 9 flattened Hampson inside the first minute with what was practically a forearm smash. Ref thinks "I know it's GBH but it's too early to get the red card out." We've seen that before, but to ignore three further offences from the same player (one of them arguably a red card offence) defied belief.
Simon Grand used to be half decent at this level, but he's laughing at Chester for paying him to perform like he did tonight. Another who continued to offend as he pleased without adding to the yellow card he already had.
On the other hand, to book Hampson and Harrop for innocuous challenges after they'd been regularly fouled themslelves, and White for delaying a free kick by around three seconds, was nothing less than perverse.
You just knew we'd get mugged in the unnecessarily long 5 added minutes (4 would have been stretching it a bit !).
Quite frankly, if he'd been bribed he could scarcely have been any worse.
Heartbreaking to lose two points when the whole team had performed so well. PP has to be very careful about criticising referees, so I'm going to say it for him :
"We were robbed of two points tonight by a team who should have been down to 9 men for the last half hour, and it was totally down to a referee who shouldn't have been let loose on a park pitch with jumpers for goalposts."
Johnson and Morley will be gone before Guy Fawkes night if that Chester team is the best they can offer.