Lambert Fumes at Penalty Decisions
Saturday, 26th Jan 2019 18:17 Blues boss Paul Lambert was left fuming by referee Keith Stroud awarding Aston Villa a highly contentious penalty at one end and denying Town what looked a strong case for a spot-kick at the other as his side were beaten 2-1 at Aston Villa.
Stroud harshly decided that McGinn was fouled by Judge for the penalty which led to Villa striker Tammy Abraham’s second goal, then waved away protests after Tommy Elphick stopped Collin Quaner’s goalbound effort with his hand.
“I thought we were really good,” Lambert said. “They scored the first goal, then after that we started to get ourselves bedded into the game. In the second half I thought we played really well.
“But the two decisions I thought were really poor. That was never a penalty for Villa and it was certainly a penalty for us.
“It was a blatant handball, I’ve seen it. It wouldn’t have looked out of place in the NBA! Jesus Christ, it’s handball! It’s an unbelievable decision. And the linesman’s standing there. It’s blatant.
“And if that’s a penalty at the other end, we’d be getting penalties every single week. That was incredible, an absolutely incredible decision that he gave. But some of the decisions were strange.
“I used to play the game. Judge rolls it, no problem. The boy goes down, it’s not the boy’s fault, he plays the game the way he wants, the referee should have seen it. That’s my gripe on it. Two big, big moments that he’s missed.”
Asked whether he feels luck is currently against the Blues, with a similar handball decision having been denied them at Blackburn last week, Lambert responded: “You create your luck, you’re just looking for things to go your way. But those two decisions were incredible, absolutely incredible.
“Then we hit the post when we were on top in the game, I couldn’t ask any more from my own team, I was proud of them the way they played.”
Reflecting on Villa and Abraham’s first goal, he added: "The first one, it’s a poor goal by us.
“But my own team came here and gave them a game, that’s why I’m disappointed because [the referee]’s missed the two big moments.”
Quizzed on whether he feels more hard done by than at any previous point in the season, he said: “There have been one or two little things. I had a meeting with a referee not long ago, after the Millwall game, and I’m still waiting for the report because they said they were going to look at it.
“I wasn’t happy with that one. But that one there, he’d given one penalty and he never gave the other.
“I’m just about to go and see the referee. What am I going to say to him? I can’t tell you, can I? I’m not going to lose any money, I’ve done that enough.
“But I’m not having that, I want to hear the explanation because it’s wrong what happened there.”
He added: “I’m not going start blaming referees, referees don’t want to lose you games. But the thing is those two decisions went against us, without a doubt.
"And we were in the ascendency at that moment, the crowd were going against them and I couldn’t ask any more from my own team.”
Reflecting on his time with the Blues to reporters he knew well from his days as Villa boss, he continued: “We’ve been excellent, we’ve been really good football-wise. The Rotherham game in the second half we never performed but we got the result, the Blackburn game I don’t think we deserved it, but every other game we’ve been well in it.
“We don’t look like a team at the bottom of the table, that’s for sure. There’s a really good spirit, the crowd have been brilliant since I’ve been at the club, it’s a great club to be at, I really, really enjoy it and I can’t ask any more than the way we’re playing.”
What needs to happen for things to turn around? “We just need to keep going the way we’re going and take our chances when they come.
“We need that little bit of luck, every team does, every player needs a bit of luck but performances-wise, I’ve only been here just over two months or so, I’m really proud to manage them and I love watching us play at times, I really do, I love watching us.”
Regarding his January additions, he said: “A lot of them haven’t played a lot of games, I think Quaner had only played a maximum of 40 minutes in about six months or something. He came on and looked great.
“The same with Will Keane, Alan Judge, James Collins, you can go through them all, game-time was really, really low. But what I can’t question is their attitude and desire, they’ve been excellent.
“As I’ve said before, you judge it by the crowd’s reaction, the crowd saw it themselves. If we keep this feeling and we keep doing what we’re doing, there are a helluva lot of points to play for and we’re well in the fight.”
Lambert has said previously that the six signings will need games to get nearer to full fitness but having faded badly against Rotherham and Blackburn in the second half, the Blues were stronger later on in the match today.
“That’s what can happen, the adrenalin can get you through games, the lads haven’t played a lot of games,” he added.
“That only comes through training and fitness levels, but the way we played today, I can’t ask any more.”
The Blues manager confirmed that the decision to recall Bartosz Bialkowski in goal was purely tactical with Dean Gerken, who dropped to the bench, not having picked up a knock.
“No, I just changed it,” he said. “Deano’s been doing brilliant for us, but if anything happens to Deano I need two goalkeepers that are fully fit. I just decided to change it. And Bart never had too much to do but made a brilliant save at the death.”
Villa manager Dean Smith took a contrary view on the penalty decisions.
“I’ve not seen them back, but t the time I thought it was a penalty, I thought Judge grabbed John McGinn round the neck," he said.
“Let’s be honest, the referee was four yards away so I think he’s going to have a better idea than any of us in the dugouts.
“And for the other one, I just thought Tommy slid in and between him and Chessy they stopped the ball from going into the back of the net, I couldn’t see anything wrong in that either.”
Regarding the victory, he added: “We could have won five or six-nil or two-one today, it didn’t matter, it was about getting a result and getting the win at home, which I thought we thoroughly deserved.
“It was comfortable until Freddie Sears stuck one in the top corner then we had a four or five-minute spell of a little bit of panic and trying to get over the line but then in the last five minutes I thought we sorted that out really well.
“I’m disappointed it wasn’t as emphatic as it should have been, Tammy should be walking away with his 20th and 21st goals today and John McGinn should also be walking away with two or three today with the chances that he’s had.
“So we’ve had number of chances today and if we were more clinical we would have made the game a lot more comfortable.”
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Swn98 added 18:25 - Jan 26
Well we all know Strouds a Melt. |  | |
blueherts added 18:28 - Jan 26
Whilst his record on paper is poor I do think at this moment PL is right man to have here
He also knows how to get out of Div One ! |  | |
Suffolkboy added 18:43 - Jan 26
I wonder what ,if anything intelligent , PL will get from Mr Stroud ?Seems a pleasant man now almost totally out of his depth : but then we do appear short of referees all round so quality just can't be guaranteed .
The FA are a pretty useless bunch , self interested and individually happy to take the rewards , rather than reinforce standards and principles ( too uncomfortable !) so don't expect any ground moving evidence of change from them !
But all this makes a nearly complete mockery of integrity : and even the use of VAR is being compromised and used as a ‘ get out ‘ for positive decision making .
Perhaps the League Managers Assn could very publicly take /force matters into the public arena ‘ though I doubt anyone in the FA or Professional Match Officials has the inclination or courage to respond !
It's a near complete shambles ! | | |
Lightningboy added 20:02 - Jan 26
Two words...Keith & Stroud...what did we expect from that t1t. |  | |
big_gaz67 added 20:05 - Jan 26
Please, can I ask for the blasphemy to be taken out of this report? Paul L apologised for it immediately after saying it on Radio Suffolk and there is no need for it to be repeated here! Thank you.... | | |
jas0999 added 20:16 - Jan 26
No point blaming the ref for our predicament. Villa should have been out of sight before the first penalty call. As bad as it was, we simply hadn't performed. Why? We aren't good enough!! | | |
big_gaz67 added 20:21 - Jan 26
Why did you mark my post -1 Jas0999 please? | | |
Henrietta_R_Hippo added 20:25 - Jan 26
Stop the whining please.... stop the inherit TWTD-like sugar-coating too btw .... as well as the hmmm ultra apt Lee-Harvey-Oswald's-evil-twin-from-the-Star-Trek-beam-me-up/down-Scotty-like-future "did it!" line of thinking! --- Aye no debate Stroud is a certified melt, HOWEVER:
1) You win some, You lose some [decisions]!
It's has been like that since the invention of the refereed game. And at least until VAR takes it's "ugly" firm grip everywhere in pro football, including in semi-cozy 2 tier leagues like ours, this is the the way is gonna continue to be!
Ohh and in case anyone out there is wondering: NO there is no intricate refereeing-conspiracy with ITFC as the funny victim folks! ....Or like Deranged Donald luvs to put it, and btw astonishingly continues to put it to this very very cornered day [i.e. despite a ever-expanding true mountain of increasingly 'smoking' circumstantial evidence, innummerous indictments and/or guilty-pleas by very close associates etc. etc.]:
"THERE WAS & IS NOOOOOOOOO COLLUSION!" "OKAY?" :-) :-)
2) Villa had a staggering 23 shots!
3) Villa had over 400% more shots 'On Target' (13-3)!
4) Thus only a rather yummy-yummy mixture of: Vintage Super Bart + heroic/lucky blocking by the otherwise often beleaguered ITFC defense + a certain dose of hapless miscuing on Villa's own part, really kept us from being on the receiving end of a genuine clobbering today!
5) While certainly not the lone culprit or lone underperformer this sorry season, **undroppable**Captain Calamity ONCE AGAIN, well by & large lived op to his cool 2nd nickname! lol
6) Lastly seen as a whole and as Dean Smith rightly said above: "Villa were very **comfortable** right up until.... Sears's screamer. Then endured/survived a nervy 4-6 minutes". But as he also strongly inferred: His team could/should as eeeeasily have won by 3 or 4!
END OF STORY REALLY! |  | |
inghamspur added 20:39 - Jan 26
Stroud is a complete c**t.Worst refferee I think I've ever seen. Rotherham lost, so it's as you were. | | |
herfie added 21:00 - Jan 26
The very best PL refs are consistently good; below that level, however, the standard is very inconsistent, frequently bordering on inept and amateurish. Not sure how the review process works, or whether assessors are present at every game. Clearly managers have an input, but of course any comments they make will be judged against the game's outcome. But, as professional employees, there should surely be a robust mechanism in place to ensure poor refs' performances are identified and acted upon. Effective refereeing requires the cooperation of all managers and players; if respect and confidence are eroded by sub-standard performances, then the whole game suffers.
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cornishblu added 21:24 - Jan 26
Just seen it on the telly ....dreadful...3 points taken off us today...as Holloway said ref git both decisions wrong ...heads up lads COYB | | |
cornishblu added 21:29 - Jan 26
Ps.,,.what planet are fellow board members on when someone asks for blasphemy to be taken out of a report and they get marked down....where's the resoect for other supporters beliefs and requests | | |
ArnieM added 22:07 - Jan 26
Blatant DIVE by the Villa player directly in front of Stroud - How the F luck can he give s prndlty !!!! Player should have been booked for simulation. That tossa of s ref cost us the game today ! |  | |
CavendishBlue added 23:20 - Jan 26
What kind of string do we keep in this case then.....? | | |
Carberry added 07:11 - Jan 27
I know the manager has to remain positive but once again Lambert struggles to connect with reality, 'I love watching us play', we are really excellent and just need a little bit of luck is testing his credibility. I've come to the assumption that these kind of utterances are for his own self esteem, remember he came here on the back of a long losing streak and that hasn't changed. All my teams only play one way, attacking football, well in circumstances like this you might like to review that? | | |
Dissboyitfc added 07:45 - Jan 27
2 shocking Decisions, was at the game and couldnt see the penalty they were awarded, but having watched it back its an unbelievably soft decision by the ref. Our shout i did see and i was right in line with it as was the referees assistant a shocking decision not to award it!
But i have to say it was a bad day for good decisions out on the pitch, the first bad one was Barts indecision to come out for the free kick, i was in line with the six yard area, you could see he thought about going then changed his mind, had he have gone for it he would have got it! From that moment we were chasing the game! he did make some good saves throughout the game and glad he is back! Decision making is where our keepers fall, both can be great shot stoppers ( reflex saves ) but if they have time to think its another story.
Villa were the better team until they went 2-0 up then i thought we were on top especially after we scored.
Final point, Dean Smith would be fuming if those penalty decisions cost his team, they certainly cost us, its fine margins that are costing us, had the ref got the penalty shouts correct we could now be sitting 4 points from safety! |  | |
GSH71 added 09:25 - Jan 27
We are definitely down now I feel, I think league 1 will be bloody hard to get out of . A lot of players may not resign up to next season. So I think it will also be a struggle next season. | | |
JimmyP45 added 13:23 - Jan 27
I know Villa had a lot more chances and possession than us, by I definitely feel in the last 5-6 games or so, the referees have been out to get us. Most refs have been absolutely appalling and one sided and results could have been very different if they had been more fair on us. | | |
senduntd added 13:51 - Jan 27
In fact possession wise we won 55% to 45%. | | |
marco007 added 13:59 - Jan 27
Dean Smith...you are a disgrace and an absolute rose tinted spectacles idiot!
If that was a penalty we may as well go to zero contact and there would be 5 penalties per match! | | |
Bluearmy_81 added 16:40 - Jan 27
Total net spend on players over last 6 seasons, minus 16.5 million. No other fans would be so accepting and patient in the face of this sort of underinvestment 😡 | | |
ChrisFelix added 17:22 - Jan 27
Most sports are played with good sportsmanship. I suppose the aussies at cricket are one of the few exceptions. So why is that football continues to produce players who cheat. Its nothing new & it's not the referees fault. Surely it's down to the managers & the powers who run our game to do something about it | | |
Carberry added 18:47 - Jan 27
And here's confirmation of that from another source, Bluearmy:
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