Town’s home game against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday afternoon will be refereed by Tim Robinson, who will be making his first visit to Portman Road since taking charge of the Leicester City match in November.

During the Foxes’ visit, the Blues, then 1-0 in front, were denied a penalty when Conor Chaplin was clearly fouled inside the area by Abdul Fatawu.

VAR opted not to overturn the penalty decision, despite the official appearing to have been unsighted when the incident took place, and to add insult to injury Kalvin Phillips was harshly dismissed for a second bookable offence in the aftermath.

The game eventually ended 1-1 with the visitors levelling in the fourth minute of injury time.

Following the match, Town CEO and chairman Mark Ashton and manager Kieran McKenna held a meeting with Howard Webb, the chief refereeing officer for the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), at Portman Road with the controversy one of a number of refereeing and VAR decisions which had gone against the Blues over the course of several fixtures.

West Sussex-based Robinson will be assisted on Saturday by Simon Long and Steve Meredith with the fourth official David Webb. The VAR official will be Chris Kavanagh and his assistant Tim Wood.

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bringmeaKuqi added 17:24 - Feb 18 I hope the crowd let him know what we think of the Leicester game. The reality is that pressure influences decisions (as we saw with Tuanzebe)
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dirtydingusmagee added 17:27 - Feb 18 Ooooh sh#t
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blues1 added 17:30 - Feb 18 Reffed the Liverpool and leicester games. Awful both times. Can only hope he's better on Saturday.
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RegencyBlue added 17:32 - Feb 18 Well he owes us one is all I can say! Having said that I’m expecting nothing.
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sohamblue74 added 17:45 - Feb 18 Not good news. A truly shocking ref. Amazed that they have sent him back to PR after his dismal performance at the Leicester match.
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ButchersBrokenNose added 17:55 - Feb 18 Words fail me...
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mrmorisato added 18:00 - Feb 18 What makes these appointments more interesting is that one of the Assistant referees for this match is Mr Simon Long who used to be the Referees development officier for the Suffolk FA and is an Ipswich Town fan so I'm puzzled as to why the PGMOL has given him this appointment???......I've known him for years as he used to work on Adastral Park in Martlesham. Simon's registered County FA is now Cornwall, but I will be watching on with a very close eye as to what he gives gives us on Saturday :) #COYBs

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Saxonblue74 added 18:47 - Feb 18 Give him hell Blue army!!!
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Westy added 20:08 - Feb 18 The games when Tim Robinson has been referee have been quite fractious with too many interuptions from him. Referees are supposed to me anonymous, not the centre of attention. Hope he lets the game flow this time in which case I would be optimistic of a positive result.
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NickITFC added 20:36 - Feb 18 Abuse should commence in the warm ups
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Barty added 21:06 - Feb 18 This bloke is a complete knob head you should not be refereering at all.
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SuperTabby added 21:07 - Feb 18 This bloke cost us two points in that Leicester match, absolutely no doubt about that. I’ve never been so furious with a referee at Portman Road before. You can understand a League 1 or Champ referee being bad. But he’s supposed to be one of the best in the country. Stuart Watson’s article on it hit the nail on the head, seemed to have it in for us from the first minute. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again or Ashton will be ringing Howard Webb again.

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poet added 21:29 - Feb 18 Bad news.
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Edmundo added 21:41 - Feb 18 I hope this adds to the atmosphere. We need PR to be a noisy, partisan and intimidating place for everyone not wearing the badge.
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Lightningboy added 21:49 - Feb 18 Refereeing in general is at an all time low - VAR has just made them and their linesmen even more incompetent...clowns on the pitch and another clown sitting in a box somewhere 200 miles away needing 30 replays to justify all the corruption.
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Terrystowel added 21:53 - Feb 18 And I'm guessing he'll be determined to show he won't be intimidated so we'll get even less. What a terrible appointment!
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bobble added 06:53 - Feb 19 Another trumpite facsist anti town ref........how will we ever qualify for europe?
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ChrisFelix added 09:34 - Feb 19 Along with Thomas & Durso, another 'loved' by the Portman Road faithful. Not to forget he loves issuing yellow cards to players in blue, as seen in the Liverpool game. Let's give him a real friendly welcome
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JewellintheTown added 09:38 - Feb 19 Mrmorisato - I believe Simon Long was born in Ipswich too, & not just an Ipswich fan & worked locally. Best keep that one quiet & hope it works in our favour. I'm sure any family & friends still around Ipswich will make their feelings know if it doesn't.
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Alphawhiskey added 09:55 - Feb 19 Wow! How awful. He should never ref in the Prem again after the Leicester fiasco. You wait and see, he will use his massive ego and ruin the flow of the game like he always does. "You're not fit to referee" should be bellowed out from the start....
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Blue_In_Boston added 11:00 - Feb 19 The ire should be at VAR, as the article points out the on field referees view was obstructed, so hardly his fault. It was VAR that failed us.
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Leejames99 added 12:44 - Feb 19 Ipswich should contest him being ref if that's allowed, that 2 points he cost us vs Leicester would have put us in a better position and could be the difference although Morsy should of never let the pass happen that led to goal
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Gforce added 13:32 - Feb 19 He is a poor ref no doubt, but fans getting on his back from the start will definitely not help our cause, it will just wind him up further which will only benefit Tottenham.
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kwakaboy added 14:46 - Feb 19 Shocking for the Liverpool match and totally useless for the Leicester game. Arrogant and totally useless !!!!
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blueboy1981 added 18:25 - Feb 19 Lets not keep making excuses already ‘just in case’ they are needed - if we cannot get four, even Six points, out of the next two games, we should be ashamed of ourselves as Prem’ pretenders. Both teams ahead are nothing at the moment, other than in name only !
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