Their free kick!!

[Ric_C]

Finally got to review the footage

Their free kick... as soft as they come

https://youtu.be/YmHDW_Du4mM?si=pK5j20hU3VKlw_SC

[THEWELLERNUT70]

That has been a foul more often than not for about 25 years. It was always likely to be given because Cullen was in the way.

But clearly, a free kick from 19 yards out with the wall 10 yards back is much harder proposition than one from 22 yards out with the wall 12 yards away. In the end that's what the referee offered up. I don't think it cost us the game though because overall WBA deserved their point.

Other than that, for all the stick he gets, I thought the ref did fine. The two glaring mistakes I saw (giving a goal kick when Styles denied Edwards and a foul against Cullen on half way) were wrong decisions by the linesman.

And yet he's been suspended, sorry stood down this weekend

[Roosterbooster]

well no, one was gamesmanship the other was cheating

Feigning injury to gain an advantage is cheating

[chekhov]

well no, one was gamesmanship the other was cheating

The objective viewpoint of a true Claret!

[dougcollins]

Never a free kick.

Regardless of all the sh!te that happened after it.

[FCBurnley]

I wonder how errors per game Ward averages He certainly had a bunch on Tuesday