Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby

[The Red Baron]

Referee: John Busby.
Assistants: Mark Russell and Matthew McGrath.
4th official: Dean Watson.

[RobTheRover]

He's reffed us 10 times and a mixed bag results wise.

4 wins
3 draws
3 defeats.

He doesn't look too card happy on our past record of games with him.

[Hickleton Rover]

I can't remember him having such a bad game in his past games involving us, but my God today he made ED THE DUCK look like a decent referee

[Filo]

Northampton goal offside but thats down to the lino, Middleton should have got a red card

[drfchound]

Incredibly poor ref today.

[Champagne Super Rovers]

I keep thinking we can't get any worse but then another humpty comes along and proves me wrong.  As a set of 3 officials I can't remember seeing any as bad.

[idler]

They also took a first half corner that went out by more than a ball width and curled back into play. The west stand lino stood at the corner flag just looked on and ignored it. He wasn’t too hot with his offsides a couple of times as well.

[Donnywolf]

The whole lot of them were pathetic but as I have said before MANY times,  the Players do not and did not help

However Busby was incompetent at best

And once again I say lets please please please lets have 30 timed minutes in each half and lose 80.pc of the s**t we endure EVERY SINGLE GAME

[Dagenham Rover]

They also took a first half corner that went out by more than a ball width and curled back into play. The west stand lino stood at the corner flag just looked on and ignored it. He wasn’t too hot with his offsides a couple of times as well.

It was well out and I sit exactly in line.
 I got the impression he's another ref that tells his linesmen I will make the decision

[roversdude]

Unfortunately (again) the least I can give him is zero
We were poor in the second half so not an excuse for losing but this team of officials mined some new depths of inadequacy. Their first goal looked a mile offside then the Lino seemed to make up his own version of the offside rule.
As my learned friend commented it was almost like busby had impeded the refs view of things