Referee James Bell… discuss

[Filo]

Mcgrath yellow carded when he won the ball by a yard, Dobra stayed down in an attempt to get him sent off

[Bald Rover]

It was the ref that walked back to the halfway line with Chesterfiled after their 1st goal, cuddling Madden arms round each other, then when Maddes put ball in net after his offside the ref actually apologised to him for the card?? What's that all about?

[andyst79]

Mcgrath yellow carded when he won the ball by a yard, Dobra stayed down in an attempt to get him sent off

You'll do well to see a better tackle than that all season. Proper old school, won the ball hard and fair and left a little bit on for good measure.

[Dagenham Rover]

“ Referee James Bell has been stood down from Ipswich Town's League One game against Charlton Athletic, after a backlash when it emerged he is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter.”

Yorkshire Post 14/04/23

Could he favour Chesterfield too I wonder?

Sounds like a totally inappropriate appointment by the FA

[donnievic]

No excuses we were shit but he was an absolute disgrace

Having said that, absolutely moronic from Molyneux

Agreed re Molyneux.
But oh my word you couldn’t describe that performance from a guy dressed in black. I can’t even call him a referee.
The linesman?? Put his flag up on two occasions then put it down, one resulted in a goal.

shocking from the linesman 1st one I think he puts it up for offside then realises it’s from a goal kick,2nd one puts it up when the pass is cut out so you either leave it up till ref acknowledges you or you wait like the do too long at times to see if it was going to be cut out


1st red Molly want fining massively
2nd red didn’t see but I presume it’s the 4th official that spotted sumthing as play was brought back,no sure on the penalty for hand ball how outstretched the arm was when it hit him
,gave a lot off similar fouls to chesterfield but not many the other way

 The other 2 of note that I think he did get correct was Flemings yellow always gonna be a yellow if he is goving a foul
 And also McGrath challenge yes he wins the ball but is follow through was similar to ravenhill at Bradford

But overall I though he was up there with the worst

[Ryaldinhio]

The mythical offside was from a goal kick.....you can't be off side.

[donnievic]

It was the ref that walked back to the halfway line with Chesterfiled after their 1st goal, cuddling Madden arms round each other, then when Maddes put ball in net after his offside the ref actually apologised to him for the card?? What's that all about?

he wasnt apologising it was more what else can I do he did the same to molyneux when he did it

[andyst79]

There's an old saying in football, play to the whistle!

[donnievic]

The mythical offside was from a goal kick.....you can't be off side.

exactly and that’s why he put it back down but he shouldn’t even be getting that wrong full stop

[bobbymax]

We were poor but that officiating was Russell-esque in its ineptitude. From where he was stood, ref must have x-ray vision to have ascertained that was a pen.

[donnievic]

Mcgrath yellow carded when he won the ball by a yard, Dobra stayed down in an attempt to get him sent off

it’s the follow through raising your foot you just can’t do it anymore it’s classed as excessive force

[Filo]

Grigg takes TSL out late,not even a talking to when it was a nailed on Yellow card

[Goole Rover]

We were Pish poor from the start, gave away far to many fouls, have to regroup and move forward to the next game, Some big changes needed

I disagree Upton. I thought that we were going well in the first 10 minutes I didn’t rate Chesterfield but then that diabolic free kick that resulted in the first goal we seemed to fall apart. I don’t think the ref appreciated his welcome on leaving the field at halftime he appeared more severe to Rovers after. It maybe just my imagination.

[Bentley Bullet]

James Bell End

He did drop a few clangers.

[BillyStubbsTears]

First red: Correct by the law.
Penalty: Very very harsh, its hit his arm in a natural position with no movement towards the ball.
Second red: Hard to know what's actually been said or gone on.

Second red, Anderson has been f**king stupid. He's gone forehead to forehead with their lad like a pair of rutting stags, they made a jerk motion with his head. Nothing violent but it gave a stupid opportunity for their lad to play the dying swan. It's a red card in today's football.

I'm f**king livid with him and Molyneux. They've acted like a pair of Sunday League d**kheads.

[dickos1]

First red: Correct by the law.
Penalty: Very very harsh, its hit his arm in a natural position with no movement towards the ball.
Second red: Hard to know what's actually been said or gone on.

Second red, Anderson has been f**king stupid. He's gone forehead to forehead with their lad like a pair of rutting stags, they made a jerk motion with his head. Nothing violent but it gave a stupid opportunity for their lad to play the dying swan. It's a red card in today's football.

I'm f**king livid with him and Molyneux. They've acted like a pair of Sunday League d**kheads.

The ref caused all of the aggression and nonsense due to to his disgraceful decision making.
It was never a pen, molyneux was onside, we had another where we were through in the other side that wasn’t offside either that got flagged for.
He was a disgrace, we’ve had some shite here over the years but nothing to compare with that

[BillyStubbsTears]

The mythical offside was from a goal kick.....you can't be off side.

exactly and that’s why he put it back down but he shouldn’t even be getting that wrong full stop

To put your flag up wrongly, then take it down and have play go on is a career-limiting mistake for a linesman.

To do it twice in 10 minutes is incompetence on a historic scale.

[Fal]

The lino also after flagging moly offside gave a thumbs up to the goalkeeper.


The officiating today was literally the worst in my 39 years on this earth. East stand Lino putting his flag up and then down twice.

Surprised Sharp didn’t get sent off too, you could see the fans, the players and grant/cliff were rattled and lost their heads today.


Chesterfield assistant manager said he got every call right, what a deluded bellend

[BillyStubbsTears]

First red: Correct by the law.
Penalty: Very very harsh, its hit his arm in a natural position with no movement towards the ball.
Second red: Hard to know what's actually been said or gone on.

Second red, Anderson has been f**king stupid. He's gone forehead to forehead with their lad like a pair of rutting stags, they made a jerk motion with his head. Nothing violent but it gave a stupid opportunity for their lad to play the dying swan. It's a red card in today's football.

I'm f**king livid with him and Molyneux. They've acted like a pair of Sunday League d**kheads.

The ref caused all of the aggression and nonsense due to to his disgraceful decision making.
It was never a pen, molyneux was onside, we had another where we were through in the other side that wasn’t offside either that got flagged for.
He was a disgrace, we’ve had some shite here over the years but nothing to compare with that

He was f**king dreadful, but he was 100%  right with both red cards and those two players should be apologising for their amateurish lack of discipline.

[danumdon]

Its always been the case that whatever the ref decides goes, it was pointless arguing with him and got Mols his first yellow.

But you have to ask yourself how thick are our players? if the ref is blowing up for every soft touch tackle for them then you need to have the discipline to prevent the ref from giving a fouls against you every time.

This ref wad disgraceful, they soon sussed that he would give a free kick at every tackle, so they just kept throwing themselves to the floor at every opportunity knowing this imbecile would give a free kick, why did our players not understand this and act accordingly, why give him the opportunity to do this every time, notice it was always against us, when they did it they got the benefit of doubt, every time, that's cheating.

It totally killed the game for us and just resulted in completely frustrating the players, leading to Mols first yellow and then Anderson reacting and getting sent off.

Will GM put in an official complaint? i doubt it, the reaction to that from all the rest of the reffing community ensures the stick by their man and give us bugger for the rest of the season, just not worth it.

GM needs to rally this squad, we are short in the determination and grit department and the players we have are too lightweight to be effective in a game like today, we missed the drive of  Clifton, he would of probably got sent off again if he'd played.

They deserved to win the game just on their application to the match, they kept the ball and had us chasing shadows, we have to regroup, look at what we attempt to do and above all learn to keep the ball when we have it which includes cutting out the really sloppy play that just kept giving them possession constantly.

The midfield have to impose themselves more on the match, if we don't or can't then get rid, we can't carry anyone, we need them all firing.

That bas*ard today set the tone very early and we as a team were not smart enough to adapt to his ways, very frustrating for everyone but as professional players they need to take responsibility.

What i don't want to see is a player like Ironside going through a war to attempt to keep a ball when he's being fouled constantly, as soon as he feels the touch why was he not hitting the deck like their players, we need to be far smarter, there's nothing to gain from playing the "game" it seems every side we now play do this, we need to adapt, or its going to be another very long season.

Ref ruins the game and we fall for it,hook line and sinker!! Shocking.

[Drover]

“ Referee James Bell has been stood down from Ipswich Town's League One game against Charlton Athletic, after a backlash when it emerged he is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter.”

Yorkshire Post 14/04/23

Could he favour Chesterfield too I wonder?

Maybe,maybe not,maybe it was more he just hates Rovers with him being a wednesday fan,BUT it does indicate what kind of person he is,willing to keep silent on his possible indirect vested interest in a game he was set to officiate,says alot about the character of the man.

[drfchound]

The lino also after flagging moly offside gave a thumbs up to the goalkeeper.


The officiating today was literally the worst in my 39 years on this earth. East stand Lino putting his flag up and then down twice.

Surprised Sharp didn’t get sent off too, you could see the fans, the players and grant/cliff were rattled and lost their heads today.


Chesterfield assistant manager said he got every call right, what a deluded bellend

…..and no doubt that the assessor will say that he got all the big decisions right too and Bell will get another match to ruin next weekend.

[belton rover]

It was truly awful refereeing. I have never felt so angry towards an official in nearly 50 years of watching.
I honestly think that he had an ‘oh I’m a w**ker am I? I’ll show you a w**ker’ attitude.

An absolute disgrace. The worst thing is, he will justify all of the cards he gave, and probably be given a pat on the back.

That said, we were very poor again.

[Bessie Red]

He was nearly as bad against us at Goodison in the Carabou Cup match!

[Donnywolf]

I am sure McCann will go right in on him here. No restraint, take the fine. Make the point.

Absolutely disgraceful even the first half, didn’t give us a thing!

Not exactly true . He gave us a foul for a wrestle on Ironside

I leapt out of my Seat applauding , thinking this has the potential to be a good Ref

I was wrong he was a Card Happy Clown and could not have been more biased if he HAD been paid

Where I sit the people always the pee because I am almost always anti Ref but some of them were purple face , apoplectic , and swearing and went down to "vent their spleens" and the Ref was given a protective shield coming off AND the Card Happy c*** actually laughed , grinned and didn't give a f***  ( job done )

[Campsall rover]

Only one word required for Mr Bell.  Incompetent.

The refs seem to get worse each week.

[Donnywolf]

I have to chalk up a " I've never seen that in all my days watching football"

A team 2-0 down are being pressed back into their Penalty area obviously under pressure

The attacking side ( CFC ) are caught offside , roughly level with the Penalty Spot and the Lino signals it immediately.

The Ref sees the flag and ffs ( only he will know ) signals advantage to DRFC in their own area with barely a player in any position to take any advantage whatsoever

Total f****** muppet

[DonnyOsmond]

Has anyone got a screenshot of Molys offside?

[The Beast]

Grigg takes TSL out late,not even a talking to when it was a nailed on Yellow card

Out of all the decisions that one enraged me the most, just totally baffled me how with all the bookings he dished out he didn’t think that deemed one, outrageous!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Has anyone got a screenshot of Molys offside?

Molyneux was miles out of shot when the ball was played. Given the length of time it was in the air, I'd not be surprised if he was onside. It was right in front of us and my reaction was he was onside. But someone a couple of rows back said he was clearly off.