Very frustrating result at the Ricoh today, not helped by a very incompetent referee. You only have to look at his
record to see that he's a card giving machine.
A few minutes into the game, with our striker one on one with the last defender, he got a forearm to the head, and put in a half nelson and dragged to the ground inside the box and the ref said play on.
We then got a yellow card for a very average challenge.
Then we got a red card for an awkward 2 footed challenge, there wasn't any major contact but the Norwich guy milked it for all it was worth, the ref said free kick and then his assistant overuled him in his earpiece and he went straight to a red. That's twice this season now that the assistant has overruled the ref to give a big game decision that's cost us the game (the last being a penalty against us vs cardiff).
Then we were down to 10 men, and Norwich scored in the 2nd half to go 1-0 up.
A bit later on superstar striker Marlon King scored a great goal to make it 1-1 with Coventry on 10 men.
With 10minute left Coventry hit the post from a really tight angle which would have been incredible had it gone in.
Then the idiotic ref showed just how terrible he was when Marlon King tackled a player and bought him down (foul). The ref was running up pitch at the time and didn't see the challenge, but when he turned around he saw the Norwich guy crying around on the floor. He then went over to Clive Platt and gave him a yellow card. A man who was probably 10-15 feet away and not even involved in the tackle or any post tackle confrontation. A complete bystander in the challenge getting booked. We will appeal that and hopefully the ref will get some penalty for booking an innocent man.
With 4 minutes to go Norwich scored from a corner after we defended it pretty badly.
Final score:
Coventry 1 - 2 Christopher Sarginson