Here is a thread to honor the greatest referee in English football history and Chelsea's 12th man. From what I understand there is currently a petition signed that has over 40k signatures to ban this man from officiating anymore of our games.

See below a list of examples of his great refereeing. Who can forget sending Kovacic off for having his foot stamped on. 

https://www.givemesport.com/1744556-reece-james-red-40000-chelsea-fans-sign-petition-about-anthony-taylor-after-liverpool-game

Full thread

https://www.givemesport.com/1744442-liverpool-11-chelsea-twitter-thread-of-anthony-taylors-wrong-decisions-reemerges

Edit: Have to give a special shout out to Alonso who gets fly kicked and a free kick is given against him ahh good times

Edited August 29, 20214 yr by LongtimerLurker

If he ever comes to the Bridge to referee any game, I hope we make sure he knows he’s not welcome to our home and make his 90 minutes hell.

We don't make a big enough deal about this, and is seen as football fan tribalism and dismissed because it is Chelsea.

We need the people in the club to point it out. Players, manager, board. Heck given Roman does interviews now a few words from him could do wonders.

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

We don't make a big enough deal about this, and is seen as football fan tribalism and dismissed because it is Chelsea.

We need the people in the club to point it out. Players, manager, board. Heck given Roman does interviews now a few words from him could do wonders.

I’m a bit pissed of the Supporters Trust hasn’t bothered to highlight it. We need Mikel to get him taken off Chelsea duty a la Clattenburg. 

2 hours ago, Munkworth said:

I’m a bit pissed of the Supporters Trust hasn’t bothered to highlight it. We need Mikel to get him taken off Chelsea duty a la Clattenburg. 

We have someone who is involved with the supporters trust I believe. That right @Boyne ? Able to bring this up there?

Edited August 30, 20214 yr by axman2526

No thanks, calling for a boycott of a particular referee and now wanting the CST to get involved is genuinely one of the most cringeworthy things I've heard of recently.

Taylor might well be incompetent and has made some disgraceful decisions but this sort of behaviour is essentially mob bullying.

Somehow I feel many clubs have this same thread in their respective forums. 

Agenda against Chelsea sh*te doesn't sit well with me. 

James thing for me was a mistake that didn't consider football as a contest. First hit on James' arm that stopped the ball going in James couldn't do anything with. The second swing with his arm probably made the ref go for red. Did James deserve a red. Never in a million years. Even Liverpool players thought it was extremely harsh. Taylor made a mistake and that is it. It cost us probably a win as Liverpool didn't have one clear cut scoring chance in the game. 

I would leave Taylor alone and hope something like this doesn't happen to us again. 

3 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

No thanks, calling for a boycott of a particular referee and now wanting the CST to get involved is genuinely one of the most cringeworthy things I've heard of recently.

Taylor might well be incompetent and has made some disgraceful decisions but this sort of behaviour is essentially mob bullying.

I agree. Can't stand the bloke and his awful refereeing has cost us dearly in the past, but this a) won't work and b) comes across as small-time and petty. Bear in mind also that he was the referee for the Eriksen incident during the Euros - there's a chance of a media backlash. I'm actually somewhat grateful that Arsenal being awful has kept us off the back pages.

That said, we should by all means sing rude songs about him whenever he refs another one of our games.

Agreed. Calling for a ban/boycott is incredibly Scousish. Let’s just say that:

Anthony Taylor

does not like us

and the feeling Is mutual*

 

Make of this what what you will:

 

 

*Haiku of the day

37 minutes ago, Upsetter said:

Agreed. Calling for a ban/boycott is incredibly Scousish. Let’s just say that:

Anthony Taylor

does not like us

and the feeling Is mutual*

 

Make of this what what you will:

 

 

*Haiku of the day

Amazing stats. Incredible Man Utd figures. 
It’s not that surprising but interesting when you see the proof in writing. 

Well I for one has signed the petition saying we don't want him officiating any of our games again,probably nothing will come of it unless tge club speak out.

8 hours ago, axman2526 said:

We have someone who is involved with the supporters trust I believe. That right @Boyne ? Able to bring this up there?

What exactly would that achieve ?. Terrible refs are part of the game supporters trusts are concerned with ticket prices, stadium matters, safety etc not dodgy decisions against us. @Boyne would be seen as a crank if he brought it up and he's a very sensible and top bloke 👍

I don’t think the club or the CST should get involved in something like this, at least publicly…..

 

No harm in putting out about a number of poor decisions and let the mud stick. Petitions though about him are pointless and it would be better to direct any petition to the Premier League or PGMOL to have the officials give a press conference at the end of every match to explain their decisions. 

8 hours ago, evissy said:

Somehow I feel many clubs have this same thread in their respective forums. 

Agenda against Chelsea sh*te doesn't sit well with me. 

James thing for me was a mistake that didn't consider football as a contest. First hit on James' arm that stopped the ball going in James couldn't do anything with. The second swing with his arm probably made the ref go for red. Did James deserve a red. Never in a million years. Even Liverpool players thought it was extremely harsh. Taylor made a mistake and that is it. It cost us probably a win as Liverpool didn't have one clear cut scoring chance in the game. 

I would leave Taylor alone and hope something like this doesn't happen to us again. 

The anti Chelsea agenda theory - touted on a regular basis here - does not sit well with me either. Re Taylor it's probably more a case of regular incompetency, which is a discussion in general about the level of refereeing in the PL (no idea how lower leagues are faring).

Edited August 30, 20214 yr by Valerie

3 minutes ago, Valerie said:

The anti Chelsea agenda theory - touted on a regular basis here - does not sit well with me either. Re Taylor it's probably more a case of regular incompetency, which is a discussion in general about the level of refereeing in the PL (no idea how lower leagues are faring).

Most of the time it does fall in the Jose mind games category. 

However every now and again in holds water, like with Clattenburg. Just my opinion but I feel Taylor has that level of bias to him as well.

Just out of interest, how many errors is Taylor making in all his other "non-Chelsea" games ? He's a regular referee right, doing a PL game every week ?

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Most of the time it does fall in the Jose mind games category. 

However every now and again in holds water, like with Clattenburg. Just my opinion but I feel Taylor has that level of bias to him as well.

That may be the case, I don't know. For now it's incompetence to me.

Unconscious bias at worst, but probably just an incompetent twat.

13 hours ago, axman2526 said:

We have someone who is involved with the supporters trust I believe. That right @Boyne ? Able to bring this up there?

 

4 hours ago, bluehaze said:

What exactly would that achieve ?. Terrible refs are part of the game supporters trusts are concerned with ticket prices, stadium matters, safety etc not dodgy decisions against us. @Boyne would be seen as a crank if he brought it up and he's a very sensible and top bloke 👍

@axman2526 Yes, I belong to the Chelsea Supporters Trust and have done so for the last few years but am not on the committee. @bluehaze As you say, by and large, the CST concentrates on such matters as ticket allocations and prices; changing of fixtures for TV and safe standing. I can't recall the CST commenting on the performances and biases of referees including Taylor. I could approach the CST and in turn they could contact the club's board and ask them to approach the FA, Premier League and Uncle Tom Cobley and All but for what purpose. Would the FA etc appoint a referee other than Taylor? I doubt it unless there are very strong grounds and proof that Taylor is wrong., incompetent and biased. And what's to say that the team we played would be happy with the replacement especially if that person had made decisions which upset their players and clubs. @Upsetter Interesting statistics you posted above.

 Don't get me wrong, I thought the red card for James was harsh but as others have pointed out right under the current rules. We could get another referee rather than Taylor and what's to say that the replacement wouldn't make the same decision. I'm not aware of other referees losing a match because of alleged bias but am happy to be proved wrong. Referees have been making mistakes for years. A few years back when we played Arsenal the ref sent off the wrong player and who can forget Elleray's performance in the 1994 FA Cup Final. Still makes me annoyed after all these years but what can be done.  I've lost count of the poor refereeing decisions over the years. I recall the terrible decision made by Taylor in the FA Cup Final.

@bluehaze Thank you for your kind words.  

Calling for him to be removed may seem a bit childish, but it's not unheard of, and it's actually happened in the past when clubs have complained about a refs performance. Liverpool do it now and again and United under Ferguson did it all of the time. 

This wouldn't just be a knee jerk reaction either, we are talking about years worth of mistakes that has cost us points and trophies. Arsenal won 2 fa cup finals against us on the back of him getting calls badly wrong, the Sanchez clear handball that led to their goal and Kovacic getting sent off for having his own foot stood on. 

Then you have the Premier League game against Man United in 2020. Willian was booked for diving, when he was clearly caught by a trailing leg. Isn't it odd that a ref decides to book Willian in this situation when they haven't been booking players for diving for years now? In the same game, Maguire clearly kicks Batshuayi in the balls, everybody knew what he did, but no red card. A goal was ruled out in the same game after Azpilicueta was punished for pushing a Man United player in the lead up to the goal.......ignoring the part where Fred is the one that actually pushed Azpilicueta into the Man United player.

There was also the Tottenham game where he was made to look like an absolute clown for booking Alonso after Gazzaniga flew at him after missing the ball. VAR had to get involved and they didn't even tell him to look at the monitor because it was so obvious what happened. How can he be the only person that didn't see it?

Against Liverpool, he was awful throughout. Liverpool were playing tactical fouls all day, especially Fabinho, and not one of their players were booked. It's like the new rules on refs being more lenient gave Taylor an excuse to screw us over once more. Then you had Salah booting the ball away which should have been an automatic yellow, Taylor ignored that though but was more than happy to give Mendy a yellow for the same thing. He also ignored the many over the top complaints from Liverpool players every time a decision didn't go their way, but as soon as our players complained, he would book them.

The VAR incident was handled terribly. Whether you think it was a handball and red card or not, one thing we can surely agree on is how badly Taylor reviewed the situation. He didn't even look at the video, he looks at a still image from a distance and gives the penalty. It pretty much confirms that he had already made his mind up. Personally, I thought the penalty was fair enough, but if Taylor had actually looked at it properly without bias, he would have seen that the goal had already been denied with James blocking the shot with his leg, the part with his arm came milliseconds after James had already stopped the ball from going into the net with his leg. If Taylor had actually bothered to watch a video instead of just looking at a still image from a distance, he would have seen this and maybe he could have had a proper idea of what happened in that situation.

 

I won't sign the petition because it's stupid. Even if it was a serious petition, I still wouldnt sign it because they never work, but I do think the club should speak up about this. I think we have every right to voice our complaints about this and even be suspicious of Taylor's officiating. I have always hated that fans, pundits and the media laugh at others for questioning whether certain refs are legit or not. In a sport full of corruption and cheating, why is it so hard to believe that there may be a few bent refs in the game? Clattenburg admitted to it a few years back and Mark Halsey came out and said he was told to lie and say he didn't see certain incidents. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that there are dodgy refs in the game, and it shouldn't be laughed off as fans being bitter because a few decisions didn't go their way.

Jesus... Scott i need a lie down now. 

5 hours ago, Valerie said:

The anti Chelsea agenda theory - touted on a regular basis here - does not sit well with me either. Re Taylor it's probably more a case of regular incompetency, which is a discussion in general about the level of refereeing in the PL (no idea how lower leagues are faring).

I don’t think that it is a case of incompetence, I genuinely think he has a bias against Chelsea (subconscious bias is a thing now talked about HR to all employees in the UK). It’s all about how he referees all our games and how you see him making big mistakes against us consistently. Consistency makes a trend. Do I think that the complain is going to make a change? Nope, but I think that someone has to make it obvious to the fa. I don’t think the club has to get involved, we are already not favoured by them, but it is obvious that this ref has to be stopped and I hope that we make him aware what we think about him at the Bridge when he comes to referee us. He is a c**t, that’s for sure.

14 hours ago, evissy said:

Somehow I feel many clubs have this same thread in their respective forums. 

Agenda against Chelsea sh*te doesn't sit well with me. 

James thing for me was a mistake that didn't consider football as a contest. First hit on James' arm that stopped the ball going in James couldn't do anything with. The second swing with his arm probably made the ref go for red. Did James deserve a red. Never in a million years. Even Liverpool players thought it was extremely harsh. Taylor made a mistake and that is it. It cost us probably a win as Liverpool didn't have one clear cut scoring chance in the game. 

I would leave Taylor alone and hope something like this doesn't happen to us again. 

The match thread on Red and White Kop forum is about 50% posts on how Taylor f**ks Liverpool everytime.

Great post @Scott Harris