3) Officials Are Just As Bad As Last Year
If you watched the Premier League last season, you would know that the officials were dire, and sadly they didn’t cover themselves in glory yesterday either.
Two controversial decisions at Carrow Road and one at Stamford Bridge stole the headlines.
For newly-promoted Norwich, they were denied a penalty and then had a perfectly good goal chalked off due to dangerous play. Cameron Jerome scored an overhead kick but had it disallowed due to a high-boot.
If the ref let the goal stand, it would have brought Norwich back from 2-0 down to 2-2, but the ref denied the goal and they hosts went on to lose 3-1 at the hands of Crystal Palace.
As for Chelsea, the debate is whether Thibaut Courtois‘ challenge on Bafetimbi Gomis was inside or outside the box. It was very close and could be given either way, but it’s another decision that has raised eyebrows already.
Not the start officials would have wanted.
