Finale to the Oxford game was very controversial today:-
- Bradford miss a last minute sitter from 6 yards - poor shot under pressure from defence
- We break from a goal kick and score on the counter attack to go 1-0 up 4 minutes into injury time
- Celebrations were mental and Bradford left deflated and bottom of the league
- Ball put back on the centre circle and Bradford resume with seconds to play
- Ref stops game out of nowhere, consults the far side linesman and then disallows the goal and then awards a penalty to Bradford WTF!?
- Ref changes his mind, cancels penalty and orders goal kick to be re-taken because of possible encroachment after not being convinced it was a penalty on lino's advice
- 4th official then tells ref to cancel the goal kick retake
- Other linesman confirms goal was legit his side
- Ref gets confused and doesn't know whether to award a goal, goal kick or penalty.
- Ref decides to re-instate the goal 5 minutes after the ball originally hit the net
- Bradford kick off once again and nobody including the ref has a clue what's just happened
I have not seen anything like in the hundreds of matches I've watched over the years. The ref lost control, awarded 3 different things in the space of 30 seconds and then had to rely on two other officials to make a decision for him. Just extraordinary scenes.