The referee made some controversial but close calls in Sunday’s game,including sending off Jamie Vardy, but pundits and former referees should know betterJon Moss did not have to wait until he had blown the final whistle on Leicester City’s frantic 2-2 draw with West Ham United before being hit by a tidal wave of abuse and criticism. Such is the depressing predictability of contemporary society an explosion of opprobrium had already shuddered through social media while the referee was busy having his mind boggled by the Wrestlemania-style grappling going on in the King Power Stadium penalty areas.
Peter Schmeichel called Moss the “worst ever” referee and asked hyperbolically whether he was “on drugs” while fans of both sides got to work publicly shaming the 45-year-old as he went about his job in an enthusiastic fashion. After the match he had to contend with the former head of referees Keith Hackett describing the game as being “too broad” for him and his display as the “worst refereeing performance I have witnessed all season”, and Graham Poll scrutinising every decision in his newspaper column and heed Halsey accusing Moss of having “lost the plot”.
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Source: theguardian.com