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       Stoke v QPR - M Donohue
   DIR By: MKRef
       Date: January 17, 2026, 12:55 pm
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       The moderator's might be busy here but I thought Hendo's 'Worst
       Ref Performance Ever' thread was in relation to Matt Donohue
       this afternoon.
       It was a poor game, where QPR came for a point, but were aided
       by being allowed to break play up with time-wasting and tactical
       timeouts - the GK going down 'injured' to get treatment after 20
       mins when nobody had been around him.
       There were 3 KMIs, all of which he has failed to correctly
       identify, as he did with a couple of SPA offences, which he
       didn't caution despite booking players willy-nilly for holding
       at corners and dissent.
       KMI 1: A Sorba Thomas goal-bound header is blocked by Mbengue
       with his arm in an unnatural position, away from the silhouette.
       Donohue waved the appeals away and booked Stoke's Cisse for his
       appeal. At that point, Mbengue had already been booked as well.
       KMI 2: Jimmy Dunne's challenge on Mubama that saw him
       stretchered off with a season-ending injury. Looked pretty poor
       and gave just a caution.
       KMI 3: Richard Kone looks at Ben Wilmot under a high ball then
       thrusts his elbow into the defender's head. Only a yellow card.
       Given Tanganga's red for Sheff Utd, this was assault and any
       professional referee has to spot that it's a red card.
       Donohue's authoritarian style doesn't help. And, for me, he
       doesn't protect players and is a threat to their wellbeing. That
       was highlighted by Mubama's season-ending injury.
       He also must have had a new watch for Christmas given the amount
       of times he pointed to it to try and get QPR to move the game
       along. No sanctions for persistent and obvious time-wasting yet
       again. Although one of the offenders was Mbengue, so I doubt he
       wanted to show him the second yellow for that.
       For one the supposed top SG2 officials, this was a performance
       way off what it required at this level. A lot of training
       required on positioning and identifying the correct
       sanctions/restarts.
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