Andy Carroll could be facing disciplinary action from the FA this week after tearing into Jon Moss after the 2-2 draw against Leicester. Carroll gave away a 90th minute penalty for a ‘foul’ on Schlupp that gifted Leicester an equaliser in a game full of incident. Jamie Vardy got a second yellow for diving, whilst Reid won a penalty after being pushed over by Wes Morgan. Carroll converted the penalty and Cresswell’s super strike put West Ham on the brink of victory before the penalty incident.
The Daily Mail believe that the striker could be in trouble after for “questioning Moss’ integrity”. It wouldn’t be surprising if Carroll did get a respective ban for his comments but it seems that even non West Ham fans are starting to realise that West Ham have had no decisions recently, and have been hard done by.
So what did Carroll actually say?
‘I think he’s trying to even it up and a lot of people have said that,’ Carroll said. ’It was a poor decision.
‘It’s not acceptable, week-in, week-out we’ve had bad decisions. The same decisions, bad decisions, cost us games. It is eight points now that we’ve dropped. It is not acceptable.
‘I know that, the manager knows that, all the players know that and a lot of the people standing around know that. I mean, it is a bad decision, it is bad decisions he has given all game.
‘Four decisions went against us. When we had our penalty, Wes Morgan said “He doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s been bad all game.” It’s happening every week.
‘They need video evidence. Whether they’ve got the camera, whatever, something needs to happen.We could have been third in the league now if we had eight points.
‘Third and now we’re still fighting for fourth or fifth spot and we’re slipping down by losing these points.
So Carroll believes that we have lost 8 points because of referee’s. Are these decisions that he is referring to?
Chelsea 2-2 West Ham – 2 points
Chelsea were given a late penalty that Fabregas converted to make it 2-2 after Ruben Loftus Cheek tripped over his own feet and Robert Madley decided that Michail Antonio had tripped him.
West Ham 2-2 Crystal Palace – 2 points
Cheikhou Kouyate’s red card was incredibly harsh, and was later rescinded. West Ham were seemingly in control of the match until the red card, and Dwight Gayle’s late equaliser meant that it was another 2 points dropped due to bad decisions.
West Ham 3-3 Arsenal – 2 points
Lanzini’s early goal which would have opened he scoring, was incorrectly ruled as offside. It would have been a different game entirely. A late Koscielny equaliser stole another 2 points from the Hammers.
Leicester 2-2 West Ham – 2 points
Onto the match Carroll commented about, the late penalty was incredibly harsh. It could be argued that Leicester were hard done by with our penalty but two wrongs don’t make a right. It seemed like Jon Moss was trying to even the scores by giving a penalty at the end with minimal contact.
8 points would put us a point clear of Manchester City and Arsenal in 3rd. As it stands, getting into Europe at all looks like it could be difficult, but we would have been well in the race for a Champions League place.
Carroll’s comments were accurate, but he went about it in the wrong way and attacked Jon Moss individually, which usually means trouble. He may well be charged, and with a striker shortage at the moment it’s the last thing we need.
Pundits say that these things even themselves out across the season, but tell me 8 points that we have been gifted this season by refereeing decisions?
