Ref Moss makes himself man of the match

Leicester City 2 Irons 2

I’m not sure when refs decided they should become rock stars but it was too soon.

For this afternoon Mr Jonathon Moss made himself the man of this crazy match a with some bizarre decisions which looked at one time as if it would result in finally giving West Ham what they have been missing all season – some in their favour deserved or otherwise.

Then he wrecked everything by handing out the softest penalty in the world to possible champions-elect City with just seconds of injury time left.

What we saw was no more than a coming together of Andy Carroll and Jeffrey Schlupp but Moss immediately pointed to the spot and Leonardo Ulloa thrashed home the spot kick with the final whistle sounding immediately afterwards.

It honestly looked to have been given as a result of Moss handing the Irons a spot kick on 84 mins when Reid was brought down in a goalmouth tugging affair with  Wes Morgan off the ball.

AC made no mistake and the other AC, Aaron Creswell thumped home a glorious effort two minutes later after great work down the right from Michail Antonio.

The Foxes took the lead through Jamie Vardy who fired home a left foot shot, later picked up a yellow card and was finally red carded for a second when clearly diving in the box early in the second half.

Slaven Bilic was gutted by the result as was every Iron. We were never at our best but City huffed and puffed, often to little effect and the Cresswell goal alone was worthy of winning the game.

It left us in sixth place and still with a big shout of a European finishing position but in truth the ref should never have handed the Foxes that final penalty and was accompanied from the pitch by plenty of security.

If this season has shown one thing very seriously indeed it’s that refs alone can no longer be trusted with decision making alone.

The ref gathered a lot of moss this afternoon but I’ll tell you what – he’s no Rolling Stone.