{"id":48967,"date":"2026-05-17T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/48967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:09:25","slug":"fraser-livid-with-officiating-again-in-toronto-fc-defeat-to-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/48967\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser livid with officiating again in Toronto FC defeat to Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second match in a row, the referees drew the ire of Toronto FC head coach Robin Fraser on Saturday, with head official Allen Chapman the target of his frustration following a 3-1 defeat to Charlotte FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chapman made three major decisions that influenced the outcome of the match, first calling off Jackson Gilman\u2019s first MLS goal after Jonathan Osorio was judged to have fouled Idan Toklomati on the cross into the box that Gilman headed into the net. <\/p>\n

The goal would have given Toronto a 2-1 lead less than ten minutes after they went down a goal, but instead it kept the game at 1-1. Minutes later David Schnegg scored a great goal to give Charlotte the lead that they would not relinquish for a second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I come in and I get five texts from random people around the country, and the first thing they say is, \u2018What do the referees have against TFC?\u2019 I don\u2019t really know,\u201d Fraser said after the match, frustrated. \u201cYou go back and you look at this, Jackson scores a great goal and I cannot believe, I cannot believe, that Oso is called for a foul on it. He didn\u2019t even lean into the player, he just stood there. The player ran into him, that goes to VAR, and the referee looks at it, and he decides it. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt just doesn\u2019t make sense to me. If Oso does anything, if he leans into him, if he pushes him, then that\u2019s one thing. He literally stood there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fraser said he felt bad for Gilman in particular, as his goal would have given Toronto FC a 2-1 lead in a very strong MLS debut for the young centre-back. <\/p>\n

Derrick Etienne Jr. scored a fantastic goal to tie the game a few minutes earlier from outside the box, which Fraser half-jokingly said gratefully that \u201cthere was no way I guess that could be taken back\u201d like Gilman\u2019s. <\/p>\n

\u201cJackson was excellent, he was a centre-back in college, and he\u2019s played centre-back more than he\u2019s played anything else,\u201d Fraser said. \u201cI knew he was going to be fine, and I thought he was really solid, did himself nothing but good. Scored a fantastic goal. I just feel bad for him, because what a debut that is, score a great goal to take the lead, and magically and mystically it\u2019s taken away from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fraser also added that \u201cit\u2019s extremely, extremely frustrating when the team plays with that sort of effort, and things are just out of their control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Courtesy: Toronto FC<\/p>\n

Late in the game as Toronto was pushing for an equalizer, Chapman called a weak foul on Osorio, sending Pep Biel to the penalty spot where he made it 3-1 to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n

Fraser was also incensed about a non-call earlier in the second half when Kobe Franklin seemed to get taken down in the penalty area, but Chapman that time didn\u2019t point to the spot, or even go to the monitor himself to review it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow Kobe is breaking into the box as the ball\u2019s being crossed, their defender pushes him in the back with his hand, knocks him over, no call,\u201d Fraser recapped. \u201cI just don\u2019t understand it, I really don\u2019t understand it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe penalty on Oso, the ball\u2019s five yards out of bounds, the guy flops. I just don\u2019t really understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last weekend at BMO Field it was Victor Rivas that Fraser thought didn\u2019t want to upset Inter Miami\u2019s star players with calls against Lionel Messi and co. Chapman was in the middle for CF Montreal\u2019s draw with the Portland Timbers midweek<\/a>, where he made a couple of major decisions including a big non-call on a handball in the box. <\/p>\n

Toronto FC are now winless in seven games, likely adding to the frustration from their head coach when he felt that things should have played out differently. <\/p>\n

Toronto FC have one more game before the summer World Cup break, visiting the Chicago Fire next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second match in a row, the referees drew the ire of Toronto FC head coach Robin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7304,318,359,21855,8453,5312,48,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-48967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-charlotte-fc","9":"tag-major-league-soccer","10":"tag-mls","11":"tag-referees","12":"tag-robin-fraser","13":"tag-tfc","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-fc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}