Paterson
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Thank you. There's another 500 or so there from the last 12 years or so. They get very low viewing figures but I write them for myself really, to stop all the games blurring into one.That was a good read.
Who would be a referee
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Norfolkred1
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No one speaks to the Ref except the captain, how hard can it be.
How hard can ot be , very hard when t wa ts like Fulham number 6 rolling round like he'd been shot, then suddenly springs back to life.
Norfolkred1
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Because some football players are fannies and prima donnas. The women footballers man up more than some players.
Nero
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It's a bloody hard job being a referee. I remember being asked by the coach of my son's team to ref a development game. That was hard enough and the players were U9's at the time!
I actually work with a lad who is a League One and Two referee. They do a good job in the circumstances. It's not just the abuse from the ground, but the shouting and chat back they receive from players and coaches. It's shocking really.
I actually work with a lad who is a League One and Two referee. They do a good job in the circumstances. It's not just the abuse from the ground, but the shouting and chat back they receive from players and coaches. It's shocking really.
Muttley
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Why did they abandon the experiment with refs walking a free kick forward ten yards a few years ago? It seemed to work quite well. I'd expand to say if it takes the "free kick" into the penalty area it's a pen too. I'd also dish out cards for simulation much more frequently. If a player goes to ground in the penalty area and appeals "makes the referee make a decision" for a pen I'd make it a binary choice say it is either a penalty or a yellow card for the offender.
Same_as_before
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A referee should walk up to a manager point at any player who had being calling him all sorts and say , You tell your team one more comment to him and its not a yellow he is off whoever it is. Pass the buck to the manager.
I watch a little local level football mainly Guisborough the refs and linos seem in control even laughing at the comments they get. There was a woman referee a few weeks ago, I think she did the Womans FA cup final, she was outstanding. A lad was rolling over and within earshot you her tell him he was looking a prat. He got up.
I watch a little local level football mainly Guisborough the refs and linos seem in control even laughing at the comments they get. There was a woman referee a few weeks ago, I think she did the Womans FA cup final, she was outstanding. A lad was rolling over and within earshot you her tell him he was looking a prat. He got up.
The F.A could change the game in an instant if they chose to protect the refs and not the players. The reason rugby, hockey and other sports have on field discipline is not because they respect the official, its because they're on the sideline as soon as they disrespect them.
Football has chosen this path.
Football has chosen this path.
CaptainsArmband04
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Probably just suggesting that mindless comments aren’t going down well. There’s such thing as a bad critic too. Perhaps we should introduce the critics critic
jonny_greenings_sock
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You’re spot on there.
I’d add that no referee in the history of the game ever has changed their mind about a decision because players have whinged about it.
It’s cultural, but a lazy copout to suggest that footballers can get away with stuff that no other sportsperson can because the game’s more passionate or happens in the heat of the moment or whatever. Combat sports are pretty high stakes and no-one ever rants at the officials, because they’d be punished for it straightaway.
jonny_greenings_sock
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I really don’t think pundits help either.
It annoys me that soo much broadcast time is given to analysing every last frame of whether a decision is right or wrong. For a while, MOTD spent so much time on referees and still do even with VAR, where decisions are 100% correct.
Decisions can change games, sure, but can the pundits not spend the time analysing why the teams didn’t score for the other 89 minutes?
It annoys me that soo much broadcast time is given to analysing every last frame of whether a decision is right or wrong. For a while, MOTD spent so much time on referees and still do even with VAR, where decisions are 100% correct.
Decisions can change games, sure, but can the pundits not spend the time analysing why the teams didn’t score for the other 89 minutes?
futureboy
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I was absolutely gobsmacked when the ref actually listened to our protests about Luton's penalty last(?) season, and after a long delay, consulted the linesman and decided to (CORRECTLY) disallow the goal. As you said, I can't think of a single other occasion when a ref has done something like that.
I also remember the time when Andre Marriner sent off the wrong player in an Arsenal game many years ago. He was right to produce the red card for handball, but somehow managed to brandish it at the wrong player, and refused to listen to Arsenal's protests. I feel I can't defend him there - he really should've been certain that he'd got it right, and listened to what they were trying to tell him. You can understand why the players might try to persuade him not to give the red, but in this case they weren't arguing the sending-off, merely trying to inform him that he had the wrong person, and he wouldn't entertain the idea that he might've made a mistake. That kind of arrogance does refs no favours.
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