egafd.com

Right then, referbloodyrees.

I'm a Spurs masochist and we've had some shocking decisions this season. The highlights have been Mendes' 'unseen' goal from the half way line against United, (probably the worst decision in the history of football), and then yesterday against Toon we had a blatant penalty ignored after Bowyer palmed away a shot in his own area. This stuff happens...although it happens to us more than most. I was at both games. I bayed for blood. But I didn't mean it.

Now Anders Frisk has decided to call it a day because of threats from Chelsea fans. Things are out of hand. The culture of assaulting refs has obviously been encouraged by Arsenal's gangbang mentality, whenever they dislike a decision, closely followed by United. Prutton's ten match ban is just part of a wider culture of seeing a ref as a target.

The point is, you may refute a decision, within reason, but you're supposed to abide by it. That used to be known as playing the game. Rules and boundaries aren't fashionable any more, but I've seen kids playing in junior teams calling the ref a cunt to his face, and spitting at him. This would have been completely unthinkable when I played at their age, 20 or so years ago.

Should a video ref be introduced? Yes. Should clubs, and their fans, who threaten or intimidate refs be penalised with a loss of points? Yes. Should Spurs be given the three points that were stolen off us? Absolutely. We was robbed.

chatterji wrote:

> Right then, referbloodyrees.
>
> I'm a Spurs masochist and we've had some shocking decisions
> this season. The highlights have been Mendes' 'unseen' goal
> from the half way line against United, (probably the worst
> decision in the history of football),

no way, Jose. It was the wrong decision, but difficult to see from the distance. Surely there were worse decisions in the history of football.
E.g. the linesman signalling that the ball went out in that Spain world cup game in 2002, where the ball was still a yard inside, and the linesman was level!

No to mention a Russian linesman calling a goal when the ball bounced on the line ))


Referees always have made mistakes and always will. The pressures they are under at the moment are symptomatic of the way economics is running (or should that be ruining?) the game. Decisions will go for or against you, and it's hard to take---but in the end, no one died. Yet.

Caractacus wrote:

no one died. Yet.

Remember the own goal between Columbia and the USA in US '94? Escobar? He got killed for that.

As Alan 'smug cunt' Hanson would say, 'Harsh, but fair'

I was talking referees. I recall only too clearly the Escobar murder---the result of a member of the Medellin drugs cartel losing money on betting.

It was Hansen that said, a few days later, while criticising a defender, "He should be shot for that!" Nice.

I recall recently on TV, a clip of a ref getting a real good hiding by some fans, I think it was in Argentina........I don't mean a DiCanio shove on Paul Alcock either, this was a mans beating.

If anyone should be shot it should be the neanderthal fans & players who expect robot like efficiency from a Human-MORONS

Football is the only game in the world in which the Ref is allowed to be abused on the pitch.personally if I got that kind of treatment from a group of marauding players I'd give them my whistle and tell them to carry on

Says more about the Game and the FA than anything else

cheers
B....OZ

Yeah but Fifa don't help either.

Take the (fairly new) disent rule where if a player mouths off to a ref after a free kick is taken then the ref moves the ball forward 10 yards.

Well Fifa are scrapping this rule from July and replacing it with..........nothing!

The reason for scrapping this rule is that apparently outside of rugby playing countries they don't understand it although surely you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work it out.

I,d rather have a shag than watch footy, try it! you wont give a shit who wins or looses, then go to the pub with that satisfied smug look on your face.
For those who dont have a g/friend/partner, crack one off, it,s not quite the same I know, but any port in a storm.

Managers get fined for saying how crap referees are ...perhaps those fines should be stopped and crtitism be allowed, but maybe the ref should also be allowed to state his opinion on how crap the players were in a game and how many mistakes they made!