posted Jul 16, 2008

and the various FAs get tough over bans for players back-chatting/screaming/abusing referees
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Maybe if the referees just used the sanction already available to them.

Referees can book ANY player who shows dissent by word or deed.

So why do they not do it?

Referees cannot compalimn that they are not respected on the pitch, that they face an endless barrage of abuse and dissent if they are not going to do something about it.

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posted Aug 7, 2008

It's not about the captain's of the teams having to talk to referee. The whole squad and managers in all grassroots level's need to know the basic laws of the game, i.e. The offside law, yellow and red card offences, stuff like that.

Once the players have and idea on what restrictions there are, the game will tone down a bit, but with this idea, to be honest I think it's terrible. I've experienced it as a referee, and have seen other's being assaulted and abused. It's not the referee's who need help... it's the players!

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posted Sep 11, 2008

Until the officials stop making the Man Utd players particularly Rooney exceptions then why should they expect respect? for far too long now Rooney has got away very lightly as far as verbal abuse is concerned, its about time the officials showed some bottle and started to clamp down on him..........

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posted Sep 11, 2008

Wicken1301,,,,
your suggestion looks good but will you be able to eradicate favourtism towards MUFC when it comes down to decisions such as dishing out red cards to persistent offenders? Utd have quite a few of them but hardly ever get disciplined - MORE HONESTY AND CONSISTENCY IS REQUIRED.....

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posted Sep 14, 2008

Having just watched Match of the Day, the game could be greatly helped by the support of so called experts and commentators or better still to perhaps give them their own littlle room away from the spotlight where no one has to listen to their nonsense.
To suggest that John Terry should not have been sent off at Man City is hypocritical of Lawrenson and Hansen to say the least, when they go on about using common sense, spirit of the game etc.
What they (and Terry and Lampard) are attempting to do is use the letter of the law to escape punishment of what was nothing short of a rugby tackle, it shouldn't matter whether that foul was committed where it was or in the opponents penalty box it was a rugby tackle and those idiots suggesting it should be only a yellow card are promoting the use of that kind of challenge because you will not be sent off if you do so.
Off course Vidic was lucky to stay on against Liverpool but just because one gets a yellow doesn't mean the other should as the experts somewhat childishly suggest. The Vidic decision was wrong but refs just like Hansen and Lawrenson to name two get things wrong, there is too much rubbish spouted by over paid idiots like these two in their cushy jobs.
Without referees you have no game, encouraging the likes of John Terry and others to continue using rugby tackles as a means of defence you also have no game.
From what I saw the most sensible comment came from Felipe Scolari would your experts prefer to argue the case with him or me?

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posted Nov 20, 2008

There is no need to determine whether to start at the top or bottom. Attack on all fronts. It will be very difficult to reverse the decline in behaviour because it is so entrenched into todays game. Managers and players claim to have no respect for referees who get so many important decisions wrong yet they spend most of the game trying to make the ref give the wrong decision.

They claim corners and throwins knowing they touched the ball last. The dive for free kicks and penaties. They use their hands on the ball and opposing players. Then when the ref makes a mistake they are up in arms. Players should make the refs job easier by stopping this blatant cheating.

I can understand the arguement that you do not want to stop the flow of the game by referring decisions to a fourth official but there is no reason why a TV panal with the benefit of slow action replays cannot issue corections during the game. They could for instance issue yellow cards for offences not seen by the ref. They they could award penalties. You may as well let them decide all penalty decisions because they could do so in less time than the current arguements take

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posted Nov 29, 2008

And another thing, lets rid the game of the term 'PROFESSIONAL FOUL' I heard the term used today on the FS, we need to promote honest hard aggressive skilled tackling, just as we were taught at school, not justify what is for the most part a physical assault. Why not refer to it as 'An action designed to appear as a legitimate tackle and accepted by the casual observer, but which is rightly identified as a physical assault by an informed observer, carried out by a player who has the gaul to promote himself as a 'Professional' or is that a little long winded,.Use appropriate accurate language and denounce second rate defending, not endorse a poor skill level with a term which appears to justify the action. If not we will end up with the product we deserve.

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posted Dec 21, 2008

It doesn't matter who speaks to the ref the referees need to earn respect by getting basic decisions correct.
Howard Webb ignored a deliberate elbow on Van Persie in the first half but sent Adebayor off for an accidental contact. Very soon Referees will be turning football into such a non contact game that Netball will be more interesting to watch !!!!!

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posted Mar 23, 2009

If ever the FA needed to take note of how their respect campaign should be starting at the top rather than at the bottom it was Man Us players behaviour on Saturday against Fulham. The diving, petulance and hounding of the referee was disgaceful and a terrible example to the thousands of misguided youngsters who look at the mighty Man U team as their heroes.

Cristiano Ronaldo in particular was guilty some of the worst behaviour I have ever witnessed from a professional footballer. Arguing every decision that went against him, diving repeatedly to win free kicks and presumably to get fellow professionals bokked or sent off is despicable and should be punished retrospectively by the FA.

Other Man U players ran more than 50 yards to berate the referee whenever he gave a decision against them haranguing him in an attempt to sway his future decsisions.

Then to cap it all their manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the great names in the game, questions the referees decisions and makes derogatory remarks towards his character.

I was impressed by Mr Dowd overall on Saturday for keeping his cool while under all this pressure and apart from believing he could and should have sent Ronaldo off for his constant dissent and he should be praised for not giving in to the pressure from the miggest team in the country.

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posted 4 Weeks Ago

I did suggest, a couple of seasons ago, applying a few 'no-tolerance' weekends of refereeing in a football league that was getting out of hand - a work-to-rule'. That is to say, booking for every dissent, sending off for all foul language, etcetera.

I was informed that it wouldn't work because most refs (my so-called colleagues) wouldn't do it and because it would cause too much danger to those of us who did do it.

So - there we have it - those of us who might want to ref according to ALL the laws of the game, as they are written, even just occasionally for a specific purpose, are told that we shouldn't. No wonder there's no respect in football.

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