Laughable :-)
Laughable :-)
"Arsenal have until 3 February to respond to the FA charge."Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Tell them to **** right off...
I understand the response will simply be a series of photographs of precisely the same thing happening in 50 other games.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
With just the words 'grow up' at the bottom :-)
They had the chance to bury this embarrassing incident but chose this instead. Pay the fine and move on. Whole thing is incredibly petty.
We need to get back to the days when the officials did it for free and were therefore not expected to know anything about the Laws of the game, the rules or even indeed, football in general. The days when even an unashamed disdain and contempt for the game and all who played it was considered a healthy, desired advantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Better that than the humourless, faux-righteous, unironic ****show we have nowadays.
we'll have someone sent off for that in the next few games. most likely this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
There's a good image that shows half the Wolves team surrounding the ref with 1 Arsenal player in the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
It is the age old problem though.... you can't do it, and we did it. The fact that everyone else always does it and that refs never punish it is irrelevant. If they choose to single out one team and make an example of them there is nothing you can do about it other than point out how often we are the team singled out. And that only leads to being branded whingers and singled out for more 'letter of the law' stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The timing of this charge tells you all you need to know. FA are furious about the panel overturning the red card and they just cant bring themselves to accept it and move on. Perfect example of a dysfunctional institution that has lost sight of its role and is taking things personally.
Not fit for purpose and should be abolished.
Where headmasters, coppers, and prison officers just did it on the weekend for a few extra bob and to get away from the wife?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I think they have to take var away from the refs. Have specialist var officials that are trained differently and report to somebody else.
More than anything else, we have seen in the last year or two that it isn't var that is the problem. It's the people operating it.
A sort of, US air traffic control but with balls instead of planes, so to speak ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Indeed, bizarre that VAR works fine across the rest of EuropeQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
No idea who that ref in the Champions League was. Had no idea what he was like. Literally didn't notice him. Controlled the game, checked decisions, focused on his job.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
When I was young we were told our refs were the best in the world and when you watched World Cups it seemed true. Now it is precisely the opposite. Jumped up little tossers with no natural authority, no idea how to talk to people or control situations, and seemingly no notion of self awareness or reflection.
European refs just seem to get on with it. Can we not have that? :-(
They talk about how complicated the laws, guidance and instructions are and how nobody else can understand them. Have you read them? A ****ing child could understand them, and probably implement them better.
And just one more part of a rant, and then I will stop. I had to sit through Carragher, Neville, Redknapp et al labelling anyone who talks of conspiracy or corruption, or even bias, as the tin foil hat brigade. Sorry, but wouldn't they have said that about the international game 15 years ago before all the stuff about FIFA and UEFA came out?
We know football is corrupt beyond belief. It is remarkably arrogant to think that our league, the richest in the world and awash with international money, is immune to this, and that the very idea of it is crazy.
Although the refs probably need more diversity, not less. All middle aged, white, blokes from the North West.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
:shrug: One of the linesmen is a woman, so to speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
You cannot get much more diverse than that and I'm not sure anybody wants to.
Why does it matter whether players come close to the ref, so long as they don't do this
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We must always reserve the right to appoint the best man for the job, regardless of sex :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Meh, they don't even make decisions, they just wait for the ref. Seen loads of fouls recently (right by them) which they don't flag for until the ref gives it, then they furiously start waving their flag.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Been happening for a while - see the lino at Old Trafford in the "Mike Riley" game (I - no need to respond)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Are you referring to the lino who looked right at the horse faced c*nt as he planted his studs into Cole?s knee, then started to raise his flag to alert Riley to the clear red card, then quickly put his flag back behind his back as he realised where he was and what he was about to do and that he could t possibly go through with it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
That lino, Luis?
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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I'll not be coming out of retirement any time soon, la. :thumbup:
That's the oneQuote:
Originally Posted by WES