Clattenburg

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 45 minutes ago
omment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 minute ago
jeez....37 attempt on goal & couldn't score...& it's Clattenburgs fault

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No one has said it is his fault.

But you already know that. Why are you such an ar$ehole?
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"After making a complete hash of the game against Burnley with his poor decisions in the second half"

OP's words...looks like blame to me...i'll not stoop to name calling though

Yeah Palace had good reason to be annoyed about him in the final.

comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
Pen was 50/50 however as he didn't give it then why didn't he book Darmian? It was either a foul or a dive

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Did darmian a favour didn't he then? Or are you oblivious to that?

Herrera did take out the player so if that was his one yellow card you wouldn't even be talking about it. You're only talking about it because it was a second yellow herrara picked up.

Is there any need for you to say and I quote, "Ya filthy Scouse Priiiick." ?

Makes you feel big and hard does it?
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No lad, I don't feel like I need to act big and hard on an Internet forum. However what I do like to do is speak the truth.

Plus reading through your inane drivel proved to me what a complete plank you are.
I mean how an earth did he do Darmian a favour?
Plus no you're right we wouldn't be talking about his 1 yellow because it doesn't fecking mean anything where as a sending off actually changes the game. Or is to hard for you to understand that deadinthehead?

No lad, I don't feel like I need to act big and hard on an Internet forum. However what I do like to do is speak the truth.

Plus reading through your inane drivel proved to me what a complete plank you are.
I mean how an earth did he do Darmian a favour?
Plus no you're right we wouldn't be talking about his 1 yellow because it doesn't fecking mean anything where as a sending off actually changes the game. Or is to hard for you to understand that deadinthehead?

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Looks like you do need to act big and hard.. shame it doesn't come across that way, more like a flacid priiick.

Not booking someone is doing them a favour..

What seems hard for you to understand is that this 2 points dropped has nothing more than a negligible impact from Clattenburg.

But continue on with your paranoia.

Generally speaking, respect is earnt not given.

I have yet to hear a single reason why referees cannot be mic'd up ala rugby. Not one.

Fans would hear all the abuse players give referees? Provided said abuse is followed up with a CONSISTENT sanction, nobody would mind.

Hearing a referee's thought process would humanise them, help fans understand their decision making and remove a layer of isolation between the referees and the rest of the game.

Demanding 'respect' and then providing no safety net to catch very poor decisions (technology use anybody?) or mechanism by which the viewing public can understand a referee's thought process, are a total contradiction in terms.

We get it - its one of the hardest jobs going. But respect for referees is at an all time low - shocking decisions are made every single week, game changing decisions. Expecting one single human with a degree of help from 2 guys with a flag, to get real time decisions correct with only one view, is a recipe for game changing poor decisions.. And giving them absolutely no public accountability just increases the distance between them and the rest of the game (players, fans, managers etc)

And the total lack of action from the powers that be, blatant, obvious action that the whole world is screaming out for and would make a referee's job 100 times easier in an instant, really does make you question whether fairness and genuine respect is what the governing bodies of football are after.

comment by sw212 (U21002)
posted 8 hours, 31 minutes ago
Generally speaking, respect is earnt not given.

I have yet to hear a single reason why referees cannot be mic'd up ala rugby. Not one.

Fans would hear all the abuse players give referees? Provided said abuse is followed up with a CONSISTENT sanction, nobody would mind.

Hearing a referee's thought process would humanise them, help fans understand their decision making and remove a layer of isolation between the referees and the rest of the game.

Demanding 'respect' and then providing no safety net to catch very poor decisions (technology use anybody?) or mechanism by which the viewing public can understand a referee's thought process, are a total contradiction in terms.

We get it - its one of the hardest jobs going. But respect for referees is at an all time low - shocking decisions are made every single week, game changing decisions. Expecting one single human with a degree of help from 2 guys with a flag, to get real time decisions correct with only one view, is a recipe for game changing poor decisions.. And giving them absolutely no public accountability just increases the distance between them and the rest of the game (players, fans, managers etc)

And the total lack of action from the powers that be, blatant, obvious action that the whole world is screaming out for and would make a referee's job 100 times easier in an instant, really does make you question whether fairness and genuine respect is what the governing bodies of football are after.
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Couldn't agree more...I have always said we could learn a lot from rugby...including sin bins and loss of yardage if appropriate...too good an idea...it'll never happen

Loss if yardage wouldn't be very practical in football, would it?

They used to move free kicks forward ten yards. Proved to be a joke.
Stooped doing it.

Stopped, even.

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 day, 3 hours ago
comment by sw212 (U21002)
posted 8 hours, 31 minutes ago
Generally speaking, respect is earnt not given.

I have yet to hear a single reason why referees cannot be mic'd up ala rugby. Not one.

Fans would hear all the abuse players give referees? Provided said abuse is followed up with a CONSISTENT sanction, nobody would mind.

Hearing a referee's thought process would humanise them, help fans understand their decision making and remove a layer of isolation between the referees and the rest of the game.

Demanding 'respect' and then providing no safety net to catch very poor decisions (technology use anybody?) or mechanism by which the viewing public can understand a referee's thought process, are a total contradiction in terms.

We get it - its one of the hardest jobs going. But respect for referees is at an all time low - shocking decisions are made every single week, game changing decisions. Expecting one single human with a degree of help from 2 guys with a flag, to get real time decisions correct with only one view, is a recipe for game changing poor decisions.. And giving them absolutely no public accountability just increases the distance between them and the rest of the game (players, fans, managers etc)

And the total lack of action from the powers that be, blatant, obvious action that the whole world is screaming out for and would make a referee's job 100 times easier in an instant, really does make you question whether fairness and genuine respect is what the governing bodies of football are after.
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Couldn't agree more...I have always said we could learn a lot from rugby...including sin bins and loss of yardage if appropriate...too good an idea...it'll never happen
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Sin Bins are another one - I challenge anybody to give me one good reason for not having them, even if just for an intermediate between yellows and reds.

A yellow card for diving is barely a punishment. Barely. A sin binning for diving, with the video referee able to assist the referee in determining when a dive has taken place? Now there is a deterrent.

N.B I am not talking about borderline cases. The rule itself would be fine tuned to the effect of 'unless there is a high degree of certainty on the part of the video official, the referees original call stands.' The point is under the current system there is practically no deterrent against a player diving, particularly late on in the game. Worst case scenario, you get a practically meaningless booking. best case scenario, a game changing penalty.

While we are at it - if you pretend somebody has hit you (i.e hold a part of the body that wasnt touched in an effort to get an opponent sent off) - you get sent off yourself.

All of this is easily, easily manageable if you allow the use of the technology ALREADY THERE - and would, over time, hugely improve the image of the game, which is currently rock bottom. Currently, I struggle to think of a single feature of the beautiful game that I would show to any son/daughter of mine as an example of what is good and proper about sport...