I love this article on the BBC Football Page. The photo clearly shows the Ref having a right swipe at the Nantes player. Classic. What else should we allow refs to do? Punch people instead of dishing out yellow cards? Spit on players who dive?
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French FA suspends referee after kicking incident
The referee who aimed a kick at a Nantes player before sending him off in a game against Paris St-Germain has been suspended "until further notice" by the French Football Association.
As PSG broke into the Nantes penalty area, defender Diego Carlos clipped referee Tony Chapron's heels in what appeared to be an accident.
Chapron kicked out at the player and then booked him for a second time, apparently for dissent, in injury time.
PSG won the match 1-0.
In a statement, the French FA said its "technical body for referees (DTA) and the federal commission of referees" had "decided on the withdrawal of Tony Chapron, who had been appointed for Wednesday's Ligue 1 game between Angers and Troyes, until further notice".
It added: "Mr Tony Chapron will shortly be called to meet the LFP (French football league) disciplinary committee.
"Mr Tony Chapron, after reviewing the images, stated that his fall was caused accidentally. He has informed the DTA that he has prepared a report to this effect for the LFP disciplinary commission."
Nantes chairman Waldemar Kita said Chapron should be banned for six months for the "scandalous" incident.
Referees are Fighting Back - literally
posted on 15/1/18
Totally unacceptable, no excuse whatsoever.
Should be sacked and never allowed to referree again.
Respect the ref! How does that work.?
posted on 15/1/18
https://youtu.be/8_7yYFbsL_M
There’s always the potential for worse 😗
posted on 15/1/18
Definitely deliberate by the player as whilst everyone
Is looking at the ref the defender gets away with a penalty 🙄🙃🙄😜😝
Actually ive been waiting referees revenge for years,
Remember how the players all use to crowd the ref's
And hustle for a decision ,
I always wanted a ref to go all
Kung Fu and lay 4/5 of them out to put a stop it
Probably the nearest I'll get 😂😂
posted on 16/1/18
comment by thorneyfox (U5061)
posted 12 hours, 48 minutes ago
Totally unacceptable, no excuse whatsoever.
Should be sacked and never allowed to referree again.
Respect the ref! How does that work.?
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Yet if a player did that it would just be a ban for a few games.
You hate referees. We get it. But do you have to infect almost every thread with the same thing over and over again?
posted on 16/1/18
Morning Bs,If a player did that to a ref he would get a very long ban and quite rightly so,
The ref here deserves a long ban in the least,he could have injured the player.
I actually thought this was an article about refs behaviour.
I don't hate refs , have praised some on here,just don't like any cheating in the game whatsoever.
Players do it and some get punished,sadly some refs cheat , and no action is taken,
Don't like the double standards in the game,and too many matches being decided by dishonest officials.
There is no arguement that they get worse season after season.
posted on 16/1/18
Ok that’s a measured response Thorney fair enough. But what annoys me a tad is that there is a difference between making mistakes and blatantly cheating
Referees have nothing to gain by not awarding a stonewall penalty or mistakenly sending someone off unless you are implying they are betting on the match. When you cheat (eg dive) you are breaking the rules for a clear benefit.
This is no way the same as referees making major mistakes because they aren’t good enough (eg moss)
posted on 16/1/18
The ref's 45 and was due to retire at the end of the season. It's now likely that he won't officiate another game.
Ending your career on this sort of note is punishment enough, imo. Unless, of course, he's a crafty old sod and did it to set up a few interviews on the back of the controversy with an eye to starting a career in the media...
posted on 16/1/18
By the way, fwiw Hristo Stoichkov once stamped on a ref in a supercup clasico. He initially got 6 months, later reduced to just 2 months plus 2 games.
In all, he missed 11 matches.
posted on 16/1/18
I think it’s more a case of refs sometimes ‘cheating teams out of 3 points’ and of course that is a catchphrase to mean costing them something of value, but yes, in the majority of cases it relates to incompetence as opposed to activity trying to ‘cheat’.
There are some cases where refs actively (just my opinion) try to even up a game or are affected by past experiences, the crowd, managers etc and make decisions that, either in the moment or certainly afterwards, I’m sure they know were not unbiased and objective. This probably falls under the heading of ‘cheating’ a little more but again, is probably something that is close to but not quite a synonym of it (I guess bus depends on your absolute definition for ‘cheating’ and how much it links to personal benefit.
Irrelevant of all of this, it doesn’t stop this video clip being amazing.
posted on 16/1/18
it'sonlyagame (U6426)
'The ref's 45 ...'
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When I first saw this, I thought you were referring to the calibre of the ref's handgun in downsouf's youtube clip...