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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8022476.stm

Having seen the Man Utd v Tottenham game and Webb given a clear penalty that should not have been, it worries me the state of our refereeing. Especially now that he has admitted it was a mistake

Easy to say now tho, he made several mistakes in the game, Ronaldo should be sent off, as he should have been booked earlier in the game

Does anyone know if referees can still get relegated or should there be perhaps some sort of ban for referees based on their mistakes ?
 

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Interviewed by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, the 37-year-old added: "I could see the Manchester United player touch the ball and saw him get clattered by the goalkeeper but didn't see the extra deviation from the goalkeeper's fingers touching the ball.

I am sure he would have seen the deviation from the goalkeepers touch if it had been at the other end with, for example, Modric and Van Dar Sar challenging for the ball.
 

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:zzzzz:

1) i love how Howard Webb has become The Man for the FA - have you noticed that he does ALL the big games :D

2) however, that is a damning indictment - it shows that there are few with the ability. have you noticed the difference since they went professional?? er.............. !!

3) on the other hand, the post is melodramatic. get over it - people make mistakes. it was a shame, it was a big mistake, but the players probably made more mistakes during the course of the game than the ref did :shrug:
i'm glad he had the decency to admit to it, but what solution are you proposing - perfect automatons to referee each game? video refereeing? (i can't STAND lazy people who cry "video ref!" when their team gets screwed - how inevitable that Harry cried this - take 5 minutes to think about how it'd work, and realise how fking stupid that is)

4) i'm a basketball fan. i doubt you are - the referees in that sport are a million times worse! inconsistent, blatant bias and regularly make crucial "bad" decisions. they are a running joke in the NBA. you have nothing to worry about.
 
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............its a tough job and somebody has to do it......they have my sympathies..................
 

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GP200 said:
............its a tough job and somebody has to do it......they have my sympathies..................
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I agree and many so called super stars don't help with their attitude (Ronaldo falling over at every opportunity looking for free kicks etc). Nevertheless, there are some absolutely dreadful under performers (Attwell for example) who should be relegated to the lowest reaches of football.
 

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Mr Tree said:
4) i'm a basketball fan. i doubt you are - the referees in that sport are a million times worse! inconsistent, blatant bias and regularly make crucial "bad" decisions. they are a running joke in the NBA. you have nothing to worry about.
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if you're interested, from a column i read yesterday, http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090429&sportCat=nba :

Q: As we near the two-year anniversary of the Tim Donaghy scandal, is the putrid situation with NBA officiating getting any better?

A: Nah, it's as bad as ever. It's really, really bad. It's "I feel dumb loving this league so much" bad. It's "you lied to us when you said you'd fix this after Donaghy" bad. Let's forget about the consistent incompetence for a second -- it's not like we didn't know the playoffs wouldn't make us want to not punch a wall twice a night, and yes, that was a quadruple negative.

Here's what bothers me: The league promised us Donaghy was a rogue official, promised to clean things up, hired a new leader (the Sarge, Robert Johnson) and promised to get better. The media accepted the league's "investigation" at face value and moved on. (I blame myself as well.) So how can the following two things happen in Round 1?

No. 1: Joey Crawford reffed Game 3 of the Spurs-Mavs series in San Antonio. This guy was suspended for flipping out on Tim Duncan last season. The Spurs are convinced he hates them. Their 2007-08 season ended because of Crawford's non-call on Brent Barry's 3-pointer against the Lakers. There are seven other playoff matchups. How does this guy end up getting assigned to Game 3 in San Antonio? Why even risk it?

No. 2. On St. Patrick's Day, Doc Rivers and longtime nemesis Bill Kennedy got into such a staredown/screaming tiff that Doc was fined $25,000 and Kennedy was fined as well. Heading into Game 4, I was texting my Boston buddies, "The league needs this series to go seven, and they will screw us on the officials. You watch." One of your three officials? That's right ... Mr. Bill Kennedy. It was like seeing Ike and Tina get back together. I mean, why even go there? And that's before we mentioned the Boston Herald's report that two of the three members of Kennedy's Game 4 crew live in Chicago and greeted families after the game who were wearing Bulls gear. No, really.
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:confused:

GPG, Markeybee IS your spokesman :eek:
 

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It's on! :box::bound:
 

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Is Lee Mason the hardest referee in football?!

He's so nails that not only does he deck two players, but he manages to knock one to the ground in a different half of the pitch just by running towards him!!

https://vine.co/v/MB5lr75M6xd
 

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wibs said:
Is Lee Mason the hardest referee in football?!

He's so nails that not only does he deck two players, but he manages to knock one to the ground in a different half of the pitch just by running towards him!!

https://vine.co/v/MB5lr75M6xd
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Soft.

Players these days.
 

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finchbee said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8022476.stm

Having seen the Man Utd v Tottenham game and Webb given a clear penalty that should not have been, it worries me the state of our refereeing. Especially now that he has admitted it was a mistake

Easy to say now tho, he made several mistakes in the game, Ronaldo should be sent off, as he should have been booked earlier in the game

Does anyone know if referees can still get relegated or should there be perhaps some sort of ban for referees based on their mistakes ?
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:eek: :nutty:
 
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