Interesting Blog - Referee Appointments

[mcdowell42]

Chelsea have lodged a complaint against clattenberg for using inappropriate language towards 2 of their players 1 of them being mikel according to SSN and BBC

[I Hate Hleb]

Did it include the word NO because those guys aren't used to hearing that?

[RNTGOONER]

Romours are that he called Mikel a Monkey

[skizz_b]

so who else lumped £200 on there being a red card apart from THIS GUY

[Top Londoner]

so who else lumped £200 on there being a red card apart from THIS GUY

Well done son. I bet that the odds were the wrong side of evens though.

It is alleged that he called Torres a 'Spanish tart'. Nothing contentious there then.
How bleeding low can the chavs go? The irony of these claims are not lost on me.

[augie]

Romours are that he called Mikel a Monkey

This from a guy who signed for two different clubs within days of each other and then tried to force through his move to the chavs cos they offered him more money - hardly the voice of integrity is he ?

This smacks of a c**t trying to use the racism outrage that is out there lately to serve his own means. This club, it's racist pikey fans and now the players have a disgraceful history of treatment of referee's (death threats to anders frisk anyone ?) and when the club behaviour like they are lodging an official complaint about a ref's performance then it only encourages the fans to target ref's Everybody accepts that a couple of big decisions went against them but refs are human and that happens in games all over the country every weekend. I havent heard them come out and say that ladyboy torres should have been red carded for his kung fu kick at cleverly

Imo the fa and the refs association should tell chelski, their scumbag players and their scumbag fans to fcuk off with themselves

[mcdowell42]

Did it include the word NO because those guys aren't used to hearing that?

My wife is very good with the word no and i am used to hearing it

[flash gunner]

Everybody accepts that a couple of big decisions went against them but refs are human and that happens in games all over the country every weekend.

You havent read the man utd thread apparently we have lost already due to the ref

[augie]

Everybody accepts that a couple of big decisions went against them but refs are human and that happens in games all over the country every weekend.

You havent read the man utd thread apparently we have lost already due to the ref

Anyway it's one thing to lose a game cos of a ref and to moan about it (webb at old shatford) but another thing completely to lodge an official complaint about his performance, allege racial abuse and also send threatening letters to a ref all of which the chavs and their pikey fans are guilty of in recent seasons

Has the throwing missiles at the manure players been totally swept under the carpet then ? Seems again a lack of responsible behaviour is being ignored again cos they lost the game and the world is screwing them - are they the victims fc of the south now ?

[highburyJD]

Flash read the original blog. It's not necessarily about bribery, just pressure.
It's empirically true that refs who Fergie slates don't get ManUre games for a very long time afterwards.
When they finally get their ManUre chance a huge decision goes for ManUre. Clattenburg was 7th in a row.

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

Putting to one side the fact he may turn out to be another moronic racist *word censored* some of the coverage of Clattenburg's performance yesterday is way over the top. Martin Samuel's called it hands-down the worst performance by a ref in premier league history. Yeah ok Marty get a grip ffs... 2 decisons; 1 harsh but hardly the most disgraceful sending off you've ever seen, the other given by the lino & not much worse than the offside decisions for/against Arteta/Suarez in the same weekend. Doesn't make it right but keep some perspective & leave the sensationalist bandwagon bollocks alone.

The standard of refereeing is piss-poor, needs sorting & has been conveniently brushed aside for too long but they're in danger of going too far overboard the other way now. Increasingly every little decision gets over-analysed to death by the press/media long before they actually bother to talk about the football. All prefaced of course by the obligatory "it's such a shame we're talking about the referee instead of a magnificent game of football" cliche. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact they're only doing it to stoke the controversy as part of the never-ending soap-operafication of football to keep up the website/twitter hits & 24-hour "news" channel viewerships throughout the week. As if Breaking News: SSN understands Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan has been seen fingering a hedgehog on the hard-shoulder of the M6 toll road isn't enough to keep us enthralled already. Same reason MoTD's obsessed with having a "narrative" – it's football ffs!

Still, cant help hoping a week-long fuss over manc bias might actually get us a soft pen next week! Which no doubt Gervinho will blast into orbit.

[highburyJD]

we need twice as many refs on a strict pre-determined rotation,
not a handful fighting for Fergie's favour and the big games

said it before but the idea it's 10x harder to be a Prem ref than a Prem player is comical to me