Interesting Blog - Referee Appointments

[Vinny1967]

http://diminbeirut.typepad.com/

Read the link provided in frist paragraph before continuing.

Asks some good questions

[Top Londoner]

The stats for Howard Webb are intriguing, especially after he saw the RvP elbow incident last weekend, yet no further action being taken.

[rudytel]

Interesting stuff indeed...he's labelled it corruption which is a bit strong for me. No surprise Red nose has used his
Influence to manipulate this kind of process. Ol Fergie been around the block, knows every trick in book!

[mcdowell42]

On this theme, if RVP was still an arsenal player would he have been charged by the FA

[Top Londoner]

On this theme, if RVP was still an arsenal player would he have been charged by the FA

If it happened in a game against Utd and Webb was in charge? You betcha !!!

[northbank123]

Silly of Pardew to think he gets to decide when the FA act, only the Dark Lord may do that.

Some of the stuff in there is exaggerated but the point about referee appointments is completely valid. How is it defensible for the FA to stop allocating United a certain ref because Ferguson disagrees with a decision he's made? I don't think it is really much of an exaggeration to call it "corruption" that Ferguson has an approved list of referees from which the FA must select an official for United games, and that he can just come out and lambast a ref and will get away scot-free or a token fine whilst getting his way.

But then again this is hardly new, he's been bullying the FA for decades now.

[Vinny1967]

Yeah I agree he has been bullying the FA and journalists from day one and I always wondered what stories would eventually come out when he retires from journo's afraid to speak now to protect their access.

The refereeing appointments raise a serious question. Am not sure there is 'corruption' per se, but if we were to remove the name Manure from those articles and replaced it with Juventus, Madrid, Marseille I wonder what people's reactions would be.
Nothing would surprise me when we have so much money involved to be honest.

[Vinny1967]

Double post........oops

[Top Londoner]

Vinny 1967.

Not sure about day one, but if ol' red nose can refuse to chat with the BBC for as long as he did, well then

If it was Sky, would he get away with the same?????

[OneBardGooner]

The stats for Howard Webb are intriguing, especially after he saw the RvP elbow incident last weekend, yet no further action being taken.

The *word censored* has been brainwashed by rednose *word censored* - so that anything that even hints of being dodgy - if it's done by a *word censored* wearing a mancsum shirt he just doesn't see it!

[StuartL]

Yeah I agree he has been bullying the FA and journalists from day one and I always wondered what stories would eventually come out when he retires from journo's afraid to speak now to protect their access.

The refereeing appointments raise a serious question. Am not sure there is 'corruption' per se, but if we were to remove the name Manure from those articles and replaced it with Juventus, Madrid, Marseille I wonder what people's reactions would be.
Nothing would surprise me when we have so much money involved to be honest.

Exactly, money talks and utd are the biggest corperate money making machine in the game.
Perhaps we are saving our millions and millions to buy a penalty this season ?

[StuartL]

Yeah I agree he has been bullying the FA and journalists from day one and I always wondered what stories would eventually come out when he retires from journo's afraid to speak now to protect their access.

The refereeing appointments raise a serious question. Am not sure there is 'corruption' per se, but if we were to remove the name Manure from those articles and replaced it with Juventus, Madrid, Marseille I wonder what people's reactions would be.
Nothing would surprise me when we have so much money involved to be honest.

Exactly, money talks and utd are the biggest corperate money making machine in the game.
Perhaps we are saving our millions and millions to buy a penalty this season ?

[DB10GOONER]

The words "interesting" and "blog" just don't work in the same sentence. Now, if you'd written "vanity" and "blog" it would've worked.

[skizz_b]

absolute madness. not surprising, but how it's gone this long without an investigation is madness.

[highburyJD]

isn't picking refs pretty much what Calciopoli was all about?
was 'corruption' enough to get teams relegated there!