A collation of football-related articles and posts
On BBC Sport:
Dundee United manager Peter Houston says he fears for the game if every penalty conceded results in a red card.
Houston did not dispute Rangers’ three spot-kick awards as United had a trio of players sent off in a 4-0 defeat.
But he said: “I worry about the game and where it’s going to if we are going to have straight red cards for every incident that’s happening in the box.
“I am frustrated that we have had three players sent off in a game when there was hardly a tackle put in.”
I responded with several posts on a thread on Tony’s Non-League Forum about recent high profile refereeing errors in England. I’m collating them here.
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Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0. The consensus appears to be that if the referee or his assistants had seen the ball deflect off the beach ball, the referee should have stopped the game and re-started with a dropped ball after the beach ball had been removed, in which case, the goal would not have stood.
Sepp Blatter has stepped in to have his say on the standard of refereeing at the highest levels.
Continue reading “Who’d Be A Referee?”
I have been keeping an eye on critical refereeing mistakes for a while now. The awarding of penalties and sendings off are considered “critical”.
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Howard Webb in November 2008:
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The criticism of referees by managers appears to be entering a new phase:
Continue reading “Referees, Again”
Luiz Felipe Scolari and Tony Adams join the list of Premier League managers sacked or replaced this season.
World Cup winner Scolari had only been in the job since June 2008, when he became Chelsea’s third boss in a year.
Not only is the January transfer window “daft”, it is a “nightmare” as well.
With the cost of relegation from the Premier League as great as it is, managers of struggling clubs are under constant scrutiny, as chairmen and board of directors of these clubs look at who they want at the helm before spending any money to get the club out of trouble.
Clubs that try to spend their way to safety risk being weighed down by the financial burden should they be relegated in any event.
Further, the pressure-cooker environment of the Premier League is a catalyst for criticism of match officials, who already have a difficult job.
Increasing the number of levels in an expanded European pyramid would reduce the financial burden of relegation.
More nonsense.
What business does any employee or representative of one team have speaking to the referee at half time without a representative of the other team being present?
It’s not just referees that should be placed under scrutiny. The very administration of football should be.
In the meantime, I’m better off playing more football, and watching less.
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