“The Forest midfielder has been charged with acting in an improper manner and/or using abusive and/or insulting words towards fourth official Anthony Taylor.“
Should get an OBE for this
Didn’t even clock it was Taylor as 4th official. When was the last game he was even remotely near that didn’t involved a huge fuck-up
sWo97 on
Name calling: Fine and a ban.
Throwing a ball at someone’s head: not even a yellow
Dangltastic on
I think I’m one of the more sympathetic people out there when it comes to the stresses and rigours of refereeing – but even I have to say, if they didn’t want to cop the amount of abuse they do on the regular they should probably consider becoming more bloody competent at their jobs than they are right now. The roster of refs has had years to reflect on their unpopularity and have time and time again chosen to circle the wagons and act like a self preserving mob. We need them to step up to the standard they’re meant to maintain, because maybe just maybe if there’s consistent discourse around refereeing decisions week in week out there might just be a fucking problem.
Sunday’s challenge could have been better communicated as a yellow card for the manner in which the tackle was conducted. Coming in from slightly behind, a diving lunge, studs a little bit up, trailing leg barrelling in. There’s a lot of reasons why you could argue it into being a foul, or being a yellow because that kind of tackling gets brought back for being reckless semi-regularly. But if the first thing you do when approaching is signal that ‘You got the ball’, then you’ve set yourself up to make allowances. If you want to emphasise the recklessness, you talk about being from behind or the lunge first – it’s basic communication and expectation management and these nitwits are meant to be all about managing and controlling the game within the rules.
So congratulations, you set up a situation where you’ve given the player expectations of one direction, then went the other – and are surprised they’re more than angry at you – you’re officially a moron for inflaming a scenario for no reason. Do better. I don’t blame MGW or Nuno for showing some Pashun one bit after that, and the sooner we’re rid of this crop of blackguards the better.
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“The Forest midfielder has been charged with acting in an improper manner and/or using abusive and/or insulting words towards fourth official Anthony Taylor.“
Should get an OBE for this
Didn’t even clock it was Taylor as 4th official. When was the last game he was even remotely near that didn’t involved a huge fuck-up
Name calling: Fine and a ban.
Throwing a ball at someone’s head: not even a yellow
I think I’m one of the more sympathetic people out there when it comes to the stresses and rigours of refereeing – but even I have to say, if they didn’t want to cop the amount of abuse they do on the regular they should probably consider becoming more bloody competent at their jobs than they are right now. The roster of refs has had years to reflect on their unpopularity and have time and time again chosen to circle the wagons and act like a self preserving mob. We need them to step up to the standard they’re meant to maintain, because maybe just maybe if there’s consistent discourse around refereeing decisions week in week out there might just be a fucking problem.
Sunday’s challenge could have been better communicated as a yellow card for the manner in which the tackle was conducted. Coming in from slightly behind, a diving lunge, studs a little bit up, trailing leg barrelling in. There’s a lot of reasons why you could argue it into being a foul, or being a yellow because that kind of tackling gets brought back for being reckless semi-regularly. But if the first thing you do when approaching is signal that ‘You got the ball’, then you’ve set yourself up to make allowances. If you want to emphasise the recklessness, you talk about being from behind or the lunge first – it’s basic communication and expectation management and these nitwits are meant to be all about managing and controlling the game within the rules.
So congratulations, you set up a situation where you’ve given the player expectations of one direction, then went the other – and are surprised they’re more than angry at you – you’re officially a moron for inflaming a scenario for no reason. Do better. I don’t blame MGW or Nuno for showing some Pashun one bit after that, and the sooner we’re rid of this crop of blackguards the better.