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Why do people get so wound up by referees?

If I thought the game was bent, I’d never watch a match, let alone buy a ticket again.

Is it cathartic to spout the same abuse, day in, day out, week in, week out, year in year out?

I simply don’t get the ire. It’s bizarre.
They wind me up by being absolutely bobbins at their jobs!

why that is (they are crap or there is something nefarious going on) is debatable. We saw what happened in Italy though. We’ve had Halsey and Clattenburg also on the record talking about influences applied to them. Makes you think
 
They wind me up by being absolutely bobbins at their jobs!

why that is (they are crap or there is something nefarious going on) is debatable. We saw what happened in Italy though. We’ve had Halsey and Clattenburg also on the record talking about influences applied to them. Makes you think
A bit. It’s a fucking hard job that they do their best at and get zero credit for.

Look at every single club’s online forum and they are all convinced every referee is bent and 100% against their team.

Including us.
 
A bit. It’s a fucking hard job that they do their best at and get zero credit for.

Look at every single club’s online forum and they are all convinced every referee is bent and 100% against their team.

Including us.
I don’t think every ref is bent or against us. I do think their job is hard. They don’t help themselves though (at least their trade Union don’t). They are definitely in a place where they are susceptible to influence though and the weight of instance of corruption in sport suggests to me some of them probably have been. Just my opinion
 
Yes.

He's the celebrity ref with the ego to match. Even growing that beard to troll during lockdown.

I can't see Reilly wanting him to stay in PiGMOL because he'll see him as a threat to his job.

I'd go further than your point about making him VAR overseer. I'd have him as the boss of the organisation. He wouldn't be able to resist being on Tele every week explaining decisions made. His ego would love his own show on the job.
if it goes to last game of the season to decided the title we'll get a Dean moment for sure
 
I don’t think every ref is bent or against us. I do think their job is hard. They don’t help themselves though (at least their trade Union don’t). They are definitely in a place where they are susceptible to influence though and the weight of instance of corruption in sport suggests to me some of them probably have been. Just my opinion
And we all have them!

Whenever there are subjective decisions to be made, people will have differing viewpoints.
 


Interesting and funny video from an ex ref.

Mentions what he thought of Reilly. The influence of GPC and what an FA official said to him before he reffed a cup final. Which confirms to me the Premier League is becoming more WWE than sport. He also thinks Danny Mills is a ****.
 

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