Ref Watch

mccity said:
I've seen this a lot so I'll ask. What was it that she supposedly did to rile everybody up?
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RabidCity said:
how annoying an article is that. All bait and no information. What did she say? What did the trolls say?
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These are the 2 interviews people didn't like, and as far as I can tell the trolls basically just criticised her interviewing, not anything more personal.






There was also a quite rude pre match interview with Owen Farrell but I can't find it.
 
franksinatra said:
Ok so what is your theory on why he made the error?

Regardless of what you get paid, making a decision, in a split second, can result in you making a wrong decision, doing something explicable, particularly when pressured by other people. Money is irrelevant, its a human trait.

Obviously on here, nobody has ever done this, but it happens across pretty much every football league. Does not make it right, or not infuriating, but sometimes that is how it is.
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A player asked him if he could take a free kick, he didn't ask if could perform open heart surgery.
He allowed the attacker to take the kick then disallowed the goal, but importantly, didn't have the courage to to stick to this decision! If he had seen something he should have told the players why he had disallowed it and stuck to the decision.
This idiot then changed his mind and gave the goal and ergh then changed it again.
I mention how much he is paid because it is an important factor. He is meant to be one of the elite and is paid accordingly. He is expected to be able to handle pressure and if he can't, bye bye.
Week in week out this clown messes up.
 
Blue Mist said:
MOTD gave a good explanation. The Brighton player asked if he could take the kick and Mason said yes so blew his whistle. He then realised the keeper wasnt ready so blew again to stop the game. He had to blow before the ball went in the net to do this otherwise the goal stood and that was the reason there was a var check. It was so incompetent not to realise the keeper was not ready as he was lining up his wall, it is beyond belief
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MOTD might have explained it that way but in law that is wrong. The free kick is supposed to be an advantage to the fouled team. If the whistle goes it does not really matter if the keeper is ready or not. Before ko the ref will normally tell the players that if they want to take a quick free kick, then do so, as long as the ref hasn't asked them to wait for the whistle. Dunk has said that Mason told him he blew the 2nd time as there was pushing in the wall. Now under the new rules none of the attackers should be close enough to push anyone in the wall. If they had then surely it would have been a free kick to WBA as the ball is in play from the 1st whistle, but he gave a re take.

The likes of Lee Mason give all refs a bad name.
 
richardtheref said:
MOTD might have explained it that way but in law that is wrong. The free kick is supposed to be an advantage to the fouled team. If the whistle goes it does not really matter if the keeper is ready or not. Before ko the ref will normally tell the players that if they want to take a quick free kick, then do so, as long as the ref hasn't asked them to wait for the whistle. Dunk has said that Mason told him he blew the 2nd time as there was pushing in the wall. Now under the new rules none of the attackers should be close enough to push anyone in the wall. If they had then surely it would have been a free kick to WBA as the ball is in play from the 1st whistle, but he gave a re take.

The likes of Lee Mason give all refs a bad name.
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Didn't see any pushing in the wall, doubt Mason did either.
 
domalino said:
These are the 2 interviews people didn't like, and as far as I can tell the trolls basically just criticised her interviewing, not anything more personal.






There was also a quite rude pre match interview with Owen Farrell but I can't find it.
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Thanks, those are two horrific interviews, well done to both for conducting themselves with class. It would be great to see that level of respect in football.
 
domalino said:
These are the 2 interviews people didn't like, and as far as I can tell the trolls basically just criticised her interviewing, not anything more personal.






There was also a quite rude pre match interview with Owen Farrell but I can't find it.
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It's what I call the Garry Richardson style of interviewing, which he used to practice regularly on his Sunday morning Sportsweek R5 Live programme.

He did it with the FA Chairman, Ian Watmore, after the Adebayor incident. Watmore is an Arsenal fan but Richardson tried to get him to be judge and jury before the FA had even received the referee's report. Watmore handled it very poorly in my opinion and instead of saying he wouldn't discuss it, effectively said Adebayor would be punished. Then on the next news & sport bulletin,the headline was "FA Chairman calls for Adebayor ban". Richardson would regularly ask provocative questions, looking to get a controversial opinion, even when his interviewee made it clear they wouldn't answer.

It's one of the firm, unwritten rules in Rugby Union that you don't criticise referees. She was just trying to stoke up a controversy and Farrell rightly refused to be drawn, when he could have landed himself in serious trouble with the RFU if he had spoken out of turn.

It's symptomatic of the decline of the BBC from an organisation that has quality and integrity at its core, to one that's little better than TalkShite. She deserved severe criticism (although not vile abuse) and if she cant deal with it she should perhaps find another career.
 
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richardtheref said:
MOTD might have explained it that way but in law that is wrong. The free kick is supposed to be an advantage to the fouled team. If the whistle goes it does not really matter if the keeper is ready or not. Before ko the ref will normally tell the players that if they want to take a quick free kick, then do so, as long as the ref hasn't asked them to wait for the whistle. Dunk has said that Mason told him he blew the 2nd time as there was pushing in the wall. Now under the new rules none of the attackers should be close enough to push anyone in the wall. If they had then surely it would have been a free kick to WBA as the ball is in play from the 1st whistle, but he gave a re take.

The likes of Lee Mason give all refs a bad name.
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Thanks for the explanation, what Dunk has said highlights what a clusterfuck it was by Mason.
 
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