Cheers mate.
The Halsey accusations are new to me - I've read a few articles about his accusations because of your post. For the most part - it seems that his accusations are that FA management has pressured refs to toe the line - to not object - and I guess to call more fouls (for whatever reason).
This sort of management misbehavior is extremely undesirable and if Halsey is to be believed - FA management should be fired.
On the other hand - corruption in terms of throwing matches in favor of one team or another - did Halsey make such claims? I can't find anything along these lines.
Told to change his match report was he not, for that very reason.It's all a bit complicated, but the PL pay for PGMOL - which is hardly ideal.
I don't think the FA have anything to do with it, having sold their power to the PL 30 years ago to spite the Football League.
I think Halsey was told to not mention some incidents or say he'd seen/not seen them:
if he saw them and acted, then it was dealt with
if he hadn't seen it, it could be reviewed after the match
From what Halsey said, it was someone at the PGMOL who told him to alter his match report. The changing of the report subsequently meant Sergio could be retrospectively banned for the up coming Derby.Cheers mate.
The Halsey accusations are new to me - I've read a few articles about his accusations because of your post. For the most part - it seems that his accusations are that FA management has pressured refs to toe the line - to not object - and I guess to call more fouls (for whatever reason).
This sort of management misbehavior is extremely undesirable and if Halsey is to be believed - FA management should be fired.
On the other hand - corruption in terms of throwing matches in favor of one team or another - did Halsey make such claims? I can't find anything along these lines.
Only saw a bit of the game, but you are right. Atwell was causing more controversy. How can this incompetent clown be: a) given a cup semi final and b) be allowed to continue officiating at this level. Anybody else performing this poorly in any other job would have been dismissed by now.Attwell was crap again last night, couple of player scuffles as he'd lost control AGAIN.
Should have finished 9 v 11.
Holding could easily have got a red early doors, and Zinchenko late on. Ref was poor tonightOnce again were handicapped when the match starts. First minute he gave stupid decisions to Arsenal, right to the final whistle when Zinchenko should of been sent off.
Same ref that allowed Milner to stay on the pitch.
Guess I'll just bump my previous comment until it's not relevant.Absolutely appalling performance from ref and by var. Can someone advise if there is a way to automatically post this after every game to save me typing it out?
It will remain relevant until Pep and others call out the crap reffing. We’ve had opportunity to publicly call them out in the last few matches and we don’t. Shouldn’t therefore surprise us that it continues.Guess I'll just bump my previous comment until it's not relevant.
Holding could have been sent off twice and Zinchenko could have been sent off, as well.Refereeing of our games must be so bad, because I thought he wasn't so bad tonight compared to the last few.