Referees/Officials

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Personally, I believe that there are very few official's that are 100% neutral in every game they ever officiate in. Most are biased in some way or another; be it consciously or otherwise.

Unfortunately, there are some that I think are downright corrupt. The problem is that they only have to do it the odd number of games a season and most people just thinks that they've had another off game. Even worse the PGMOL close ranks to protect them. Whilst they probably suspect something, they are shit scared of blowing the lid off for fear of what they may turn up (a bit like the BBC management with Savile).

If a 3rd party representative of a Far Eastern betting syndicate offered a match official a wedge of cash to ensure a particular game ended in a draw, or that a certain player got sent off, it really wouldn't be too difficult to hide under the guise of a poor refereeing performance. I'm sure they'd come up with an ingenious of laundering the cash.
 
Just caught back end of SSN then, showing highlights of Italian Cup QF, i think, where Fiorentina had a player sent off with a STRAIGHT RED near the end for disputing a decision, pmsl.

Imagine that over here!
 
A thought just occurred to me. When Bacary Sagna put out his '10 v 12' post on Instagram, merely implying that Mason's refereeing was one-sided, he was charged by the FA and fined.

Yet at Southampton two seasons ago, Sergio was infamously booked for diving when he clearly should have been awarded a penalty. Even Graham Poll described it as one of the worst decisions of the season: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...sions-season-Mike-Jones-says-Graham-Poll.html

Sagan was punished but Jones effectively (& wrongly) accused Sergio of being a cheat and got away with it.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Just caught back end of SSN then, showing highlights of Italian Cup QF, i think, where Fiorentina had a player sent off with a STRAIGHT RED near the end for disputing a decision, pmsl.

Imagine that over here!
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Olivera? He was booked in the first half and got a second yellow.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Just caught back end of SSN then, showing highlights of Italian Cup QF, i think, where Fiorentina had a player sent off with a STRAIGHT RED near the end for disputing a decision, pmsl.

Imagine that over here!
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I could easily imagine that over here with a few of the Whistling Wankers who have turned up at The Etihad. Were the RDAHMeedya to make anything of it, then said WW would no doubt perform what I would call an Adebayor!
 
Read an interesting interview by Brian Moore with Eddie Jones, the England rugby union coach, on the idea of psychologically profiling rugby referees. The basic premise is that Jones and his team now analyse referees and how they referee in certain areas of the field; Jones will even go to games simply to watch a referee before his side plays under his supervision. This information in turn feeds back to the players and can shape how they play and behave in particular areas of the field. Easier to do in particular sports, granted, but it made me wonder whether we do anything similar and if not, what more we could do to gain an advantage? The article was in the Daily Telegraph.
 
Gabriel said:
Read an interesting interview by Brian Moore with Eddie Jones, the England rugby union coach, on the idea of psychologically profiling rugby referees. The basic premise is that Jones and his team now analyse referees and how they referee in certain areas of the field; Jones will even go to games simply to watch a referee before his side plays under his supervision. This information in turn feeds back to the players and can shape how they play and behave in particular areas of the field. Easier to do in particular sports, granted, but it made me wonder whether we do anything similar and if not, what more we could do to gain an advantage? The article was in the Daily Telegraph.
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One major problem with this & it's been highlighted over & over & that's the fact that referees give completely different decisions depending on who is playing.

I think you could do this on the continent & with some prem refs Oliver will bottle, Dean will make calls for pulling but Clattenburg is so bent I don't know where to start with my examples.
 
cheekybids said:
One major problem with this & it's been highlighted over & over & that's the fact that referees give completely different decisions depending on who is playing.

I think you could do this on the continent & with some prem refs Oliver will bottle, Dean will make calls for pulling but Clattenburg is so bent I don't know where to start with my examples.
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football referees, bar clear "anomalies", have patterns of behaviour.
 
Here's and idea! At the end of the season each club could be asked which referee had the worst performance this season, and if 15 clubs or over pucks the same one then he gets relegated. Could make refereeing a bit more interesting.
 
BJL_City said:
football referees, bar clear "anomalies", have patterns of behaviour.
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& it's the anomalies that I'm discussing. I saw Clattenburg wave play on when a shot clearly hit a Leicester players hand on Friday, I remember him ignoring several handballs when we played the dippers for their title then we remember the Sterling pen against Spurs.

I think some you can read like Oliver not giving decisions yet he gave us that pen against west ham. These are the sort of decisions he won't normally give.

I'd use this to say don't get frustrated or how do we identify it to plant the seed but that's a GPC tactic.
 
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cheekybids said:
& it's the anomalies that I'm discussing. I saw Clattenburg wave play on when a shot clearly hit a Leicester players hand on Friday, I remember him ignoring several handballs when we played the dippers for their title then we remember the Sterling pen against Spurs.

I think some you can read like Oliver not giving decisions yet he gave us that pen against west ham. These are the sort of decisions he won't normally give.

I'd use this to say don't get frustrated or how do we identify it to plant the seed but that's a GPC tactic.
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Clattenburg is the biggest cheat in football.
 
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