Refs and consistency / Clattenburg cock up {merged}

[JoeMercer'sWay]

only ever booked a kid once, and that was for swearing at me.

 

[Eds]

If my daughter takes someone out after five minutes and it is a sending off offence then tough, off she goes. At what age do the laws change? My point is if refs are being lenient at an early age and bottling decisions then 20 years later in front of the Kop, Shed etc then they are still bottling it hence the many errors of judgement still prevalent in the game.

 

[mano-obe]

I'm a licensed referee and it's very easy to get caught ball watching and missing simple shirt pulls, offsides which lino's miss etc

We have the luxury of multiple replays and camera angles to scrutinize a ref, when a camera angle is inconclusive they pan to another camera. The ref doesn't have this luxury.

They'll always be human error when it comes to refs, but useless cunts like Webb, Clatternburg should be axed straight away, who quite obviously don't know how to ref at all.

I don't consider myself a good ref at all, but I could do a better job than them.

 

[bluenova]

If my daughter takes someone out after five minutes and it is a sending off offence then tough, off she goes. At what age do the laws change? My point is if refs are being lenient at an early age and bottling decisions then 20 years later in front of the Kop, Shed etc then they are still bottling it hence the many errors of judgement still prevalent in the game.

Eds - I'm not sure I agree that there's any connection. I'd like to think that the same referee can have the sense to ref two age groups in a different way.

I watch Premier league football and think that, if I was reffing, the game would have to be abandoned with all the players I'd have sent off. If a ref spoke to a manager after the game and said he'd been lenient, that club would no doubt mark him down as a soft touch and get their team to play up whenever he's in charge.

At under 11s level I'd expect a ref to be able to warn the manager of a team if his players were overstepping the mark. Kids under 11 have only got half a brain - and the bit that makes rational decisions is a distant dream. It's all about enjoying playing and learning at that age, and any adult in charge of a team should know that the way the team play is his/her responsibility.

 

[samharris]

Re: Refs and consistency..

v Leicester, it didnt prevent a goalscoring opportunity cos the keeper was coming out to coverso no guarantee that Tevez would have scored. Wot annoys me is the inconsistency by the same ref in the same game - like Webb against Villa...and Twattenburg against Arse at home and the same idiot for Yoonited v Spuds at The Swamp...

Of course it prevented a goalscoring opportunity, Tevez was clean through on goal, you dont get a much better opportunity to score.

Hence the word "opportunity"..Carlos may or may not have scored but the opportunity to do so was taken away...

 

[u2fme2]

Yet again Arsenal get a penalty and opposition player sent off as last man..
So why didnt we get the same decision against leicester.??

I have still to hear a valid reason as to why the leicester player didnt walk..

because it was us