Football League Referees

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Yeah and I never knew there was a new rule where a player can't get two yellow cards in the same passage of play.

Rules?

[Dave the rave]

I'll just leave this here for Chief Kessum....

[No Fixed Abode]

No need to dig when you're all incorrect.

[glass half full]

I would like to see a few referees communicate better with players. A perfect example of a referee explaining matters as the game progresses is the RU referee Wayne Barnes.

[paultheroyal]

I would like to see a few referees communicate better with players. A perfect example of a referee explaining matters as the game progresses is the RU referee Wayne Barnes.

Long way to go for that.... Players need to earn that and whilst they surround the referee, run afte them or we witness all expletives shouted at them then it won't be happening.

[sandman]

Referee's have to earn their respect and forget the arrogance that comes with having no consequences to their mistakes. Players get wound up because referees clearly don't care when they make mistakes.

Want respect? Earn it.

[paultheroyal]

Trust me, referees care deeply when they make mistakes. Besides you would never tell as we were taught to keep communication to a minimum and zero tolerance with press and even managers for that level. FA doing not referees.

There are occasions when refs on pitch would acknowledge mistakes but let's me honest, accuracy of refereeing in getting decisions right is extremely high.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Big old hoo-ha going on about Marriner, his assistant and the ET Liverpool penalty at Palace on Talksquawk right now....once again Chelsea's love-child Jason Cundy (sic) getting pelters for his angle on it

Talksquawk must be haemorrhaging listeners when he's on

[Sanguine]

but let's me honest, accuracy of refereeing in getting decisions right is extremely high.

Agreed.

There are occasions where you wonder why referees don't just come out and say 'yep, I got it wrong' post-game.
Tbf to Marriner, he apparently told Delaney after the game that he didn't think it was a penalty, but he had to trust his assistant's judgement, who had a better angle. Which is fair enough I think.

[TFF]

This seems the right place to leave this

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sp ... ngton-goal

Trevor KettLOLe

[paultheroyal]

This seems the right place to leave this

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sp ... ngton-goal

Trevor KettLOLe

Paultheroyal on another thread wrote...

Always accused of defending referees etc but I can't defend referee kettle at Wimbledon. Thing is he was no doubt technically correct but you just don't blow your whistle for half time as the bloke is about to shoot at goal. Created all that carnage by his own poor management.

[TBM]

When i did my refs course we were told to wait until the ball was either dead, with the defending team with no threat or at the half way line

No idea why he blew when he did, strange decision

[Sutekh]

Technically correct. When time is up the whistle should be blown irrespective of where the ball is on the pitch.

Only exception is to allow a penalty kick to be completed.

However this is rightly something that referees generally use common sense on and wait until the ball/play is not in a threatening area of the pitch.

[Hoop Blah]

Time added on for injuries, time wasting and unnecessary breaks in play is at the discretion of the referee and so it's not an amount of time that is measured to the second so there's just no need for a ref to call time at any specific second in time.

I had a ref do this to me in a youth game, a long time ago! It just makes no sense whatsoever.

It's possibly even worth the laws being clarified or changed in some way to remove this situation even being possible. It might be clearer if they said play will be stopped when the ball next goes out of play after time is up (not that this kind of thing happens of course).

[No Fixed Abode]

It's pretty frustrating when the officials indicate there's 4 minutes added on time then perhaps one teams will make a sub to 'waste' time - the ref should add on some extra time but many fail to do so. Or sometimes when a goal is scored.

[From Despair To Where?]

Whilst I would't go as far as introducing a law similar to rugby, the ref had got to use common sense and allow a clearly active phase of play finish before blowing, either waiting for the ball to go dead or alternatively entering the neutral third of the pitch.

[Sanguine]

the ref had got to use common sense and allow a clearly active phase of play finish before blowing.

Well they do, almost always. No rule change required, Kettle just got this hopelessly wrong.

[From Despair To Where?]

I know they do but it's frustrating. I cannot for the life of me understand Kettle's decision to blow up when he did technically he didn't get it wrong. Its the old spirit of the law vs letter of the law argument. We call for refs to use common sense or their own judgement then complain when there's no consistency.

Unfortunately it's one that Accrington have to take on the chin.

[Winston Smith]

We call for refs to use common sense

do we? I only hear sh*t pundits come out with stuff like that. One man's common sense is another man's (insert something opposite of common sense here)

[Sanguine]

We call for refs to use common sense

do we? I only hear sh*t pundits come out with stuff like that. One man's common sense is another man's brendywendy.