Respect for the referee.

Factfinder · by **Factfinder** » 19 Jan 2009 00:47

Does the referee need to earn respect, or is his role above question?
When you see Middlesbrough players ganging up on an official, is that OK? Or are they all guilty of ungentlemanly conduct and ergo deserving of a yellow card?

bobby1413 · by **bobby1413** » 19 Jan 2009 01:09

Factfinder wrote:Does the referee need to earn respect, or is his role above question?
When you see Middlesborough players ganging up on an official, is that OK? Or are they all guilty of ungentlemanly conduct and ergo deserving of a yellow card?

The referee does not have to earn respect - that is an insane opinion if someone chooses to believe that. Whether you agree or not, and whether the referee is entirely wrong, he should be respected without question. Appeals can be made after the game, in private and via the correct avenue.

Deathy · by **Deathy** » 19 Jan 2009 07:56

It should be madatory! He doesn't need to earn the players respect, and they don't need to earn his. He's there to officiate the game, that's it. He can't see everything, and he relys on two other officials (do you include the 4th official, is he an influence on anything?) and they need to stand and be counted when they see something.

Refs get a raw deal.

Rex · by **Rex** » 19 Jan 2009 08:03

As we know the Ref is the most abused man on the pitch. Only occasionally does anyone actually 'respect' the ref.
Getting shouted at, surrounded, escorted off the pitch, the centre of bile and instantanous abuse if a decision doesn't go the right way, it's really a wonder we have any officials in this country.
Even in our ref watch threads a ref is assessed on how many cards are dished out. Card happy or the sign of a ref NOT taking the abuse or indiscretions on the pitch.

boy1985 · by **boy1985** » 19 Jan 2009 08:37

The FA talk the talk but never walk the walk. Middlesbrough's players should be banned or fined according to the FA's 'crackdown', but they won't because they haven't go the bottle. The reason why they haven't enforced the respect campaign is because England's finest Terry and Rooney would be banned every week.

Ian Royal · by **Ian Royal** » 19 Jan 2009 12:13

Should have yellowed the lot, they didn't just surround and protest they jostled him as well. It looked on the verge of getting a bit nasty.

Refs should have respect whatever, but they do need to do more to justify receiving it.

Hoop Blah · by **Hoop Blah** » 19 Jan 2009 13:10

Ref's should start with respect, but they should also have to work at not losing it!

It's wasy to say they should have respect irrespective of what they do but I'd suggest that anyone who holds that opinion has never played a game where the ref has ruined it with awful decisions.

Wax Jacket · by **Wax Jacket** » 19 Jan 2009 17:07

^sort of agree...but we need all the refs we can get.

Ian Royal · by **Ian Royal** » 19 Jan 2009 17:18

Hoop Blah wrote:Ref's should start with respect, but they should also have to work at not losing it!

It's wasy to say they should have respect irrespective of what they do but I'd suggest that anyone who holds that opinion has never played a game where the ref has ruined it with awful decisions.

Kind of agree, but you can tell a ref you think he's had a shocker or got it wrong whilst still showing respect.

There's respect for the position or role, and then there's also respect for the individual. An individual's errors should never cancel out the respect the position requires.

Wax Jacket · by **Wax Jacket** » 19 Jan 2009 17:30

nicely put Ian