FFS...... i HATE THESE USELESS REFS.. BOUT TIME WE BROUGHT IN VIDEO DECISIONS...

You get bad decisions go against you and for you. No point whining on and on about it. Otherwise you are what's known as a mackem. Before long you'll believe there is a consipracy and that is the reason your team is ****e.

 

I believe there's a conspiracy against us but I don't believe the team is *****.

 

Video technology is used in Cricket & Rugby in this country so why Football still hasn't woken up to it baffles me.

A decision as bad as that made by Jones, has an effect on the Title-race - I wonder if any of his mates had a bet on Citeh winning?

 

....and don't forget tennis - perhaps football could adopt a three appeals system for each team - works in tennis without much disruption to the flow of the game

 

Appeal system?

Not what I was thinking at all - a final and correct decision everytime - it shouldn't be too much to ask from the powers-at-be in 2014.

 

Joker - I entirely agree with your original suggestion about the use of tv replays - but football ( Blatter ) being what it is - I was thinking of a middle ground approach - whereby in tennis the players are allowed to challenge a decision - when they get it wrong 3 times they are not allowed any further challenges in that set.
I'm sure that this sort of set up ( whilst not ideal ) has got to be better than what we've got.
Don't forget how long it has taken Blatter to accept the idea of goalline technology. He'll be in his grave before football will enter the 21st century.

 

thing that annoyed me the most was ..it spoilt a bloody good game ..and you cant go back .. killed it ..for the fans players everyone ..

 

Not soon enough for me.

 

Punished: Jones stood down

Sunday's referee Mike Jones has been taken off Premier League duty this coming weekend after his howler in disallowing Cheick Tiote's thunderbolt against Manchester City.

The useless bastard should never be allowed to ref a game again.

It vindicates Alan Pardew's (and everyone else's) view that Jones got it badly wrong. Unfortunately Tiote's goal remains chalked off, the score was still 0-2 and the three points are still City's....

 

Video technology would have shown that it was most certainly offside, so I don't know where you are coming from with this. It is surely just the very murky area of the refs interpretation of what constitutes as interfering with play that is at play here. It is my view that a player who is offside, who in close proximity to the keeper, and who then ducks out of the way of the ball last second to allow the ball to go into the net is very much interfering with play. However, it is obvious that many of you on here have a different interpretation. Personally, I would like to go back to the way it was, that is when if a player is offside then that is the end of it. regardless whether he was interfering with play..

 

Agree with you for once RAW.

 

Fixed that last line for you Mr RAW

Kind of agree with you here. Although it reduces some of the excitement (as players will be caught offside more) at least EVERYONE knew what the offside rule was - players, managers, officials and fans alike. So no disputes about 'interpretation'. You were either off or on, simple.

Love you.

 

I can see the point of going back to the old offside law
but the new laws were designed to stop the likes of Arsenal putting up the shutters on the halfway line

 

So it's true, you are a bit limp wristed.

 

Not such a good game last night was it.

 

OK, get your point. I'll be controversial. Why do we even need an offside rule at all? So what if a team sticks a man in the oppo 6 yard box? It would make the game more interesting/exciting knowing that one clearance and you're in. If they want more goals and more entertainment then that's how the game could expand. Plus Willo's 'hoofball' might become a lethal weapon.










You do all know I'm just kidding before this generates the usual barrage, right?

 

How the hell could Willo's 'hoofball' become a lethal weapon?

That's the first one, come on guys, let's give Obi a bit of stick.

 

Has he though in reality.
To date this season he's only officiated in 12 games, just over one in two, so who's to say he would have been the referee at a game this weekend anyway.
All they've done is make him the 4th official at the Sunderland v Southampton game.
Dress it up anyway you want, but, that's not being dropped, its probably what he would've been doing anyway.

Surely, being dropped, is where he would have no part to play in any game, as referee or 4th assistant,

What they've done is just another cop out, conning the public, which many people will buy into.

 

Oh please do get a grip, you have an opinion, all the pundits and vast majority of ex officials who have all critisised Jones have done so based on the laws of the game, Gouffran may have been in an offside position but he was not under the current laws and guidelines interfering with play, if you watch the moment time after time you will notice that Hart has plenty of room to dive but doesn't because his own players interfere with his view and the sheer pace of Tiote's shot puts it beyond him before he could make any reaction. A player moving towards the ball may be considered as active, usually moving away from the ball is considered as a player being inactive, Gouffran would have been offside he he stood still and allowed the ball to hit him, however as shown on Sky's coverage there was a noise when the ball went through the Man City players indicating that one of the Man City players actually made a contact with the ball. As stated you have an opinion, as do so many others, by the laws of the game you are wrong, Jones got it wrong and I am so tired of people saying that Gouffran was interfering cause he moved or Hart couldn't dive because of him, utter bollocks. I really feel for Tiote because he has tried so often to recreate his cracking strike against Arsenal and when he does it finally it gets disallowed incorrectly, he had a really good match and the crowning moment was distroyed, shame cause I also thought that after a tough start we had started to get to grips with them and were putting them under pressure and the match may have been very different.

 

This! It's more the likes of SSN 'creating' a story.