Just read this on the BBC website! No matter how useless an official is, this can never be the correct action! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15322635.stm
Full marks to the club for sacking the player. God knows, we all moan about refs from time to time, but it IS a difficult job in an often tense arena. No justification for this whatsoever.
He will be a wolves player within a few weeks... Joking a side, seriously what a t**t. I know that there only a non-league side but i feel so sorry for the players, the management, chairman and most of all there fans, an absalute disgrace!
Reminds of the youtube video where the whole team chased a ref for sending someone off. But that was absolutely stupid. Correct decision to abandon the game and sack the player. Also good that he was arrested for it.
Thing is, refs make mistakes, but that is exactly the point. MISTAKES. I don't for a minute believe any ref would award incorrect decisions on purpose. I wonder how many mistakes Josh McKenzie had made during that game. How many wrong decisions he had made with passes or how many tackles had not won the ball. I suppose he would have been fine with a team mate punching him for his errors? Thought not.
From the local rag: "obviously it's a big regret, definitely, but he (ref) has made a meal of it, he fell to the floor about five minutes later"
My Grandad did it to a ref who disallowed his goal when he was playing for Lowestoft Town in about 1922.He got banned for life then.My Dad said it was a goal BTW.
When I was refereeing, we were told that if a player laid a hand on a referee, in a violent way, then it was a red card and the player WOULD be banned for life.
I wonder if this would be the reaction if Rooney (etc..) had made such an error. I would hope so but doubt that a premier club and or FA would have the courage.