Yes that will do perfectly although it's not very disguisable and it's on your head, I devised my plan to be a bit stealthy so you don't get caught, then we could blame it on Dean Marney.
Find it incredible that areshole has got this fixture. The Burnley match is burned into my brain, never left a ground so angry. Our cat got a right kicking that night and left home for good.
After seeing the highlights of that Burnleh game on motd that night I can't believe they think this guy is competent enough to referee another game, certainly at league level. People always say you can't blame the ref, but you could that afternoon at Turf Moor.
Given the earlier comment hoping that Jones doesn't read this thread, you might have a point because he strikes me as one of those vindictive, sly little twats who'll hold a grudge.
You mean a referee? The standard in general in this division is utter ****e. Everyone moans about the decisions that get on telly in the PL but they are usually contentious decisions where the ref had a tough call to make, bravely makes it and sometimes gets it wrong. That's acceptable, they're only human. The ones that really piss me off are when the ref knows full well what has happened but refuses to make a decision at all because it might have to be a penalty, or because he'd have to give the tackler a second yellow. They never just stick to the rules like the PL ones do, they always shy away from the decision and don't take charge which is particularly annoying considering most teams in this division like to slow everything down and **** about time-wasting and cheating, so a strong ref is needed. Also, and this is a general English football thing, the refs have no sense of priority at all. The way I see it the ref is there to prevent cheating or danger, that's it. However the refs themselves seem to think they are there to award a yellow card to anyone who tackles another player fairly but hard as if to rule out contact altogether, but completely ignore instances of blatant cheating as if they don't mind that so much. The consistency of card giving is a joke.
One of the things that get's my goat about refs is that they have a howler officiating a game on Sky. They get punished for it by being removed from the EPL refs panel(?) and yet they are still considered good enough to ref NPC games. They should go back into training or something before inflicting them on us.
First of all Mike Jones has proved himself to be a homer ref. his biggest gaffs have been the infamous one @ Sunderland with the beach ball. then he sided with burnley in the PL game with city already mentioned above. but as has been said, overall Jones does make bad errors and his Demotion to our game is punishment for his 2 basic errors @ Stoke City on saturday against QPR. BUT Lets give the man a chance before we hang him. Afterall, if City play well enough it wont matter anyway. end of. By the way...the match Ref. @ Southampton is a chap called keith Wright. Dont know anything about him at all. hmmm
Same could be said for the Burnley red cards, one of the cleanest games I've ever seen, and they somehow managed to find 4 red card offences in it.
i hate those double standards too , the number of times a soft free kick is given in the centre of the field , yet the same jockeying holding and grappling is mostly overlooked at corners because its in the penalty area . Dont get me started on Goalkeepers though!
The ref v. Burnley when City beat them 2-0 and it ended in near farce...was none other than Old Mother Mike Riley...What a Class A plonker....The same bloke who went on to become the ref supermo....Need I say anymore!!!!
I hate Mike Riley with a passion. Only time I've ever thrown anything on the pitch at football was a 2p at Mike Rileys head. ****ing ****.
That Burnley game in 2008 turned into an absolute circus because of that clown Riley. We may have won the match but the sendings off for both sides were daft to say the least and Riley couldn't wait to get the cards out of his pocket.
It was his last home game for us, though he played one more away game, two weeks later at Colchester.
