In the premier league surely can't get any lower than they are right now.This weekend,the usual crap of Friend and Marriner were joined by Atkinson and Jones.What has gone wrong with our referees in this country???They have never before made as many mistakes,and they have goal-line technology to help them!!The managers in the premier-league are quite rightly complaining about many refereeing decisions.Why??Are the referees just poorer now than they were in the past,or are they on the make with the arrival of on-line gambling??What do you think,lads and lasses??
I honestly believe the likes of Marriner 'get off' on the adverse publicity. I can just imagine him reading on a Sunday shouting to his missus... I'm in the paper again! Fame at what cost??? ****ers!!
very true, you just know what's gonna happen almost every time, its visible more when its our club but this season the decisions have been disgusting throughout
Rugby officiating - that's the future of football, no nonsence and video technology for major incidents, plus the players have the upmost respect for them
Martin Atkinson needs a rest after his "incompetent" officiating display in Chelsea's 1-1 draw with Burnley,says former referees' chief Keith Hackett. Saturday's game was Atkinson's 32nd of the season and came fewer than 72 hours after he took charge of Real Madrid's Champions League win at Schalke. His next game in charge is Southampton against Crystal Palace on 3 March. Hackett said: "Champions League games are tiring. Martin should have been given an additional day to recover." Atkinson won't referee a game this weekend, but there is a shortened Premier League fixture list because of the Capital One Cup final. However, he is fourth official at Manchester United's home game against Sunderland on Saturday. Blues boss Jose Mourinho said Atkinson got four key decisions wrong. Atkinson sent off Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic for pushing Ashley Barnes to the ground in the 70th minute of Saturday's game Hackett, who was head of Professional Game Match Officials Limited until 2010, said Barnes had already made two challenges worthy of red cards. Having not been sanctioned for an aerial clash with Branislav Ivanovic, the Burnley forward caught Matic on his left shin with his studs showing, prompting the Serb's angry response. Barnes will face no disciplinary action by the Football Association for the challenge on Matic. The Serb will miss Sunday's Capital One Cup final against Tottenham unless Chelsea successfully appeal against a three-match suspension. Hackett said Atkinson's performance was "one of the worst" he has seen, adding: "It was an incompetent display. "I feel sorry for the Chelsea player because he has reacted to a leg-breaking challenge. Never mind a cup final, that could have cost him his career. "There is no place in the game for challenges like that and it should have been punished." Atkinson has refereed more Premier League games than any other official this season. Hackett added: "Send Martin to a hotel somewhere, just as Liverpool did with Raheem Sterling." Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers let Sterling spend time in Jamaicalast month after detecting signs of fatigue in the 20-year-old forward. ------------------------------------------- Ha ha... Send him to a hotel somewhere?!? WTF !!!! Sack the twat !!
I sat there with my cuppa watching that loud mouthed idiot on the morning shout waiting for them to discuss the controversial incidents of the weekend with Dermot Gallagher, bearing in mind most of the show was about Chelsea anyway, so they just badgered Gallagher on Chelsea and Liverpool and ran out of time. we never got a mentiojn
I'm firmly on the side of the refs as they are on trial by TV in every case. The rot maybe started in 1992 with Andy Gray and his magic electronics on Sky when he would even show trivial incidents in magnification just to prove that someone brushed against a foot or leg so therefore the referee should have given a penalty. When I was in any stadium I would count myself lucky if I saw an incident as it happened where I could give an accurate opinion. The only significant thing I can honestly recall seeing was our Martin Harvey handle a ball in the penalty area at Leeds but he disguised it as a missed header and a corner was incorrectly given despite the usual Leeds protests, but they contested every decision given against them anyway. Let's all be brutally truthful and say how we would have felt if the decisions that happened to us had gone the other way, we would have been claim it was soft refereeing. Then look at player behaviour before maligning referees, Matic just beat the Burnley kid to the ball and got caught by an honest attempt to play the ball, his music hall reaction to get the free kick was overshadowed by the way he jumped up showing he was not hurt in the least. Two players chasing the same ball collide, one flies through the air but the other stays on his feet, or maybe people should remember Suarez rolling round in agony at Norwich then had a miraculous recovery to chase after the ball. No conspiracy by referees against or for any club, maybe they just interpret the incident as they see it through one pair of eyes. The sooner the experts come out in support of refs against player behaviour and maybe identify the cheats then we will get some sanity back into the game.
