Halsey: Referee standards have dropped to alarming levels

[Carvalho Diablo]

15 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

And isn't asking for a yellow card a bookable offence? Yet the whole Newcastle team were screaming for one on Trent. It's a joke the whole fucking thing. Respect? The whole thing is a.joke. 

How many times was that Newcastle assistant alongside Howe in the technical area yesterday? And isn't now the rule where only 1 club official can be in the area at any one time?

 

I remember Kloppo got laughed out of town when he raised this exact point about the Newcastle managerial "team" only a week ago.

[Carvalho Diablo]

32 minutes ago, Jennings said:

Quick question for the older mob on here....Were the refs this shit in the 80's. I remember that people like Roger Milford were great refs. There was the odd overly strict knob head...but on the whole they weren't fuckwits ruining the game and trying to hog the limelight. 

Totally agree.

 

Roger Milford is probably the best ref I've ever seen.

[an tha]

I see Forest have filed a complaint about the officials from their game at the toilet at the weekend.

 

Good on them.

 

More clubs need to be all over this - create a relentless pressure against these useless cunts.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66631302

[Jennings]

6 minutes ago, an tha said:

I see Forest have filed a complaint about the officials from their game at the toilet at the weekend.

 

Good on them.

 

More clubs need to be all over this - create a relentless pressure against these useless cunts.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66631302

I just said that four, posts back. 
 

Maybe we need to meet at Otterspool prom?

[an tha]

5 minutes ago, Jennings said:

I just said that four, posts back. 
 

Maybe we need to meet at Otterspool prom?

KFC county road, lad!

[an tha]

34 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Totally agree.

 

Roger Milford is probably the best ref I've ever seen.

Keith Hackett, Peter Willis, Trelford Mills, George Courtney, Neil Midgley, Joe Worrall all a cut above the pricks of today.

 

I honestly believe that and think that it is a last 20 years or so thing where the refs have slid to the low standards we see now and what they have become as a group.

[Barrington Womble]

20 minutes ago, an tha said:

Keith Hackett, Peter Willis, Trelford Mills, George Courtney, Neil Midgley, Joe Worrall all a cut above the pricks of today.

 

I honestly believe that and think that it is a last 20 years or so thing where the refs have slid to the low standards we see now and what they have become as a group.

 I think things have got worse since they've made careers out of it and think they're TV stars and part of the show. They should be invisible. 

[Dicko]

Alan Wiley was the last truly great referee.

Since the advent of the Premier League standards have dropped immeasurably.

[Carvalho Diablo]

When refs became fully professional I thought great, for 2 reasons:

 

1. They can dedicate their time to getting as fit as possible

 

2. You can sack the bastards if they're consistently shit

 

It seems like only half the memo got through.

[Barrington Womble]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

When refs became fully professional I thought great, for 2 reasons:

 

1. They can dedicate their time to getting as fit as possible

 

2. You can sack the bastards if they're consistently shit

 

It seems like only half the memo got through.

Which half? 

[Megadrive Man]

1 hour ago, Jennings said:

Quick question for the older mob on here....Were the refs this shit in the 80's. I remember that people like Roger Milford were great refs. There was the odd overly strict knob head...but on the whole they weren't fuckwits ruining the game and trying to hog the limelight. 

 

I'm guessing that the Sky era has highlighted referee mistakes a lot more with the multiple camera angles and extra coverage and analysis of games. 

 

I've only been watching football for about 30 years but it seems like the standard of refereeing now is the lowest its ever been.

 

Historically there's always been contentious decisions, the 1966 world cup did the ball cross the line and the 86 Maradona hand of god goal, but it feels like it's every week now.

[Barrington Womble]

15 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

 

I'm guessing that the Sky era has highlighted referee mistakes a lot more with the multiple camera angles and extra coverage and analysis of games. 

 

I've only been watching football for about 30 years but it seems like the standard of refereeing now is the lowest its ever been.

 

Historically there's always been contentious decisions, the 1966 world cup did the ball cross the line and the 86 Maradona hand of god goal, but it feels like it's every week now.

The thing making it worse now is VAR. Because they double down to protect their mates or display their biases, instead of doing what it's there to do, get the big decisions right. So people just don't understand what the fuck is happening. That red for Mac for example, we'd have all been pissed off, we'd have appealed, it would have been recinded and nobody would really have thought twice about it after that. But with var and someone with all those cameras and time getting it wrongz you can't help feel they're either corrupt, completely incompetent or both. And it's every week, multiple times. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

It's cheating and outright bias, that's the bottom line.

 

The PGMOL is inhabited by corrupt cowards. There needs to be sackings and prosecutions taken against them. The money involved is eye watering.

[No2]

Sky had Utd v Arsenal on last night, the match when Horseface missed a last minute peno. My conclusion is that Mark Hasley is wrong, referees were just as shit and biased 20 years ago. Andy Gray mentioned on the penalty in commentary that "we don't have Television angle for you but the referee was perfectly positioned to see it". This is 5 minutes after Sky showed about 16 different angles of Viera's kick out at Horseface. My second conclusion is there wasn't a camera angle because there wasn't a foul.

[niallers]

Another example of an official who is both inept and/or has it in for us

 

[dave u]

99% of the decisions refs get wrong on the field I'm fine with. It's a really difficult job and so many decisions are subjective anyway so there is no clear right or wrong. The Virgil red for example.

 

The issue I have is when there are things like the Gordon shove in the back on Trent which the ref definitely saw and for whatever reason decided not give the foul. That has nothing to do with what I've just said above. It's weird and suspicious.

 

Then there's the inconsistency. Booking for Trent for throwing the ball away and then 30 seconds later the ref sees Gordon do the same thing and he doesn't book him. Not booking Joelinton for waving an imaginary card twice when you know for a fact he'd have booked any of our lads for the same thing.

 

But the biggest problem I have isn't the on-field ref making errors, its when you've got some other cunt sat there in Stockley Park with all the replays he needs and he's still getting it wrong.

 

That's why I believe it's just down to bias/corruption.

 

Paul Tierney didn't tell the ref to look at the Mac Allister red because he wanted to fuck us over. It really is that simple.

[Rushies tash]

1 hour ago, niallers said:

Another example of an official who is both inept and/or has it in for us

 

 

Just literally posted the same clips in another thread. If refs want respect, they need to start officiating games consistently.

[Jurgen Knows]

Speaking of consistency …
 

https://x.com/paul_tomkins/status/1696490805345538275?s=46&t=rTM5huSAdkyumn9JrNS_MQ

 

[niallers]

And the blithering idiot who refereed the United wolves game is doing our game on Sunday!

 

[dave u]

23 minutes ago, Jurgen Knows said:

Speaking of consistency …
 

https://x.com/paul_tomkins/status/1696490805345538275?s=46&t=rTM5huSAdkyumn9JrNS_MQ

 

 

Can't see it, he blocked me for reasons unknown!

[Jurgen Knows]

2 minutes ago, dave u said:

 

Can't see it, he blocked me for reasons unknown!

It’s a video of Mo Salah at the receiving end of a similar foul in a similar position against Newcastle last season. Referee didn’t even give a foul.

[Jurgen Knows]

This one:

 

https://x.com/logicalfan/status/970020444790288385?s=46&t=rTM5huSAdkyumn9JrNS_MQ

 

You may need to scroll down a bit to see the video

[Fugitive]

56 minutes ago, dave u said:

 

Can't see it, he blocked me for reasons unknown!

Lucky you. 

[Scott_M]

4 game incoming for VVD.

 

 

[niallers]

He'll get2 more and that'll make up for them having to rescind macallisters card. Laughing their arses off at us they are