Why We Need UEFA referee's in the Premier League

[rebel23]

I'm guessing a lot of you saw the game last night at Old toilet and were impressed with the referee's performance (though Rafael's first foul should have been a straight red and they still got away with a few other things like Vidic kicking someone in the bollocks) BUT notice how the 38 year old italian referee wasn't intimidated, gave the second yellow and then played 3 minutes of injury time bang on.

 

If that was the Premier League and Howard Webb or Martin Atkinson there would have been no 2nd yellow for their player (probably not even a first yellow!) and 6 minutes of injury time if the cunts were in trouble.

 

It's amazing what a fair referee can do and if we had UEFA refs in the Premier League rather than the biased twats we have refereeing now the Mancs and Chelsea (who also cheat, foul, surround referee's and behave like cunts) wouldn't get away with half the shit they do now and teams wouldn't give up especially at Old toilet so easily because they feel they're playing the referee too.

 

So, we need to bring in foreign UEFA officials, cool customers like the italian last night who will referee fairly and to a high professional standard. The Premier League is the richest league in the world and it's quite ridiculous we can't bring in foreign officials on the day of the match, unexposed to any of the media, 'mind games' or FA corruption with managers not even allowed to talk with them, to do the job we expect of them.

[Unrighteous]

I think there should be a referee exchange problem, so we can jettison all the shite and make them become better refs in foreign countries.

[Steve Holt]

We could never possibly bring in foreign refs for every match every week. It just wouldn't work. What I would like to see is UEFA controlling all referees rather than the individual FAs. Then we would see some fair play. If the refs had someone other than Alex Ferguson to answer to, they would stop treating him and his like gods.

[zigackly]

Another idea might be for Hackett or whoever it is these days to grow a pair of balls.

[rebel23]

it's Mike Riley now who is in charge.

[zigackly]

Oh christ.

[WaltonRed]

We dont need them.

[rebel23]

We dont need them.

 

Yes we do, look at last night then watch a game when Webb or Atkinston refs at old toilet.

[Guest TK-421]

I concur with the opening post.

 

Higher standards/less bias is needed.

[rebel23]

by the way i'm not saying we should go 'all foreign', we do have UEFA licensed referee's ironically Atkinson and Webb but they would be refereeing them a lot less if they were part of a pool of say 20.

 

We really need to bring in some foreign refs because it's silly we have for example quite good Norwegian and Swedish referee's who have a lot of CL and international experience yet at the weekend are refereeing in small leagues when they could be refereeing in the Premier League, yet in our league we are allowing someone inexperienced like Atwell at 28 to ref a Premier League game. I'm sorry but there's too much at stake and there's a real shortage now especially when Wiley and a few others retire .

[INTORRESTING]

we get away with a lot too, it all evens out

[lebron]

We could never possibly bring in foreign refs for every match every week. It just wouldn't work. What I would like to see is UEFA controlling all referees rather than the individual FAs. Then we would see some fair play. If the refs had someone other than Alex Ferguson to answer to, they would stop treating him and his like gods.

 

Not sure why you would want that rather inconsistant bunch of cowards in control of anything:( Is this not rather racist/xenophopic?

 

 

UEFA to take no action against Ferguson

 

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UEFA will take no action against Alex Ferguson for his “typical Germans” jibe at Bayern Munich over the sending off of Manchester United defender Rafael.

 

Ferguson claimed referee Nicola Rizzoli was pressured by the Bayern players into showing Rafael a second yellow card and the Bundesliga side went on to secure a Champions League semi-final spot on away goals.

 

Ferguson said after the game: “The young boy showed a bit of inexperience but they got him sent off, everyone sprinted towards the referee – typical Germans.”

 

UEFA today confirmed there will be no disciplinary action taken against Ferguson for his remarks.

 

The remark did rankle with Bayern coach Louis van Gaal however who reacted by saying: “I thought England was noted for fairness but that’s not what I call fair play. I think Sir Alex was disappointed.”

 

United keeper Edwin van der Sar backed up Ferguson’s point of view however by claiming the referee was not intending to produce a yellow card until the Bayern players put the pressure on him.

 

Van der Sar said: “The sending off was a little bit hard to take.

 

“They surrounded the referee straight away when he fouled him, and it’s obvious they know who is on a card or not and they are very good at that.

 

“I thought initially the referee wasn’t going to do it but they then put some pressure on him and he got the card out.

 

“It’s obvious that was the turning point of the game. It was 40 minutes to go and just too long to hold on.”

 

Meanwhile Portuguese winger Nani, whose two goals looked to have secured a last-four spot until Bayern’s fight-back, said United have to make a last supreme effort to overhaul Chelsea and Arsenal in the title race.

 

United’s first task is at Blackburn on Sunday and Rovers are in a good run of form.

 

Nani said: “We have to concentrate for the last games and do everything we can to try to win the league.

 

“We have to be confident because we are a big team and we have ambition. We want to win the league.

 

“I will try to keep my concentration up and try to do the same as I have for the last couple of games. I want to help my team to win the league.

 

“I was so happy to score two goals and my performance was good, so it is disappointing that we have not passed through to the semi-finals. But that is football – it happens, and we have to continue to work hard to try to win trophies.”

 

Read more:UEFA to take no action against Ferguson | Irish Examiner

[Guest TK-421]

Robben, Ribery, Van Bommel, Van Buyten - typical Germans the lot of 'em.

[zigackly]

Right. Nobody mention the war!

[Razoray]

I couldn't believe it last night when Ferguson sat down with about 90 seconds to go but then realised it was Europe and he has no sway over the officials. If that was a premier league game he would have been in the 4th officials ear trying to get the extra minutes to get the winner.

[dirty_sanchez]

I think it's a really good idea.

[Funkasy]

have you actualy seen the referees in the cl and el? its just as bad as the premier league. They will always make misstakes and the only thing that can change this is video and sensor Technology

 

maybe it will relieve some of the presure, but they will still be just as shit.

[dirty_sanchez]

have you actualy seen the referees in the cl and el? its just as bad as the premier league. They will always make misstakes and the only thing that can change this is video and sensor Technology

 

maybe it will relieve some of the presure, but they will still be just as shit.

 

But it will reduce the chance of bias.

[Unrighteous]

But it will reduce the chance of bias.

 

Seriously! There is like a dozen games, per year, when Ginsoak should be sent off for essentially giving the 4th official a hairdryer treatment. It's a fucking disgrace.

[hamstrung]

Lets not get the one from tonight who was seemingly unaware you can't be offside directly from a corner.

[straight_red]

Lets not get the one from tonight who was seemingly unaware you can't be offside directly from a corner.

 

Which just goes to show refs from everywhere make mistakes... I tend to think there's less bias then people might imagine (but maybe I'm an optimist). It's just the constant replays highlight more potential mistakes and make things look worse than they are.

 

I don't think the Premier League's officials are any worse than most European leagues, and probably better than a lot of them. I certainly wouldn't want Itallian refs over here given the recent scandals in serie A.

[dirty_sanchez]

Serious question, why do the FA even announce the referees before the game? It increases the chance that the ref could be "contaminated".

[Guest davelfc]

Right. Nobody mention the war!

 

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.

[Preston Red]

Robben, Ribery, Van Bommel, Van Buyten - typical Germans the lot of 'em.

 

Not to mention Louis van Gaal as well.

[ottawa_lfc]

Read this shite - what a cunt he is:

 

Just let me add, that it is that hypocritical arseshagger that built an team around Roy Keane, whose entire game was about bullying referees.

 

Disgusted Sir Alex Ferguson claims press is blinded by 'mist of venom' | Football | The Guardian

 

 

Disgusted Sir Alex Ferguson claims press is blinded by 'mist of venom'

 

• United manager criticises coverage of Bayern defeat

• Munich players 'bullied young referee'

 

Still nursing the wounds from Manchester United's controversial elimination from the Champions League, Sir Alex Ferguson rounded on what he called a "mist of venom" surrounding the club.

 

The United manager was aggrieved that the excellence of his side's first-half performance against Bayern Munich had been forgotten amid his comments that the way Bayern's players had surrounded the referee in a successful attempt to get Rafael da Silva dismissed was "typical Germans".

 

"The most important thing about Wednesday night's game is how well we played. But you have lost that in the mist of your venom," he told reporters at the club's training ground at Carrington. "The Germans let themselves down in the way they behaved by getting the boy sent off. If they don't recognise that, there is nothing I can do about that. It was totally unfair – they bullied a young referee into it."

 

"He [Rafael] has barely touched him. [Franck] Ribéry did more to him than he did to Ribéry. The issue was how the Germans reacted; they knew the boy was on a yellow card, they surrounded the referee. We see that happen time and time again with players waving an imaginary card to the referee – and he succumbed.

 

"I don't know if it was last season or the season before, but there was a referee's edict that anyone showing an imaginary card should themselves be booked. Well, there were six that should have been booked. What has been lost in all this is our performance. We were 3-0 up and it could have been 5-0. We were magnificent and that has been lost just because you want a headline about what I say about the Germans. That is disgusting, absolutely disgusting. The players deserved some praise from you lot because their performance was outstanding. At the end of the game you are forced by Uefa rules to do a television interview. It is a bad time to do it."

 

Ferguson has always been suspicious of flash interviews conducted immediately after the final whistle when emotions are at their height. His sometime mentor Jock Stein told him a manager should wait at least 48 hours before commenting on a controversial game. And he has long been suspicious of the club's press corps, whom he accused of celebrating United's defeat in last year's European Cup final.

 

"Someone told me the other day that when the press came back from the Rome final [against Barcelona] they were all delighted," he said. "They were on the press bus and pleased that we lost. It is disappointing when there is a British team in a European final and even one member of the British press wants us to lose. Someone on the bus told me he was absolutely disgusted at the behaviour of the British press at the European Cup final and he had no reason to lie to me."

 

His accusations carried echoes of an incident in December 2005 when Ferguson was appalled by suggestions that some journalists flying back with the team from Lisbon after United's elimination from the Champions League by Benfica ordered champagne.

 

Ferguson did not comment on reports in the Guardian that Manchester United's debt had meant they were unable to fund a bid for the Valencia forward David Villa. The signing of the 21-year-old Javier Hernández and the Fulham centre-half Chris Smalling is evidence that Manchester United's transfer policy will be aimed at younger, cheaper footballers.

 

"There is always conjecture about players," Ferguson said. "Last summer it was Ribéry and Karim Benzema, and he was one of the targets that we set out to get because he was 21, and now it is David Villa. I am sure by the end of the season there will be half a dozen more."

 

Ferguson has admitted he did not bring Benzema to Old Trafford because he thought the €35m (£30.7m) fee Real Madrid paid Lyon was inflated, adding that United had to move swiftly to sign Hernández from Chivas de Guadalajara once he made the Mexican national squad because his price was in danger of rising. "That created a problem for us," he said, "because, if he went to the World Cup and did well, we were going to lose him."

 

The manager was adamant that Wayne Rooney would play no part against Blackburn on Sunday after aggravating his ankle injury at Old Trafford against Bayern in a match that Ferguson had said the striker would miss. However Rooney's wife, Coleen, at Aintree for the Grand National meeting, suggested the England international was making a typically rapid recovery. "He is fine and his ankle is fine," she said. "He has been into training today."