Disrespect towards Referees.


But players know that they run the risk of being booked for dissent , players no a bad tackle can see you sent off so ultimately if the player wants to take the risk of being booked/banned that is upto them. But that decision yesterday was beyond awful 😖.
 
But players know that they run the risk of being booked for dissent , players no a bad tackle can see you sent off so ultimately if the player wants to take the risk of being booked/banned that is upto them. But that decision yesterday was beyond awful 😖.
I agree that the decision was bad and that Harland had every right to feel aggrieved about it but the way he went on was so over the top that he should have been issued with a yellow as he was storming up to the ref and as he continued to hurl abuse a second yellow and a red should have been forthcoming.
Neil was walking back to his position waving his arms and got a second yellow and sent off, Harland comes steaming in like a Viking raider about to rape and pillage and the ref just stands there probably rooted to the spot in fear, if the premier league do nothing retrospectively about this incident along with when he came back on hurling such profaned abuse that sky felt it necessary to blur his face it will show that the big teams are too favoured.
 
No one criticises more than me when I feel they’ve dropped a clanger, but never should they have to put up with an outburst such as Haaland gave yesterday, the power is in the hands of the referee, yellow card, red card, deal with it.
 
Did you see the decision he made though :eek:

so what?

we need to stop excusing this behaviour. so the ref made a mistake. big wow. he doesn't deserve to be treated like that

every kid in the country is watching the biggest starts of the premier league acting like that and guess what, it filters down to grassroots football and now no one wants to be a referee anymore

we need to stop saying 'aye he he reacted bad, BUT the ref made a bad call'

theres no excuse for it. ever.

if you think the ref has purposely made a bad call then walk off the pitch and accuse him of corruption
 
Still can't understand what the ref was thinking. Did he just panic and blow his whistle out of force of habit? Did he not see Grealish and thought that Haaland booted it? Did he think Grealish was offside?

I didn't watch the game, did the pundits have any idea why he blew?
 
I agree that the decision was bad and that Harland had every right to feel aggrieved about it but the way he went on was so over the top that he should have been issued with a yellow as he was storming up to the ref and as he continued to hurl abuse a second yellow and a red should have been forthcoming.
Neil was walking back to his position waving his arms and got a second yellow and sent off, Harland comes steaming in like a Viking raider about to rape and pillage and the ref just stands there probably rooted to the spot in fear, if the premier league do nothing retrospectively about this incident along with when he came back on hurling such profaned abuse that sky felt it necessary to blur his face it will show that the big teams are too favoured.

This is what I hated about the Neil red card. Not that he was sent off, but that it was obviously not going to be consistent. Which it hasn't.

The referee that sent Neil off was demoted from the Premier League for something similar iirc, but if it's in the rules for a player to receive a card when shouting at the referee, is that not PGMOL discrediting/undermining their own rules by punishing the referee enforcing them?
 
VAR is undermining refs on the pitch, making their jobs more difficult and blatantly affecting their confidence.

We seem to be spending a lot more time talking about referees and refereeing decisions, since VAR came in. It’s ruining the game and should be completely scrapped. At least referees and linesmen used to have a defence of “well they only get one look at it, in real time”. Now they don’t have that, but they’re at the mercy of someone else’s opinion - some numpty sitting hundred of miles away in a VAR van.
 
We struggle to get refs for kids football.
I reffed an u11s game last week to help out. An hour of 'ref man, how's that not a foul' 'ref man, how have you missed that' it was constant.
Did an u8s game as well the same day, that's great fun, (apart from 1 parent).
when kids start watching the Premier league and playing fifa, that's when they learn the behaviour.
 
Yes they're well paid etc, but why do they have to put up with so much verbal abuse.

There is a photograph up on the BBC website at the moment of Haaland snarling in the ref's face after a decision was made he didn't agree with.

Imagine if Haaland made a really bad challenge, and the ref was in his face snarling, telling him what he thought of it before brandishing the red card, sounds daft but it would be no different to what Haaland did to him.
They choose to put up with the abuse. If they were to apply the written rules and do so in a consistent manner all this bs would dissipate.
 
Because they get all the support they could possibly ask for and still get simple decisions wrong weekly. Absolute whoppers the lot of them.
 
I agree that the decision was bad and that Harland had every right to feel aggrieved about it but the way he went on was so over the top that he should have been issued with a yellow as he was storming up to the ref and as he continued to hurl abuse a second yellow and a red should have been forthcoming.
Neil was walking back to his position waving his arms and got a second yellow and sent off, Harland comes steaming in like a Viking raider about to rape and pillage and the ref just stands there probably rooted to the spot in fear, if the premier league do nothing retrospectively about this incident along with when he came back on hurling such profaned abuse that sky felt it necessary to blur his face it will show that the big teams are too favoured.
Well Neil should have went in like he was about to rape and pillage then and he would have been OK 🤣
so what?

we need to stop excusing this behaviour. so the ref made a mistake. big wow. he doesn't deserve to be treated like that

every kid in the country is watching the biggest starts of the premier league acting like that and guess what, it filters down to grassroots football and now no one wants to be a referee anymore

we need to stop saying 'aye he he reacted bad, BUT the ref made a bad call'

theres no excuse for it. ever.

if you think the ref has purposely made a bad call then walk off the pitch and accuse him of corruption
So if that happened in a final or Man city needed 3 points to win the league what then ? I agree that Haaland went over the top but the ref made a horrendous mistake also. I agreed previously that the PGMOL are a piss take as well. If a ref makes a bad decision they get taken out for a week ( wow) I'm guessing they on a salary anyway ( might be wrong).
 
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Must be even worse for the fourth officials. The whole reason they're there (apart from holding up a big sign up from time to time) seems to be give the managers someone to shout at.

Can you imagine it? Standing in the cold and the only thing to warm you up is Jurgen Klopp's spit and breath in your lug. And they can't even respond with a yellow card.
 
Completely irrelevant really
I get they get abuse flung at them but players sometimes get 40,000 fans screaming at them shouting abuse every 2 weeks ( as far as I am aware it doesn't stop kids wanting to be footballers ). I said earlier I agree Haaland went over the top mate but referees are so wrapped up in cotton wool it's unbelievable, they never come out and talk candidly about a mistake they make ,all you get is a statement from PGMOL.
 

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