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Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - David Guyatt - 18-02-2010
The third clip in the below link. As a loyal Gooner I'm ready to make myself bald about this.
How can such poor Refereeing decisions be allowed to occur so often in top class matches? Soccer refereeing needs to be reformed along the lines of American Football or Rugby, where there is a TV Judge and all controversial / uncertain decisions are referred to him. It must not just be fair but must be seen to be fair.
http://www.totalfootballmadness.com/2010/02/17/porto-2-1-arsenal-video-goals-highlights/
Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - Chris Bowen - 18-02-2010
who was that clown you had in goal ?!
I presume he was back on the building-site this morning.
Wenger seemed to be getting a bit agitated on the touch-line but from the snippet of the press-conference I heard the professorial demeanour was back in place as he expressed mild disappointment at the vagaries of refereeing .
he's certainly a stark contrast to a certain other manager I can think of
Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - David Guyatt - 18-02-2010
Yup, clown is just about right name. The first goal anyway. Please God, can Mr. Fabianski be instructed to wake up when he's on the pitch. Dream-time is for after the match, okay?
It's really amusing to compare Wenger now to when he first arrived in the Premier League. Back then he rarely showed emotion, and never (or rarely) offered any sort of disparagement with the gentleman we like to call corruptees, er, sorry, referees (apologies about that, it must've been a betting slip, er Freudian slip). Today he fulminates, chews gunpowder and frowns so much he needs an urgent injection of Botox.
Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - Jan Klimkowski - 18-02-2010
David Guyatt Wrote:The third clip in the below link. As a loyal Gooner I'm ready to make myself bald about this.
http://www.totalfootballmadness.com/2010/02/17/porto-2-1-arsenal-video-goals-highlights/
As a lifelong Spurs fan, that goal put a big smile on my face, and I'm still chuckling now.
Supporting a football club is essentially tribal.
But of course each coach should be able to challenge a couple of decisions a match, by asking for review by a video referee.
Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - David Guyatt - 19-02-2010
If I wasn't a Gooner (there are family/bloodline connections going back to Herbert Chapman so basically I'm fooked!) I think I'd support Spurs (for awhile anyway!
). What Harry has done for them is tremendous. I absolutely am a fan of your wee mighty mouse striker, Jermain Defoe, who is in terrific form. Overall its nice, fast attacking football. Great to watch.Of course they don't have the panache of the Gunners, but hey...
Last weekend I watched the Rugby. The Ref called a player over and said that if he fouled again, he'd be sin-binned. Guess what the player said in reply?
"Yes sir". Bloomin hell, imagine that.
Football needs to have more able Refs, and a TV judge for important decisions that the whole stadium can also watch to see that the judgement is fair and impartial. I greatly favour EUFA's experimental box judges, that do appear to stamp out the professional fouls going on in the box and who can make more informed decisions about awarding penalties etc. But Refs are biased, they are sometimes crooked (if we use the Italian scandal a few years ago as a template) and taking important decisions out of their hands is, I think, an important step forward for fairness for the game.
Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - Chris Bowen - 19-02-2010
Yes but... if rugby matches had the same amount of commercial & financial consequences riding on their results as football I do wonder what that would do to the spirit in which it is currently played.
Quote:Last weekend I watched the Rugby. The Ref called a player over and said that if he fouled again, he'd be sin-binned. Guess what the player said in reply?
"Yes sir". Bloomin hell, imagine that.
Tearing my hair out - Porto goal against Arsenal last night - David Guyatt - 19-02-2010
American football is arguably as big or even bigger in all financial aspects and they manage to control the game in the same way we in Europe control Rugby. Lots of Refs on pitch and a TV judge in big plays.
Of course there is the other distinct possibility that football, like F1 motor racing, has now become such a profitable entertainment franchise by Sky and other broadcasters that the sports fairness aspect of it has been suicided in favour of "talking points" and other match controversies as a platform for generating ever more advertising, gambling revenue and supermarket beer sales.