Post by refsworstenemy on Apr 15, 2006 18:43:55 GMT
What an utter joke today's match officials were. Certainly contenders for the worst set of officials I have ever seen at a football match.
In a league not a million miles from the professional leagues, we should reasonably be able to expect referees who are able to referee a football match with only a slight error rate. No referee in the world is going to get every decision right, but to have got so many wrong as today's referee did was a joke.
I'm not suggesting the performance of the officials would necessarily have made the difference to the result, considering we lost by 3 goals. However, there may be times when clubs get stitched up by refs like this guy and take relegation as a consequence, and that costs clubs money.
I did spot my old next door neighbour down there, who is an ex-ref and occassionally is asked to assess referees from the non-leagues. I sincerely hope he was reporting on today's ref because he isn't fit to referee ever again. Nor were either assistants.
It comes as no surprise to me that none of the officials were named on the program. I would want to remain annonymous as well if I was that inept at my job.
Hope this rant wasn't too over the top, apologies to anyone who hates long moany threads!
In a league not a million miles from the professional leagues, we should reasonably be able to expect referees who are able to referee a football match with only a slight error rate. No referee in the world is going to get every decision right, but to have got so many wrong as today's referee did was a joke.
I'm not suggesting the performance of the officials would necessarily have made the difference to the result, considering we lost by 3 goals. However, there may be times when clubs get stitched up by refs like this guy and take relegation as a consequence, and that costs clubs money.
I did spot my old next door neighbour down there, who is an ex-ref and occassionally is asked to assess referees from the non-leagues. I sincerely hope he was reporting on today's ref because he isn't fit to referee ever again. Nor were either assistants.
It comes as no surprise to me that none of the officials were named on the program. I would want to remain annonymous as well if I was that inept at my job.
Hope this rant wasn't too over the top, apologies to anyone who hates long moany threads!