Quote Lawrie L="Lawrie L"I'll be suprised if we see this ref again, total joke'"
It's like watching 22 big headed school bullies kicking a ball around and the ref is the kid they used to bully. Now he has 90 minutes of power, a whistle and a pocket containing some coloured cards (which will eventually be stolen off him just like his dinner money was every day).
The players get 100 grand a week and the ref gets his bus fare home. Refs are kids that were cr@p at football and had their pants thrown in the bog at the end of games lessons. What do you then expect from these people? Qualifications for the position of football ref include:
Pale, knobbly legs (or short, hairy ones),
Zero peripheral vision,
Poor vision in general,
Selective deafness - particularly to the most common swear words,
Hitler complex,
Memory span of a goldfish (if a player does a Klinsmann every tackle why do refs never take this into account when judgeing off the ball "incidents" involving the player),
No anotomical knowledge whatsoever (the "face" does not begin at a players upper thigh),
Compulsion to make snap decisions based on the noise the crowd makes or the mouth frothing reaction of a team coach,
Innability to keep any dinner money away from bullies.
Love of the game.
