by Croydon Royal »
29 Oct 2012 09:03
bobby1413 I'm actually getting really sick of the "big clubs" attitude now. It feels like its got worse recently, maybe in the last year. Maybe because of so many off-the-field headlines.
I'm sick of managers criticising referees.
It's crazy that in a split second they must choose if its off side, a foul, a yellow/red, a penalty, a dive etc...
The nature of this means there WILL be mistakes. I love it, and it makes football more exciting. Managers continually moaning is pathetic and it seems to be the same people week-after-week.
Agreed, and what really annoys me is this idea from arrogant managers/pundits/fans that referees are "getting worse" and that something
must be done now. I know the game is quicker now, but referees have always had to make 100s of difficult decisions like these and have always got some right and some wrong, it's just now there's 50 cameras at every game covering it from every angle, and TV shows with hours to fill after the game where they can and will analyse every single incident a million times, and where they will interview managers for 20 minutes to allow them to moan and shift blame. People have always moaned about refereeing decisions, but it was in the hour in the pub after the game on Saturday night, or the manager having a little moan in the local paper. Now there's 24-hour news channels keeping the story running and trying to tease out more and more controversy as they lust for new content. Must admit it did amuse me seeing Sky Sports and Graeme Souness going crazy about how referees are killing the game etc on Sunday night, when really we all know that they'd be struggling to fill that redundant 2 hours after the match if every decision had been made correctly.