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Post by PASTIE on Jun 4, 2007 22:46:18 GMT -1
Couldn't quite manage it. Sorry...  |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 5, 2007 6:50:56 GMT -1
I can understand him getting abuse during matches, but I think it's a bit shitty when he (and his family!) get abuse and threats sometimes for weeks after a game. For fuck's sake people, let it go - it's only a game!  |
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 7:52:46 GMT -1
never liked Poll myself but last nights documentary on him was very good. It did make you feel sorry for him. Everybody makes mistakes at work and forgetting a yellow card was understandable in all the confusion. The players have to look at themselves as well with all the theatrics which were going on.
And it is only a game.
When you see his wife mother and kids crying over how he was treated you realise something is wrong.
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Post by Fizzy Bread on Jun 5, 2007 8:47:29 GMT -1
Interesting insight into what it's like for a referee but I struggled to find sympathy for him too. He says he's not arrogant but rates himself as the best ref in the country and how he's had a fantastic record for most of his career (given his record is good) but I just got the impression he loves having power and decision making that can change whole seasons.
Yes football is a game and there are more important things in life but he just kinda dismissed football as 'just a game' in that it didn't seem to matter that much that it'd been his career for 25yrs+.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 8:51:51 GMT -1
He says he's not arrogant but rates himself as the best ref in the country good point Spozz......... |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jun 5, 2007 9:00:05 GMT -1
Man is a useless piece of shit and should have been sacked for his constant bad decisions, I hope he dissapears very quickly now!
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 9:02:44 GMT -1
i think it is reported he is going to become a pundit  |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jun 5, 2007 9:08:19 GMT -1
i think it is reported he is going to become a pundit I know mate, could be funny with the likes Ian Wright who speaks his mind and will fuck him off. But on the whole he's proved he does not understand the game. He'll be another Jimmy Fucking Hill  |
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Post by addicted2venos on Jun 5, 2007 9:09:21 GMT -1
I felt sorry for him, for all the personal abuse him and his family got ............. but he was an awful referee, and I'm glad he's gone!! ............ and I wouldn't like to see him as a pundit, unless it's for ITV as I refuse to watch their coverage of football!!
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 9:12:19 GMT -1
I reckon he will be on Sky |
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Post by addicted2venos on Jun 5, 2007 9:13:57 GMT -1
I reckon he will be on Sky ............ bollocks!! |
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 9:15:23 GMT -1
I reckon he will be on Sky ............ bollocks!! his ego wont let him disappear on ITV ;D |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jun 5, 2007 9:15:54 GMT -1
I felt sorry for him, for all the personal abuse him and his family got ............. but he was an awful referee, and I'm glad he's gone!! ............ and I wouldn't like to see him as a pundit, unless it's for ITV as I refuse to watch their coverage of football!! You forget he was paid £80K to do this job so badly, so the abuse be it personal should come with the territory as he seems to crave the limelight |
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Post by addicted2venos on Jun 5, 2007 9:47:32 GMT -1
I felt sorry for him, for all the personal abuse him and his family got ............. but he was an awful referee, and I'm glad he's gone!! ............ and I wouldn't like to see him as a pundit, unless it's for ITV as I refuse to watch their coverage of football!! You forget he was paid £80K to do this job so badly, so the abuse be it personal should come with the territory as he seems to crave the limelight I know the guy was a terrible ref, and a self important pompous arse. However when you hear how his kids, wife and mother have all had grief. Then I did feel sorry for him and his family. |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 5, 2007 9:53:09 GMT -1
You forget he was paid £80K to do this job so badly, so the abuse be it personal should come with the territory as he seems to crave the limelight Have to disagree - yes, abuse on the pitch is part and parcel of the job, and every referee probably expects it to a degree. Having a go at him - or worse, his family, who have nothing to do with it - for weeks afterwards is another thing though, and not anything any ref (opr anyone else) should have to put up with. It's not like he cost the people abusing him their jobs or killed a family member or anything is it? |
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 9:54:16 GMT -1
personal abuse whilst doing your job is not acceptable |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jun 5, 2007 9:54:29 GMT -1
In that regard I have sympathy for his family, but not him
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 5, 2007 10:00:38 GMT -1
In that regard I have sympathy for his family, but not him knew you had a heart somewhere  ;D |
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Post by spurrsgirl on Jun 5, 2007 10:23:50 GMT -1
The man is an eejit of the highest order.............he's lucky he's got a bloody wife ;D
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Post by MozzaBedfordSpur on Jun 5, 2007 10:37:40 GMT -1
The man is an eejit of the highest order.............he's lucky he's got a bloody wife ;D LOL LMAO ;D |
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