Respect part deux

So last time I was very lazy and just used a friends blog to make my point. However, I'm now going to add to that with some events from last week. I might rename this blog 'Refereeing - How to cock everything up'.

So Havant & Waterlooville were playing against Dorchester and some twat decides to interrupt the game in a mankini. Dumb as this is, the stewards fail to control him, or do anything at all, and so he's running around like the douche he is. Then one of the Dorchester players takes him down, not maliciously, just grabs his shoulders and wrestles him to the ground before the inept stewards lead him off. And then the ref decides to send off the tackler, no pun intended. Heres the video just to show you what the player did. I say player, turns out hes the clubs player/manager..... Video times

Now, by the letter of the law the referee should send him off as he acted violently. But, surely common sense should kick in there and say 'hey, he stopped the guy, this is a good thing'. He didnt punch/kick/headbutt the guy, just got him on the floor so the stewards could take him away. So, the ref sent off the player/manager when the game was poised at 1-1, H&W went on to win 3-1. Although Dorchester did have 2 more players sent off.

Then in an incident between Barcelona and Arsenal, Robin Van Persie was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for kicking the ball away. This happens constantly in football games and you know when a player does it deliberately as they usually throw their arms in the air and then boot the ball away. RVP didnt do this and seeing as the Nou Camp is a very large stadium with a lot of passionate fans, so it is entirely possible that he didnt hear the whistle. However, on the video that I have for all you lovely people, you can hear the whistle. This may be that the microphone was closer to the whistle than RVP, I dont know, but have a watch for yourself... Aren't videos fun

So either, he was right to be booked for kicking it away or all refs should agree on the punishment for this act. As it happens in every game and mostly goes unpunished. And I must talk about the referee yesterday who was easily the WORST referee I have ever seen! I dont think he got one decision right. At one point, our striker Dave Kitsons shirt was being stretched into a XXL and he got a free kick against him!! So Phil Crossley, Fuck you! Go read a rulebook and then maybe you can ref in the local Sunday league.

There needs to be a review of referees and their assistants as this is getting ridiculous. As Mike said they have started this 'respect' campaign but there is nothing to respect. In Rugby as soon as the whistle goes the players break apart. They dont surround the ref and they take every ruling as it is given. Maybe footballers should start doing this and we can just forget that the twat in black is even there.

So it has been another awful week for football referees and another blog slating them for their decisions.
Thats all for today, I'm bored of moaning about a lack of common sense or knowledge of the rules in the game. Something needs to be done for the good of the game, but knowing the FA nothing is going to happen anytime soon.

Goodbye all.