I don't understand how the appeals process goes but I also don't believe, from how swiftly we did it, we probs didn't do as good of a job as we could have done.
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They say decisions even themselves out over the course of a season.
I'm expecting at least 40 penalties between now and the end of the season to pick up from these cowards trying to relegate us.
I'm expecting at least 40 penalties between now and the end of the season to pick up from these cowards trying to relegate us.
Referees are the absolute dregs of society.
atypicalusername
Player Valuation: £35m
They hate us. I didn't want to believe it but between a significant amount of football media poisoning the well regarding the Goodison fans and the repeated unfavourable decisions I'm struggling to put it all down to incompetence. Would make avoiding relegation even more heroic because its us vs the footballing world right now it seems. Fair play to Shearer for showing integrity regarding the red card though.
The referees are a disgrace. They are ruining the game, and it's starting to get very difficult to believe that there is fairness.
Taifi gorm
Player Valuation: £10m
Referees are respectful, honest and accountable. Fully explaining their decisions and consistent in their vision of the game.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
They probably think it's part of the product.
Footy has a lot more opportunities for a crooked referee or referees to influence the game than many other sports. Scoring is rare, so a decision that takes a goal off the board or puts one on is massive. A referee has a ton of discretion over a card and its color. It's hard to spot, say, a very technical violation of the offside rule or a foul in the buildup.
We watch the game from a fixed angle, be that in a seat or through a camera. This limits what we can see, as well as how well we can see what we do see. I suspect it makes it easier to manipulate replays for offside calls as well, should they be so inclined.
I think that the TV money is so big now that they don't much care about their legacy fans. They thought they could make the revenue pie keep growing forever. Otherwise, why leverage themselves the way that they did to buy players? They figured they would grow out of the problem.
The "new" fans want their team to win. They generally picked a "big" team to follow. The league wants to give those fans what they want, in order to retain them.
In my opinion, they're making the same mistake NASCAR made through different means. NASCAR made a bunch of rules that alienated their base in order to chase after growth. The problem is that the "new" fans are fairweather. They will probably get bored eventually and move to the next trendy sport. When that happened, NASCAR had a very bad time.
If that day comes, a lot of top division clubs are going to have a bad time. The "investor" owners will get burned. The sovereign wealth clubs won't fold, but some of the remaining big clubs may go into administration if their owners decide not to throw good money after bad.
Footy has a lot more opportunities for a crooked referee or referees to influence the game than many other sports. Scoring is rare, so a decision that takes a goal off the board or puts one on is massive. A referee has a ton of discretion over a card and its color. It's hard to spot, say, a very technical violation of the offside rule or a foul in the buildup.
We watch the game from a fixed angle, be that in a seat or through a camera. This limits what we can see, as well as how well we can see what we do see. I suspect it makes it easier to manipulate replays for offside calls as well, should they be so inclined.
I think that the TV money is so big now that they don't much care about their legacy fans. They thought they could make the revenue pie keep growing forever. Otherwise, why leverage themselves the way that they did to buy players? They figured they would grow out of the problem.
The "new" fans want their team to win. They generally picked a "big" team to follow. The league wants to give those fans what they want, in order to retain them.
In my opinion, they're making the same mistake NASCAR made through different means. NASCAR made a bunch of rules that alienated their base in order to chase after growth. The problem is that the "new" fans are fairweather. They will probably get bored eventually and move to the next trendy sport. When that happened, NASCAR had a very bad time.
If that day comes, a lot of top division clubs are going to have a bad time. The "investor" owners will get burned. The sovereign wealth clubs won't fold, but some of the remaining big clubs may go into administration if their owners decide not to throw good money after bad.
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
He was worse than the referee that baldy no mark, waited every time for the fella who was supposed to be a referee to signal which way the throw was awarded to before he put his flag up, he got a huge ironic cheer near the end when he signalled for a foul for Everton, a complete dogsbody.
I genuinely thought it would at most be reduced to a game.
Even I am surprised by how corrupt they are.
Even I am surprised by how corrupt they are.
All these panels just exist to back up the dreadful referees and their dreadful decisions. It's a shambolic system in this country and the standard of officiating is a disgrace. How can they honestly expect us to believe there is fairness with these sort of decisions?
We need to start legal action
We need to start legal action
They exist purely to serve a select privileged group and they don’t care what the rest of us think of them. We’re just inconveniences.
How many apologies do we need to collect before we can cash them in for a fair refereeing performance?
The only country that pays refs professionally... amazing how they always favour establishment teams.
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