Proof refs are bent! Halseys memoirs

[royalblue66]

Who the F would read this book?

the same knobs who used to ask the likes of Uriah Rennie for his autograph on Goodison Ave before the match.

 

[Allezfan]

Graham Poll had a signed Gerrard shirt in his front room.
I find that odd.
My opinion only AF.
( unrelated to my above post btw. )

I'm friends with people whose work I have to judge, most bosses are. Hell players and managers are different clubs are friends off the pitch all the time.

Ref's are always going to have opinions on managers and players, because everybody has opinions on those they encounter, the point is we should ensure those opinions shouldn't effect their decisions, not that we should ban them from being friendly.

 

[Brennan]

I'm friends with people whose work I have to judge, most bosses are. Hell players and managers are different clubs are friends off the pitch all the time.

Ref's are always going to have opinions on managers and players, because everybody has opinions on those they encounter, the point is we should ensure those opinions shouldn't effect their decisions, not that we should ban them from being friendly.

There should clearly be boundaries and it seems that some referees overstep them. Having a signed Gerrard shirt in your front room, for example.

 

[noharmdone]

I'm friends with people whose work I have to judge, most bosses are. Hell players and managers are different clubs are friends off the pitch all the time.

Ref's are always going to have opinions on managers and players, because everybody has opinions on those they encounter, the point is we should ensure those opinions shouldn't effect their decisions, not that we should ban them from being friendly.

I get it mate.. But I'm sure the lads who's work you judge haven't got your pic on their wall in their homes ?
( Although your a fine looking man like. )

 

[Chang Elephant]

Martin Samuel in the Mail nails it for me:

"Reading about Halsey’s special relationship with Jose Mourinho, for instance, and his text exchanges with Sir Alex Ferguson only reinforces the belief that the managers of small clubs are correct when they claim the elite are treated differently.

Referees, by their nature, revere authority and there are no greater authority figures in football than top coaches like Mourinho and Ferguson."

To paraphrase, they're semi inadequate ****s that struggle psychologically with the concept of a late Everton winner against Liverpool for instance....Thomas, Poll etc and act accordingly. They see a hierarchy to games involving certain clubs, and that's well reinfiorced by the referee facilties and lavish hospitality that those clubs provide to them.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

But why would any self respecting ref wanna be friends with Steve Bruce or Alan Pardew?

 

[davek]

Martin Samuel in the Mail nails it for me:

"Reading about Halsey’s special relationship with Jose Mourinho, for instance, and his text exchanges with Sir Alex Ferguson only reinforces the belief that the managers of small clubs are correct when they claim the elite are treated differently.

Referees, by their nature, revere authority and there are no greater authority figures in football than top coaches like Mourinho and Ferguson."

To paraphrase, they're semi inadequate ****s that struggle psychologically with the concept of a late Everton winner against Liverpool for instance....Thomas, Poll etc and act accordingly. They see a hierarchy to games involving certain clubs, and that's well reinfiorced by the referee facilties and lavish hospitality that those clubs provide to them.

Spot on, they're corrupt bastards. And the one's not on the take are servile slugs in awe of celebrity managers.

In any decent walk of life Clattenburg would now be plying his trade in a Sunday ale house league, preferably getting gobbed every week.

 

[neville]

Graham Poll had a signed Gerrard shirt in his front room.
I find that odd.
My opinion only AF.
( unrelated to my above post btw. )

Good evening Fergie Football bloody hell