Yet again refs screw themselves

[Rattea]

Let me throw this into the mix!

Do you think managers make it worse?

Example McClaren against Burnley away saying "I've watched it 20 times and it was a definate penalty"

A. It wasnt a penalty .
B. It wasnt a sending off, it was a player slipping.

So McClarens comments were purely adding fuel to a fire. Clever or manipulative?

[Fletch_11]

[quote="AngryRam"]In principle I agree refs do have a difficult job - but there are occasionally wrong decisions that are bad decisions! The trouble is the laws of the game leave little flexibility once decisions are made and as a result sometimes mistakes are compounded.

Take Chris Martin getting sent off at Burnley and look at all of the implications

1. Martin gets a yellow card for slipping over and immediately the whistle is blown (wrong decision)
2. This leads to Derby unfairly being down to ten men in a high profile top of the table clash
3. The ball ended up in the net after Martin's slip in the same phase of play (which would have meant it was 1-1 and 11 v 11 at the point where Martin was sent off)
4. The game was unfairly ended as a contest by this wrong decision on the day leaving us 5 points behind Burnley when it could have been closer

4 1/2 - The Burnley fans en masse show themselves to be a comp

[Ramondo]

Just to add my thoughts into this one.

As has already been commented on, I think refs do get a lot of unfair stick. The game is played at a fairly fast pace these days and constant amendments to the rules don't make it easy to officiate. I can only imagine the psychological difficulty in making snap judgements when your every move is being reacted to by thousands of fans (mostly biased in one direction) as well as TV pundits and possibly home audiences in live televised games, players and managers.

Also, refs have to make 'grey area' decisions that they never used to have to. Was an off side player 'interfering' in play, was a fouled player in with a clear goal scoring chance, if a player goes down in the penalty area but it wasn't deemed a foul then was the player deliberately simulating in order to get a penalty?

A good point already made however is the ridiculous decisions that defy any common sense, or seem to. But then again, it's like being a player isn't it - it all seems so