England v Colombia

[BigLadonOS]

I didn't think he spoilt it grist, I just thought that whatever he did that someone would think he was wrong. It wouldn't have even mattered that he was abiding by the laws of the game, more than a few people would have thought he was wrong, which is exactly , in my opinion, how Howard Webb is viewed.
I thought webby had a great game in his world cup final, in a match that I viewed as unrefereeable, just like the colombia game.
Do referees keep sending players off to the point where the game gets abandoned as there aren't enough on the pitch? Because if that happened at a world cup game then I'm pretty sure who will get blamed for it........the ref.

The ref is there to see that the rules of the game are adhered to and punish players for breaking those rules. I'm not being funny here but the ref should have no interest in how the game turns out even if its down to 5 v 5 that should not be his concern and if you are saying that it is we may as well play goalie when needed and throw the rule book out of the window. He was utter ****e and should not ref another game in the comp.

Also that ***cing idiot running VAR should only tel the ref he might want to look at the footage and not give his opinion on what the punishment should be as that should always be down to the man on the pitch, any ref worth his salt would have done that but this ref bottled it and let someone else take the responsibility for that decision.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Bottom dollar is that Colombia kept all of their players on the pitch and nearly, very very nearly their spoiling tactics and thuggery nearly got them through to the next round.

Their “style” needs on the spot punishing so that chances of profiting from it are reduced to basically nil. That on the spot action is in the hands of the ref.

Just enforce the existing rules for god’s sake, it’s that easy.

[sawmiller]

Bottom dollar is that Colombia kept all of their players on the pitch and nearly, very very nearly their spoiling tactics and thuggery nearly got them through to the next round.

Their “style” needs on the spot punishing so that chances of profiting from it are reduced to basically nil. That on the spot action is in the hands of the ref.

Just enforce the existing rules for god’s sake, it’s that easy.

Diego Maradona slagging off both the referee and England in the press - saying we shouldn't and didn't deserve to win and that we robbed Colombia - see link


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44716774

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

As the medical people will point out, long term substance abuse destroys the brain function, even if you haven’t got much of one in the first place.

[sawmiller]

I would certainly like to know exactly what we did to create bias/badger the referee and how, exactly we 'robbed' them of victory? Ah, we won a penalty shoot out.....Maradona should know all about robbing teams of victory - Mr 'Hand of God'...

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

You see, that’s what it is, cheat often enough (and get away with it) and it becomes “normal” behaviour

[sawmiller]

What frustrates me Grist is that most of these are decent/good players, if only they'd allow themselves to play instead of play acting...

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

But cheats do prosper

Leeds United for example under Revie

[sawmiller]

Ah yes - didn't we play a cup tie against them during that era and summarily get kicked off the park?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Which was the fate of many other teams during those dark times.

Incidentally now that there’s been another UK couple poisoned with nerve agent Novichok are we going to boycott the World Cup like the twitter sheep originally wanted?