[Osborne again]

HaslandBlue58, on 08 January 2025 - 03:30 PM, said:

Pretty much what I respond with when the 'how much abuse refs. get' argument arises.If a ref. is just crap,I want him to be crap for both teams,then I do not have much of a problem with that.It is the 'look at me and with my own rule book' types that get my abuse.

You sound very much like myself and expect the match to be officiated in a fair and proper manner. Probably we're being old-fashioned but I don't like the way dark arts are allowed to prosper by weak refs.

[HaslandBlue58]

Osborne again, on 08 January 2025 - 04:41 PM, said:

You sound very much like myself and expect the match to be officiated in a fair and proper manner. Probably we're being old-fashioned but I don't like the way dark arts are allowed to prosper by weak refs.

Personally find it a disgrace the amount of ,let's not call it dark arts,let's call it cheating and far from the spirit of the game,that can be enacted and is allowed and allowed to thrive.Let's be honest here,it is not just the refs.,surely the refs.association and FA/EFL should be doing a lot more.It is more understandable in the NL where the top table is ...... probably best not to say what I think in writing... ,but why it has a place in league football I cannot begin to understand.
Whilst on this matter,are linesmen/linesperson,whatever the correct phraseology nowadays,not allowed to make a decision or question a refs. decision because I have given up on seeing a competent lino at the stadium,especially running the west stand line?