Referees, Respect and Rooney
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|10:39 UK time, Friday, 8 April 2011
Referees, respect and Rooney - you'd have done well to have heard one of my sports bulletins over the past month without any of these being mentioned. As I drove to Hertfordshire to accept a Football Association invitation to be a referee for the day, I found myself asking two questions: Do referees deserve their rough ride? How hard can the job actually be?
I'd be welcomed by FA bosses, given a theory test on the laws of the game, and then actually referee an academy game. So not only might I find that I don't fully understand all of football's rules, but I could also be facing the prospect of being verbally abused on the pitch by the county's top teenage footballers. Why would I agree to that? I quite like a challenge, so I decided to give it a go.
Arriving unshaven in a pathetic bid to look intimidating, I am greeted by my guide Roger Vaughan, a national referee manager and a thoroughly good bloke. This is a relief, having had visions of boot-camp tutoring by Pierluigi Collina's more intimidating older brother.
Roger and his colleagues, including 2002 World Cup final assistant Phil Sharp, outline some of the pressures officials are under. Phil tells me that he could make a dubious offside call early in a game that leads to or denies a goal and regardless of the remainder of his performance, he knows he can only be marked 59/100 by his assessors.
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At 07:40 9th Apr 2011, zelda wrote:Rooney and Respect - the words don't belong in the same sentence. Football Referees should be respected and be a lot tougher on the players.
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At 15:26 10th Apr 2011, carrie wrote:Sky had a very interesting football discussion programme this morning, Paddy Barclay was so right about Rooney and all his fellow badly behaved mates in the Premiership. Referees should sting them all with bans or fines, teach them a lesson by not letting them get away with any bad behaviour, forget about their primadonna status and actually use the rule book. Then referees would be doing their job properly. 5Live giving airtime last week to whichever Neville was quoting his Granny about swearing not being a bad thing is just sitting on the fence BBC, why can't some of your presenters take a stand and mean it, Green seems to be the only one who shows disgust.
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At 16:46 10th Apr 2011, U14804610 wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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At 19:24 10th Apr 2011, carrie wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 20:58 10th Apr 2011, Fedster wrote:Chris Evans hosts live coverage of the final round of the Masters from Augusta on 5live from 21;00
4 hours of live Golf, what more do you want Carrie?
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At 21:06 10th Apr 2011, ryanw wrote:You can't please all of the people all of the time...
I could do without the golf. Would much prefer to be listening to 5Live Investigates... can do without Shouty Nolan though rehashing his NI show.
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At 21:31 10th Apr 2011, arthur mee wrote:The fact that Chris Evans is anywhere near this event is a further indication of what has happened to this once fine station. Where are the sports presenters?
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At 22:02 10th Apr 2011, carrie wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 13:56 11th Apr 2011, darlogas wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13028381
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At 14:14 11th Apr 2011, darlogas wrote:So. For TV and Radio, BBC had; Hazel Irvine, Peter Alliss, Ken Brown, Andrew Cotter, Wayne Grady, Mark Pougatch.
Chris Evans, Iain Carter, John Murray, Alistair Bruce Ball, Jay Townsend, Andrew Magee; to cover some men walking around hitting a small ball with a variety of sticks.
Worth every penny of our licence fee!
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At 15:18 11th Apr 2011, carrie wrote:Ian Carter seems to be in love with Tiger. And Chris asked Jay Townshend who he wanted to win and was reproved. Chris wasn't always appropriate with his comments either.
Perhaps we could have Wayne Rooney next year? That would liven it up a bit.
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