Webb is one of the better refs.
Clattenburg is definitely one of the worst, I put him in the Halsey/Steve Bennett class of shitness.
Total top 4 ****.[/quote]
I hope your putting Styles in this group:wink:
You must be delighted that Halsey has the cup final? I thought it was a bad joke when I saw that!
Twattenberg cost us again yesterday 3 mins stoppage time, they score 94 1/2 mins!!
...or till manure scores...They can play as many extra as they think are appropriate.
The refs have been helping out the big four for sometime now, why do they do it? Who knows, might be subconscious, might be they are intimidated by their players, might be that they are bent, might be that the authorities are bent and lean on them, but something needs to be done, because it's so blatant, game after game the big four getting decisions in their favour, it's well beyond coincidence.
Actually, I thought Clattenberg was ok on Saturday. He got most big decisions right and the tackle on Evra could well have been a penalty to Man U.
As for timekeeping, in the time it took for Keano to leave the pitch (and Clattenburg watched his watch the whole time) Man U would never have got the corner
Clattenberg may have made some mistakes, but the way both sets of players surrounded the ref, screaming in his face, was an ABSOLUTE DISCRACE.
until the FA actually pull their thumbs out of their arses and make it clear that any kind of protest will be rewarded with a yellow card, we will continue to get a poor standard of referees because nobody with half a brain would want the job.
The referee is the boss of the game, and should be treated as such. The refs in rugby used to get abuse from the players too, but this was clamped down on, and now it is absolutely clear that back-chat, or dissent of any kind will be punished.