Disgusting!!!

[sim0n]

It clearly deserved a red. This double standard with manUre, gooners, and chel$ki getting away with murder compared to the rest of the premiership teams is a bore. We all remember Keano getting a straight red for a tackle nowhere near as ridiculous as cole's high, studs up disgrace. On a lesser level in the same game kalou dived in the Tottenham box twice with no effect from riley. Huddlestone drops once and riley rushes over to throw that yellow in Tom's face. Granted, a horrendous dive by Tommy :razz: but kalou's antics weren't much better, but riley didn't want to know when it came down to dealing with the chel$ki mob.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

just in case anyone hasn't been bored enough to go read up on Riley on Wikipedia, this is from the section headed "Criticism" :lol:

Riley was accused of major refereeing errors in an Arsenal-Manchester United game in 2004, which ended Arsenal's long running unbeaten run at the time, with the Daily Mail paper version reportedly using the headline "The Life of Riley".[6]

The former Bolton Wanderers manager, Sam Allardyce, once criticised him after Riley officiated between Blackburn Rovers and his own side on 14 January 2006.[7] Allardyce denied a charge of improper conduct by the FA following his comments[8], but was found guilty at a personal hearing, fined £2000, severely censured and warned as to his future conduct. Following the match Allardyce had said: "The stats just don't stand up when he referees us. In my opinion, it is not good enough - he nearly caused a riot." Opposing manager Mark Hughes had partly agreed, saying: "Both sides would argue the referee didn't have his best game but can't argue about the sending off."[9]

He was involved in controversy on 30 March 2006 after the sending off of a Levski player in a UEFA Cup 2005-06 quarter final tie, Levski vs Schalke. He showed a second yellow card to Cedric Bardon, although it was disputed whether there was any contact between him and the opposition player. After the game, Levski's president Todor Batkov called Riley a "British homosexual".[10]

After Chelsea's 1-0 win at Reading F.C. on October 14, 2006, Riley received more criticism, having allowed Petr Čech only to crawl off the field early in the game with what turned out to be a serious head injury.[11]

In a lighter vein, during the first half of the home match against Newcastle on 30 April 2007 Kingsley Royal, the Reading club mascot, was sent from the field by the referee for standing too close to the pitch. It was reported that one of Riley's assistants mistook Kingsley for one of the players and almost flagged him for offside. A spokesman for the FA said: "The referee reported to us that the mascot made a number of inflammatory gestures. I don't know what the gestures were and we are now making further enquiries and will look at video evidence."[12] After reviewing video footage the FA confirmed that they would be taking no further action.[13]

In a Euro 2008 qualifying match between Albania and Holland on September 12, 2007, Riley denied Albania a goal in the last minutes of the first half when Dutch defender Mario Melchiot headed a ball behind his own goalkeeper after an Albanian free kick. Riley cancelled the goal and gave a free kick to Holland. He was also said to have finished the game two minutes early, due to fireworks being thrown from the spectators' area.[14] The criticism in the Albanian media and from the Albanian players was very harsh. The Albanian Football Federation decided to file an official complaint with UEFA. [15]

 

[Bus-Conductor]

I posted an article on here a couple of years back, which was related to an extract of Jeff Winter's autobiography in which he described how referees had to be careful how the handled ManU. It pulled no punches and made it clear the difficulty referees could find themselves in if they were deemed unsuitable by Ferguson. He quoted clear instances and evidence. The gist of it being that ManU being the FA/EPL's flagship when selling the "product" to TV/media here/overseas that they had influence within those bodies. A great example was given of Uriah Renie. He consistantly forgot the golden rule and was subsequently demoted to the championship. Now Renie could be "unpredicatable" but I always admired the blokes integrity and the way he was consistant. The day he dared to send Saint Gary of Neville off at WHL is ensconsed in my memory.

Jeff Winter appeared on sky last year following the debacle of refereeing by Clatenberg (worst referee about currently) at WHL when Scholes & Rooney should have been sent off twice each. Not to mention the miraculous "didn't see the ball two yards over the line bounce".

The gist of my article back then was that I couldn't believe that this was allowed to continue as ultimately it undermines the integrity of the whole game. But it seems to have gotten worse with several managers coming out and complaing about the way the top 4 get special exemption from the rules.

I have no problem with refs making mistakes but what needs to be addressed is the way the EPL and FA instruct them and back them up with regards to treating everyone the same.

 

[double0]

The FA also lick ass to the premiership. The classic that summed it up for me was when Middlesbough disputed Aliadiere red-card against Mascerano, Aliadiere was given a extension to his red card.

Along comes money bag Chelski to dispute Lampards red-card and hey presto he gets off with it.

 

[Bulletspur]

Well we all now know that the FA before letting the matter could settle and giving time to properly assess the situation had come out immediately to say that no action will be taken against Cole. A few hours later he is rewarded with another England call up. I am also now certain that one of the players who was rigourously deffending Cole and ignoring Hutton who was on the ground, namely John Terry will be made England captian.

 

[yanno]

Any objective observer would have to conclude that the Big Four play by one set of rules, and the rest of English football by another.

Meanwhile Avram Grant is continuing to behave like the classless cretin he truly is:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ma...ourView&xml=/sport/2008/03/20/ufngrant120.xml

The incident took place in front of the dug out, but Grant claimed he did not see what had happened, although he did manage to catch the reaction of the Tottenham players which he claims was overly aggressive.
Grant said: "I didn't see it but I saw that the referee was very close. I was angry that everybody jumped on him (Cole) and all the Tottenham players and the bench reacted.
"I know when we do these things everybody says we are not behaving right. We have a lot of respect for referees."

 

[Stono]

Any footage of Poyet going mental over this? Would love to see that.

 

[Bulletspur]

Sourced from Pride of London Fourm. Still disgusting but one has to smile!!


"Following the assault by Ashley Cole on Tottenham's Alan Hutton last Wednesday and the subsequent argument with referee Mike Riley, the FA called in a lip reader to transcribe the conversation that ensued.
The FA released the script this afternoon.

AC "I got the f****g ball. The c**t dived. Are you blind or something?"

MR "You got him good. That's got be a booking."

AC "You useless c**t. You're an apology for a referee."

MR "Cut that out Ashley, else you're off."

AC "You one eyed c**t. Here's me f*****g name."

(Cole turns back on Riley)

MR "That's Cole A.? Correct"

AC "Wow, you aren't blind after all, you c**t."

MR "You're booked."

AC "C**t."

Cole has been charged with flattering the official."

 

[yanno]

Grant talking yet more shite:

"I think the team discipline is good," Grant told Sky Sports News. "It is not less than other teams, maybe a little bit more.

"You need to give credit to Ashley because he behaved like a mature guy. After what he did he apologised by himself, nobody forced him too.

"You need to give credit to him about this. He made a tackle and he saw it by himself that he needed to apologise.

"If it is not the first time maybe it is a worry, but it is the first time that he did it.

"I tell my players all the time to take responsibility for what you do because there are players who made worse tackles than this and didn't get even a yellow card and didn't apologise.

"I believe in discipline and I believe you have to respect everybody and I think they (Chelsea players) do it."
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_3331593,00.html

So, according to Grant, Cashley **** is a great guy deserving of our respect because after nearly splitting an opponent's leg in half, not accepting he'd committed a foul, deliberately intimidating the referee on the pitch to avoid getting a Red card, and nearly starting a riot, he makes a totally pathetic apology two days after the event. And he only delivers his meaningless "sorry" after Chavski have been told by the FA that they're too chicken to take any further action.

And Grant's claim that Chavski's discipline is better than other EPL teams is just too ridiculous for words.

It only goes to prove that if you pay someone enough dirty mafia money, they'll talk shite all day long...

 

[sim0n]

The FA also lick ass to the premiership. The classic that summed it up for me was when Middlesbough disputed Aliadiere red-card against Mascerano, Aliadiere was given a extension to his red card.

Along comes money bag Chelski to dispute Lampards red-card and hey presto he gets off with it.

No $hite, same thing with Keano's appeal.

In addition, maUre got away with murder again -- big game at old trafford, they better get every refereeing gift available. Voila, one-sided refereeing and a first half red just to be sure. OLE

:bang: