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Bobby Madley got fired for an offensive joke on snapchat.Can’t remember a time when the FA or Refs turned on an official. We’ll never get to hear that recording and Dean will still be reffing matches for years to come.
Bobby Madley got fired for an offensive joke on snapchat.Can’t remember a time when the FA or Refs turned on an official. We’ll never get to hear that recording and Dean will still be reffing matches for years to come.
Bobby Madley got fired for an offensive joke on snapchat.
I don't disagree with this, but I keep reading how the fact we had no refs at the World Cup illustrates how crap they are.Although the numbers do seem to show Dean has made big errors in several of our games over the years since he 'celebrated' Dembele's goal, I can't help but think it's also the poor standard of our referees now. Few tournaments ago one of ours reffed a major international final, last summer we had none. You could probably go through every game this season and pick out more errors than correct calls. I honestly cannot think of one referee that I'd be happy to officiate our matches.
I know a lot of people don't like it, and I feel it needs a lot of work, but VAR is needed to assist the ineptitude of our referees. The time it takes to make a decision will get lesser and lesser with experience. It'll eventually become second nature. They should get a pre season with it, training etc.
What refs do we like?
I had no idea as to why, only knew we had zero representatives in the refereeing stakes. But, you cannot argue that the level of refereeing this season in particular has dropped.I don't disagree with this, but I keep reading how the fact we had no refs at the World Cup illustrates how crap they are.
The only reason we had no refs at the World Cup was because Clattenberg quit after starting the World Cup program, at the time Michael Oliver hadn't even reffed a CL game so wouldn't have been selected, the rest of them were too old or not experienced enough to be considered....had Clattenberg not quit then he'd have been there.
The cynic in me thinks its orchestrated to make us welcome the introduction of VAR next season.I had no idea as to why, only knew we had zero representatives in the refereeing stakes. But, you cannot argue that the level of refereeing this season in particular has dropped.
By all accounts the **** is a Tranmere fan
The cynic in me thinks its orchestrated to make us welcome the introduction of VAR next season.
Nobody is saying that we lost that specific game because of Mike Mean. However, when we look back over the records of him refereeing Spurs matches, the number of losses on an aggregated basis are too many. It takes the "co" out of "coincidental", and you are left with "incidental" which means factually happening.I’m on here because I’m a Spurs fan, I’d have thought that was pretty obvious. And I’m not digging out fellow fans, I’m digging out stupidity. We didn’t lose on Saturday because of Mike Dean, and no he doesn’t have an agenda to make us lose every time he officiated our games, so why the fuck do we have a 15-page thread dedicated to him on a Spurs forum? THAT’S odd.
If it were just this Mike Dean thing, then I wouldn’t be going so hard, but almost every time I log in here there’s a new reason why everyone hates us and the odds are all so irrevocably stacked against us. Anyone that expresses a criticism about us either hates us or is stupid and doesn’t understand the unique set of circumstances that means normal rules don’t apply to us, and anyone that praises us is obviously fair and speaks the truth. This is all so unbelievably delusional. Get mad at me by all means, but it won’t make any of this nonsense even a little bit more true.
The problem with VAR is it won't stop refs like Dean refereeing with the inequality he did on Saturday. Calling similar situations differently depending on the team will not be overturned by VAR.
Just look how he refereed forwards backing in, jostling and jumping for a ball. Kane and Llorente penalised time after time despite being clearly held, while the Burnley forwards could back into, hold and jump into out defenders unpunished.