Non contact sport

[specialun]

Yet another ridiculous refereeing decision in the burnley game today imo. I disagree with gavin peacock - never a red card. A high tackle but eyes on the ball, not too high and he got a touch on the ball - a yellow at most and from one of the better referees, alan wiley.

But the red card for trotter at ipswich was one of the worst i have ever seen - simply wrong.

Whether its premiership refs, premiership teams bias i'm not sure but it seems the the game has gone soft and mad - but neither were red cards imo.

Yesterdays ref did well - he let bitmingham get away with too much in the 1st half - not being 10 yards at freekicks, stealing yards on throw ins etc which he seemed to favour them with.

But generally - apart from the trip on brandon on the edge of box when he should have booked the full back and a few times he pulled play back rather than letting us break, he did well for a premiership ref with a premiership team.

[marshterrier]

Premiership referees sending off Championship players against Premiership teams.

If those two incidents had happened the other way round would they have ended with red cards? I doubt it.

[djay]

and guess what the arsenal boss never saw it how come he never see it when it a foul on is players but when one of them is sent off he see it all

[Dell12]

The worst refereeing decision was to sent off Worthington at Accrington Stanley. I still don't know why he was sent off ar even more bizzarly why the appeal was rejected. I agree though I thought the ref was decent yesterday in the main!

[tezbag]

not bad for a ref at the galph!

we'v ad sum SHOCKERS in the past....but who hasn't?!

[stevvy]

no no,the worst referee decision was to send off glennon against southend, and then to reject the appeal despite their player writing saying he slipped and no contact was made

[tezbag]

stevvy said:

no no,the worst referee decision was to send off glennon against southend, and then to reject the appeal despite their player writing saying he slipped and no contact was made

I couldn't BELIEVE that when it happened....i mean the player even WROTE to them to say he slipped!!!

[stevvy]

Thats my point. If the player himself wrote in support of Glennon, making it clear the decision was wrong, then what more evidence would they want? Plus the video evidence also showed that he slipped before getting to Glennon, was an insane decision to reject the appeal

[rdb]

I personally was so cheesed off about the Glennon 'appeal' that I wrote to the FA asking them to explain their logic. Here's their reply:

"Many thanks for contacting The Football Association.

Under FIFA rules, a Regulatory Commission of The FA can only overturn a dismissal if the Commission is satisfied that the referee made a serious and obvious error.

In accordance with FIFA directives, The FA cannot ‘re-referee’ matches. In the interests of fairness, claims for wrongful dismissal are allowed in the case of serious and obvious error only – as an exception to FIFA’s general approach. This facility is not supposed to give players a second bite at the cherry but to allow claims to succeed only in very limited circumstances. The onus is on the appealing Club to prove that a serious and obvious error has been made. This will often be difficult where a foul has occurred and the Match Official has exercised his discretion on the day in assessing the nature or seriousness of that foul.

Please note that no submission was made by the Match Officials in support of Matthew Glennon in this case. In the event that a Match Official does submit information in defence of a player that information would be considered by a Regulatory Commission as part of the wrongful dismissal process. However, it should be noted that this does not necessarily mean that the claim will be upheld due to the need for the error to be serious and obvious.

In relation to Matthew Glennon’s appeal, after taking all evidence into account the Regulatory Commission rejected the appeal. While you may not agree with the decision in Mr Glennon’s case, I can assure you that it was dealt with in line with all claims for wrongful dismissal.

Thank you once again for taking the time to contact us.

Kind regards,"

Given this, I don't ever see the point in appealing. Look on the bright side, at least they had the courtesy to reply.

[stevvy]

Yeah i also emailed them and got the exact same reply

[tezbag]

stevvy said:

Yeah i also emailed them and got the exact same reply

'Generic letter for ALL...anyone?!

[terrierng]

worse one was when clyde got brought down against wimbledon in a rugby tackle in the cup ,frigging ref blew we all cheered and he gives a free kick to them,that was bad.

[Floyds]

worthy at accrington was the worst sending off ive ever seen - unbelievable.

and the fact that he didnt get it rescinded makes the entire appeals process futile.

it wasnt a sending off at burnley, or at ipswich - any sort of sliding tackle should be sent off.

[Deleted]

I've written several posts about how crap our FA really are & how corrupt these people are at the top.

All I can say is that they're a self regulating body - that should give you a clue as to why they're such a shower of shit and so obviously corrupt & unless your face fits, then any appeal or attempt to get them to see sense will always fall on deaf ears - unless you're called West Ham or Arsenal.

They really do make my blood boil - sure I'm old enough and wise enough to accept this happens, but shouldn't stop us getting pissed off about these people so obviously feathering their own nest and appointing 'yes' men all the time!

Our FA = Wan**rs, the lot of em.

[kilroy]

Nar mates, it really was a sending off for lafferty. He put in a bad 'un against Sagna maybe 10 seconds before he lunged at Gilberto (although he did take the piss abit with his rolling around!). His studs were well up and had to go, i knew he was before the red card was shown.

I really like Lafferty but he did mean to produce a bad tackle there.

[Catown]

Can't agree with the post.
A clear red - his studs were showing - and he went over the ball - it doesn't
need to be two footed. Players also need to use some sense - this tackle is the hot topic
for referees at the moment and if they tackle like this they deserve to go.
I remember David Burke having his leg broken by Hopkins to a similar tackle at
Leeds Road when Sam Allardice wanted to break Hopkins' neck.

[Torquayterrier]

I think Forest are appealing against their sending off v Town on New Years Day, interesting to see if that gets upheld...

[Catown]

ON FA site.

Appeal refused