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Andy Gray going mad on Sky

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I don't agree that the refs who ref at youth/amateur football are power hungry, I just think they get absolutely abused by the players AND their parents for the whole match. A couple of times when I was playing, the refs had to be protected from scumbags at the end of the match. And I rarely ever saw them brandishing cards.

    I think it's good what stevie B did because hopefully it will set a precident.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Its stupid that Andy Gray gets about an hour ripping apart a players bad decision that they have only has 1/2 a second to make etc. Well done Andy, hindsight is an exact science, well done for pointing out obvious stuff. Useless pundit if you ask me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭smog


    Yeah it's far too accepted as the norm to abuse the ref. You never see it in rugby it's amazing it's tolerated in soccer.
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    Refs are miked in Rugby and players are aware of that and the obvious nessecity to keep the language down due to tv coverage. They are warned about this and as its newly professional, aware of the money that comes from tv rights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭themont85


    smog wrote: »
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    Refs are miked in Rugby and players are aware of that and the obvious nessecity to keep the language down due to tv coverage. They are warned about this and as its newly professional, aware of the money that comes from tv rights.

    Nope since the ameteur days of rugby there has been respect for officals. Its always been the way in rugby, and the mikes aren't the only reason why. In mini rugby, schoolboy, club and upwards there's a culture of respect, if you swear or are disrespectful you can get a penalty reversed or whatever the ref decides. Sure in football we always can tell when the players are swearing from lip reading, I don't see Sky pulling the plug on the substansial money they pay for it. Although i'm suprised at times they get away with closing in on a player with the camera who's angry with a good chance he'll swear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,718 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Dempsey wrote: »
    Its stupid that Andy Gray gets about an hour ripping apart a players bad decision that they have only has 1/2 a second to make etc. Well done Andy, hindsight is an exact science, well done for pointing out obvious stuff. Useless pundit if you ask me.

    +1. AND he has the use of technology. Whereas the referees have to make decisions on the spot.

    He should get his fat a**e out of the studio, put on the black kit, and try to referee a game to see how bloody difficult it is to make crucial decisions in a split second.

    :mad:


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