Why exactly can't we have that? High time players started taking a stand against blatantly terrible refereeing. The refs get away with murder and we have FA running respect campaigns.
I agree. It’s one of the shittier aspects of football and would be good to stamp it out.
What an absurd statement this is.
That would make sense only if FA would charge teams every time they gang up on the ref. But it seems that the decisions are taken based on how the ref submits his report. Which is ridiculous. Again, the major problem with FA is how they pick and choose their charges.
I'm not sure to be honest. I have played in some decent sides with tonnes of lads who played a few league games/National League games but never made it as a full-time professional. Three of my former housemates all still played semi-pro into their 30s for next to no money.
So according to you refs can be as bad as possible, but players should be okay with it?
I think there’s a line that the players didn’t just cross, they danced over. Behaviour like that doesn’t help raise refereeing standards, it actively lowers them by turning people off of refereeing, as well as unnecessarily increasing pressure which leads to more poor decisions.
It's been proven that putting pressure on the referee will give you advantage.
Whats the max amount of players?
10 but ref caught Martinez getting a piggyback off de Gea.
Should've thrown her a gang sign to make sure she knew you meant business.
Even refs have come out and said that things like SAF calling them out and putting pressure on them made them conscious of giving decisions against his team, so I don't think your last point holds much weight.
Players surrounding the referee in an attempt to bully them and influence the decision doesn't improve the quality of refereeing decisions. It definitely hampers the referee's ability to think clearly and make the correct call in a lot of situations.
How is questioning someone for making a wrong decision bullying them?
I agree. There's no point being top of the fair play league as that's not the game. It's all part of the dark arts and the collective hunger to win. But for my money they had better done that when Sancho was chopped down inside the box. Was absolute stone waller that. Don't mind the decision to disallow Ronnie's goal too much given they played to the whistle.
The specific situation being talked about here is Manchester United players crowding the referee and trying to influence his decision after Ronaldo stole the ball in a dead ball situation and kicked it in the net. We'd all be furious if Almiron did what Ronaldo did and successfully convinced the referee to award a goal. Why don't you explain how that sort of behavior improves refereeing decisions? Are we just ignoring the fact that teams used to regularly crowd the referee trying to influence them into making the wrong decision?
I'd much rather players contested decisions than be a bunch of shrinking violets and accept every bullshit decision that goes against them.
Because players always think they're right. They argue everything.
You have to take some responsibility, your kids weren't even playing in the match.
I never actually disagreed with this view, but if you mess with the bull you’re going to get the horns from time to time. Just accept it when you do like we have here, it’s simple enough.
Not necessarily specific to this situation, but I think it would be easier to accept these things if the actual decision was correct. Would also help if other clubs and managers were penalised when they were guilty too.
