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Worst referee in the league
  • 11blue
    Posts: 4,765
    Who do you think is the worst referee in the premier league? I could name about 10 but I think that Martin Atkinson is the worst. 
  • Cockney-Toffee
    Posts: 40
    Far too much time on your hands. 

    Why waste your time? Get it off your chest, by all means and have a rant, but really, sending in a letter and expecting a response? (other than the standard, of course) 

    Fair play to you for having no other worries in the world. :0)
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 20,151
    Congratulations to you for having the time to point out the time that he had that you think he wasted. Maybe you just wasted a bit too much of your time pointing it out? 
  • 11blue
    Posts: 4,765
    Far too much time on your hands. 

    Why waste your time? Get it off your chest, by all means and have a rant, but really, sending in a letter and expecting a response? (other than the standard, of course) 

    Fair play to you for having no other worries in the world. :0)

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    :-))
  • Russell82
    Posts: 840
    Still think Clattenberg is the worst.
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,753
    OldGoldenVision said:

    Congratulations to you for having the time to point out the time that he had that you think he wasted. Maybe you just wasted a bit too much of your time pointing it out? 


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    very good point well made sir :)
  • AndyForsyth
    Posts: 2,548
    Atkinson for me, JUST. Clats is not far behind. Worst ref EVER? David 'bald b*****d' Elleray
  • Beano
    Posts: 3,455
    Alan Wiley has to get a mention!!
  • BlueShark
    Posts: 1,410
    Clattenburg for me. Atkinson is incompetent, but I suspect that Clattenburg is actually corrupt. Didn't he get suspended a while back too?
  • NSNO
    Posts: 3,248
    The problem is no longer referees….the sport itself has become a total farce.
    Big game after big game is being decided by referees who are completely struggling….and it doesn’t matter how many games are ruined, FIFA UEFA and the Premier league refuse to modernize the game with video refs (which works so well in rugby)……

    Sepp Blatter and his cronies throughout the game have ruined football….

    There easily could have been a riot at Goodison on Saturday…..its only a matter of time before football fans have had enough…
  • BlueShark
    Posts: 1,410
    NSNO said:

    The problem is no longer referees….the sport itself has become a total farce.
    Big game after big game is being decided by referees who are completely struggling….and it doesn’t matter how many games are ruined, FIFA UEFA and the Premier league refuse to modernize the game with video refs (which works so well in rugby)……

    Sepp Blatter and his cronies throughout the game have ruined football….

    There easily could have been a riot at Goodison on Saturday…..its only a matter of time before football fans have had enough…


    True this.

    Whilst saying that the missiles thrown last Saturday were in no way justified, they are understandable.

    The game itself is rotten from the inside out. Too much money, little or no accountability, and too much power in the hands of those who cannot be challenged (Blatter and the FA being the best two examples).
  • Daive521
    Posts: 2,517
    I totally agree. We have so much technology at Most Stadiums, a Video replay of Major incidents would be easy. Heck even Tennis has 'Hawk-eye'.
  • Beano
    Posts: 3,455
    NSNO said:

    its only a matter of time before football fans have had enough…



    I don't think that's true.

    Until Man Utd go thru 10 years of being robbed every second year in Manchester Derby's and going a whole season without getting a penalty and getting almost every borderline major decision go against them against Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - and getting half the team booked in a game against Man City where they didn't commit one dirty tackle....and when the same kind of thing starts happening to Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea also, only then will Sky Sports, and therefore the masses who are brainwashed by them, start stamping their feet! And we know man Utd and their like being subjected to that will never ever happen!

    I said it here on Saturday. How many times does the same "Mistakes" have to go in favour of the same clubs in the same fixtures over and over again before people start saying that these bad decisions are not genuine "mistakes" at all. And this is the reason why Blatter will never sanction the introduction of video evidence - Because it would remove their ability to influence results thru these "mistakes". There's nobody as blind as those who WON'T see....and the fact that Man Utd have only conceeded 11 league penalty's at Old Trafford in the entire 19+ years of the Premier League.....NONE in the last 4-and-a-half years to anyone other than Liverpool, is only part of the evidence that we see every single week!

    But hey, when we're screwed in the derby again this time next year, the masses will have again forgotten that we got screwed last Saturday and will still think it's just a one-off unlucky day for the Toffees with no recognisable pattern behind it!
  • AllAroundMyHat
    Posts: 809
    the game is buggered. there are just too many inconsistancies in football these days. mainly in referees decisions.
    anyway...we all know that. funny..i was chatting with a mate today at work and he isnt a big football fan and he was said footy is a farce. Why dont they have a video umpire to stamp out stuff. . Even though footy is my game i couldnt disagree with him. it is kinda embarrassing.

    anyway....bad referee huh......well Clattenburg is bad but Atkinsons error is unforgiveably...and i would say that even if i was neutral.......

    Whatever happened to Uriah Rennie.... I remember he was brilliant when he first started and everyone was raving about him and then suddenly he had some howler games..now hes totally off the radar
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,753
    AllAroundMyHat said:

    the game is buggered. there are just too many inconsistancies in football these days. mainly in referees decisions.
    anyway...we all know that. funny..i was chatting with a mate today at work and he isnt a big football fan and he was said footy is a farce. Why dont they have a video umpire to stamp out stuff. . Even though footy is my game i couldnt disagree with him. it is kinda embarrassing.

    anyway....bad referee huh......well Clattenburg is bad but Atkinsons error is unforgiveably...and i would say that even if i was neutral.......

    Whatever happened to Uriah Rennie.... I remember he was brilliant when he first started and everyone was raving about him and then suddenly he had some howler games..now hes totally off the radar


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    think they let him go cos he was black mate
  • AndyForsyth
    Posts: 2,548
    AllAroundMyHat said:

    the game is buggered. there are just too many inconsistancies in football these days. mainly in referees decisions.
    anyway...we all know that. funny..i was chatting with a mate today at work and he isnt a big football fan and he was said footy is a farce. Why dont they have a video umpire to stamp out stuff. . Even though footy is my game i couldnt disagree with him. it is kinda embarrassing.

    anyway....bad referee huh......well Clattenburg is bad but Atkinsons error is unforgiveably...and i would say that even if i was neutral.......

    Whatever happened to Uriah Rennie.... I remember he was brilliant when he first started and everyone was raving about him and then suddenly he had some howler games..now hes totally off the radar


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    I wondered this also, so I checked him out last week, turns out he's retired. I didn't realise how old he was, but apparently he's 52, so would have retired approximately seven years ago as I believe the retirement age for a ref is 45. I agree, he was a good ref when he started out, but then like you say, he had some shockers and was never the same again. Same with Webb, used to really rate him when he started out, now he's just as bad as the rest of them.




  • AllAroundMyHat
    Posts: 809
    sambo applecart said:

    AllAroundMyHat said:

    the game is buggered. there are just too many inconsistancies in football these days. mainly in referees decisions.
    anyway...we all know that. funny..i was chatting with a mate today at work and he isnt a big football fan and he was said footy is a farce. Why dont they have a video umpire to stamp out stuff. . Even though footy is my game i couldnt disagree with him. it is kinda embarrassing.

    anyway....bad referee huh......well Clattenburg is bad but Atkinsons error is unforgiveably...and i would say that even if i was neutral.......

    Whatever happened to Uriah Rennie.... I remember he was brilliant when he first started and everyone was raving about him and then suddenly he had some howler games..now hes totally off the radar


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    think they let him go cos he was black mate

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    im disappointed to hear you say something like that Sambo
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,753
    AllAroundMyHat said:

    sambo applecart said:

    AllAroundMyHat said:

    the game is buggered. there are just too many inconsistancies in football these days. mainly in referees decisions.
    anyway...we all know that. funny..i was chatting with a mate today at work and he isnt a big football fan and he was said footy is a farce. Why dont they have a video umpire to stamp out stuff. . Even though footy is my game i couldnt disagree with him. it is kinda embarrassing.

    anyway....bad referee huh......well Clattenburg is bad but Atkinsons error is unforgiveably...and i would say that even if i was neutral.......

    Whatever happened to Uriah Rennie.... I remember he was brilliant when he first started and everyone was raving about him and then suddenly he had some howler games..now hes totally off the radar


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    think they let him go cos he was black mate

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    im disappointed to hear you say something like that Sambo

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    i only repeat what i hear mate, the lads in the office told me that!

    nothing racist about me my friend :)
  • NSNO
    Posts: 3,248
    Beano said:

    NSNO said:

    its only a matter of time before football fans have had enough…



    I don't think that's true.

    Until Man Utd go thru 10 years of being robbed every second year in Manchester Derby's and going a whole season without getting a penalty and getting almost every borderline major decision go against them against Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - and getting half the team booked in a game against Man City where they didn't commit one dirty tackle....and when the same kind of thing starts happening to Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea also, only then will Sky Sports, and therefore the masses who are brainwashed by them, start stamping their feet! And we know man Utd and their like being subjected to that will never ever happen!

    I said it here on Saturday. How many times does the same "Mistakes" have to go in favour of the same clubs in the same fixtures over and over again before people start saying that these bad decisions are not genuine "mistakes" at all. And this is the reason why Blatter will never sanction the introduction of video evidence - Because it would remove their ability to influence results thru these "mistakes". There's nobody as blind as those who WON'T see....and the fact that Man Utd have only conceeded 11 league penalty's at Old Trafford in the entire 19+ years of the Premier League.....NONE in the last 4-and-a-half years to anyone other than Liverpool, is only part of the evidence that we see every single week!

    But hey, when we're screwed in the derby again this time next year, the masses will have again forgotten that we got screwed last Saturday and will still think it's just a one-off unlucky day for the Toffees with no recognisable pattern behind it!

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    yep fair point.....and you can make the same point with spanish foottball, international football, etc..........i have to say as an Everton fan, and an Ireland fan.....i've had enough of this "sport"......
  • NSNO
    Posts: 3,248
    Beano said:

    NSNO said:

    its only a matter of time before football fans have had enough…



    I don't think that's true.

    Until Man Utd go thru 10 years of being robbed every second year in Manchester Derby's and going a whole season without getting a penalty and getting almost every borderline major decision go against them against Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - and getting half the team booked in a game against Man City where they didn't commit one dirty tackle....and when the same kind of thing starts happening to Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea also, only then will Sky Sports, and therefore the masses who are brainwashed by them, start stamping their feet! And we know man Utd and their like being subjected to that will never ever happen!

    I said it here on Saturday. How many times does the same "Mistakes" have to go in favour of the same clubs in the same fixtures over and over again before people start saying that these bad decisions are not genuine "mistakes" at all. And this is the reason why Blatter will never sanction the introduction of video evidence - Because it would remove their ability to influence results thru these "mistakes". There's nobody as blind as those who WON'T see....and the fact that Man Utd have only conceeded 11 league penalty's at Old Trafford in the entire 19+ years of the Premier League.....NONE in the last 4-and-a-half years to anyone other than Liverpool, is only part of the evidence that we see every single week!

    But hey, when we're screwed in the derby again this time next year, the masses will have again forgotten that we got screwed last Saturday and will still think it's just a one-off unlucky day for the Toffees with no recognisable pattern behind it!

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    yep fair point.....and you can make the same point with spanish foottball, international football, etc..........i have to say as an Everton fan, and an Ireland fan.....i've had enough of this "sport"......
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