The Referee

Back in the early 90’s, i remember watching Gazzeta football italia on Channel 4 with James Richardson. One of the things I remember about the show was that each week he would sit outside a cafe and review the weeks football papers.  I always remember that one of the papers they used to review was [...]

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While ive been off ive watched a reasonable ammount of the Africa Cup of Nations. Ive quite enjoyed the tournament, but at times some of the challenges have been terrible and would normally be punished by red cards. However for some reason during the tournament they are happy to let them go with [...]

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At the start of this weekends matches the focus game was the Merseyside Derby, and at the end of the weekends matches this was still the case.The focus featured around 4 decisions by Referee Mark Clattenburg.
The first Liverpool penalty which resulted in Tony Hibbert being sent off.  It appeared that Mark had gone for a [...]

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According to Graham Poll at last years world cup Peter Crouch was targeted by FIFA because of his fouling when he jumped.

Poll said: “At the World Cup last year, we were shown videos of England games.
“The head of refereeing at Fifa said, ‘Look at this big fella Crouch. He’s a real pain and getting away [...]

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This weekend during the Arsenal vs Man City game you saw something that was quite rare in the Premiership.   An Assistant signaling for encroachment on a goalkeeper at a penalty.

You can see after the kick is taken that the assistant flags across his waist to signal encroachment.   Let me let in you on a secret.   [...]

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