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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Watch the Angolan Reaction following a penalty given for a blatant handball in yesterdays game.   At first i missed the push on the Referee, but as you can see there is multiple push’s by various players.
I hope CAF or FIFA take action against the players involved.

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The main talking point of this weekend was the Andy Johnson goal for Everton being rulled out for Offside.  My view from the main offsides is that it wasn’t Offside.  I think there has been some talk about it and referring to interference but I think he thought that he was just straight Offside and [...]

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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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I didn’t see the game myself but caught on the news the Balloon Assisted goal from the Sheff United vs Man City game.   For those of you that didn’t see it, here is the goal.

 What is quite interesting though from a trainspotter Referee point of view.  Is that by law this would be an outside [...]

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