What do the authorities expect us managers on the touchline to do? Stand their like robots? You can't show any emotion. It's wrong! Just plain plain wrong!
How does the fouth official know he is disputing a decision and not showing frustration for a free kick being awarded on the edge of the area when they are in the accendency?
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WUM or weirdo?
Is this an attempt at a joke? If so, it's not funny.
You have no proof the referee is racist. In the absence of proof you should assume he is not a racist.
The original post is potentially libelous.
Clearly all responses prior to 12.20am on 15/8/12 relate too the original post before it was amended.
Powell agrees that he was right to be sent off, that puts the original issue to bed.
Well I have to rest my case
If he is saying he deserved it, then he must be right and it sort of makes me feel better!
What's annoyed me in that article is this: the referee was decent enough to put his hands up and say "my bad, I actually got that wrong" - thus awarding the wrong team a free kick for quite a nasty bit of play. Yet he then claims he's sending Powell to the stands to uphold the "image of the game". What about the image of the game when he missed half a dozen dodgy tackles and awarded a free kick to the wrong team? What about the fact that very few people actually saw Powells response yet ALL of them saw the play which led up to it, and all of them saw the REACTION to Powells incident.
Image of the game is a stupid excuse. It wouldn't have been noticed otherwise and it certainly wouldn't have overshadowed his own blotch on the image of the game; maybe that was the real reason?
If this was an important game I think we'd be seeing a different reaction to how that ref was today; perhaps also if we hadnt spent a year viewing some of the worst decisions go against us - and arguably the same amount go for us.
It is not only the players and fans duty to up uphold the image of the game but the officials too.
Agreed