I love that the Guardian posts a giant long piece of the intricacy of officiating and how seconds become a person's career. And the Daily Mail proves that point by using that one line, which was a throwaway anecdote from years ago, gets the breaking news treatment on Twitter https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...arriner-darren-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Finally getting a chance to watch Blackburn-Sheffield from the fa cup. They were obviously playing on pure desire but those are fun squads and I hope they come up.
so anytime you surround the ref you get charged but not if you wake up an unwilling woman with her penis in your mouth? Thanks Brexit!
or kick a cat or whatever. But the same FA that just selected for the England team a guy who admitted to 200 instances of betting on football is about to get real serious about surrounding a ref From a Fulham standpoint it feels like this is building to a statement-making punishment. Even though the bump Mitro gave to the ref would barely elicit a response if someone did that to you on the sidewalk, the commentary in the UK seems to be about how victimized referees are in general, so they are going to make an example out of Marco and Mitro. It's the equivalent of the old joke about the NCAA dropping the hammer on Cleveland State because they are mad at a big program. There won't be near the fanbase outcry from Fulham as there would be for a "big" club so it's the perfect case to make the point. The 3 game ban is warranted, maybe even a 6 game ban but anything over that is performative.
I think UK law may put the FA in a position where it can’t really act on allegations where the suspect’s name can’t be disclosed. That doesn’t mean that Arsenal has to play him, though.
Saw speculation that some think they’re doing this to try and get a higher value on the club for loans. That’d be amazingly hilarious.
it would be extremely funny if Everton got docked points and relegated this year for breaching ffp and in the same season man city win the title again
Like I said a 1,000 times, Spurs won't win a thing until they buy off the league referees and appeal to the Spanish government for a $1 billion bailout smdh
The words are still correct but the graphic is not. Conte didn’t win anything at Atalanta but he also wasn’t there 50 matches. He was there 4 months and things were so bad that he had a police escort out of his final match