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As much as Admin has thus far been rather antipathetic to generic threads - i wonder whether we might be given leave to discuss the black arts in a non-specific way...
...specifically - this evening at least - the indirect free kick awarded by everyone's favourite yellow-card wielder, Howard Webb.
It is quite difficult to quite so gast someone's flabber in the beautiful game - after all it is quite unusual to see something you've never seen before - but flabbergasted i nonetheless was with that particular decision.
I would be interested what others think about this, so i'll stake my own position, on the basis of a 'you are the ref'* scenario -
a) was it a back pass?
it may or may not have been - tricky one - i'll award an indirect free kick on the basis that it may well have been
b) the opposition want to take it quickly, but the defensive goalkeeper is out of his goal and remonstrating with me
the goalkeeper has a point, it's a close call - given i'm not going to change my decision, the very least i can do is to give the defending side the opportunity to defend, by not giving assent to the offensive side
c) wait until both defence and offence are ready to recommence play - blow whistle...
I genuinely cannot believe the man in black allowed play to progress in the way he did.
And it proper p***ed me orf.
Anyhow... please feel free to condemn/defend Our Man In Black - and use this occasional column for the venting of referee-based spleen 'down the line' (assuming Admin approval).
* for those unfamiliar with the bleeding-heart-pinko-commie paper that is the Grauniad You are the Ref is a long-running feature of the bleeding-heart-etc paper
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...specifically - this evening at least - the indirect free kick awarded by everyone's favourite yellow-card wielder, Howard Webb.
It is quite difficult to quite so gast someone's flabber in the beautiful game - after all it is quite unusual to see something you've never seen before - but flabbergasted i nonetheless was with that particular decision.
I would be interested what others think about this, so i'll stake my own position, on the basis of a 'you are the ref'* scenario -
a) was it a back pass?
it may or may not have been - tricky one - i'll award an indirect free kick on the basis that it may well have been
b) the opposition want to take it quickly, but the defensive goalkeeper is out of his goal and remonstrating with me
the goalkeeper has a point, it's a close call - given i'm not going to change my decision, the very least i can do is to give the defending side the opportunity to defend, by not giving assent to the offensive side
c) wait until both defence and offence are ready to recommence play - blow whistle...
I genuinely cannot believe the man in black allowed play to progress in the way he did.
And it proper p***ed me orf.
Anyhow... please feel free to condemn/defend Our Man In Black - and use this occasional column for the venting of referee-based spleen 'down the line' (assuming Admin approval).
* for those unfamiliar with the bleeding-heart-pinko-commie paper that is the Grauniad You are the Ref is a long-running feature of the bleeding-heart-etc paper
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