Comments on: Do English referees give England players favourable decisions ?

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:14:45 +0000

maybe the reason scholes didn’t get sent off was because it was his second foul of the game and would have been extremely harsh?

By: lele

lele — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:17:09 +0000

This is the crime wenger have commited for long. fielding more non english players and refs do not like his team while liking his football. there have been costly decisions in the EPL against arsenal this season such as adebayor’s disallowed goal againts aton villa and penulty claim against liverpool

By: FF

FF — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:06:36 +0000

Yellow and red cards should be given by the video ref. Period. Actually, everything that matters should be left to the video ref, but for yellow / red cards there’s not even the lame excuse that it would slow down the game.

By: Luke Smith

Luke Smith — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:09:17 +0000

I guess, with regards to the Ronaldo headbutt incident, whilst he may have ‘feigned’ the attempt, there was intent and it was rightly a red card. Similarly, Vieira was sent off at Old Trafford for kicking out at Ruud Van Nistelrooy, despite not coming anywhere near to touching him, so there is precedence.

By: Raed

Raed — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:34:28 +0000

@ Karl: Yeah at least they don’t kick stewardess’ and claim it was a sponser board. Espcially since that person in question is a touted future England captain.

Also I’m under the impression footballers have hands, then arms, no biceps, then shoulders, hence the ball always hits the “shoulders” missing the biceps.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:15:48 +0000

@Raed – Pity they don’t punish people who bring the game into disrepute by fighting with their own team-mates in front of a live full-house stdium, televised internationally.
Ferdinand was definitely a shoulder. On the other hand, as someone mentioned previously, what about the Scholes penalty incident?
I must admit though, Rooney does get away with quite a lot of dissents/decents.

By: RVP11

RVP11 — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:12 +0000

Andrei,
How the fuck can you call scholes a ‘hard man’? he is well known for being a shit tackler.
Terry and Lampard are also pricks for talking to referees.
Henry was not known for diving, if he did dive it as not nearly as much as gerrard does.

Ahmed Bilal,
Well done, Gerrard is a diver.

By: Raed

Raed — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:40:19 +0000

hmmm… the sole reason why Arsenal is getting dragged into this is because they have no English players. Seriosuly though how many red cards did Arsenal players receive through out the campaign??? 3? 1 vs Everton, 1 vs ManU in FA Cup & 1 vs Bolton.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:17:12 +0000

Bayern, perhaps you are not familiar with the shoulder, a part of the body attached to the arm, which is what was actually used by Ferdinand. The referee was extremely harsh in not giving Scholes a penalty for the clear foul by Bramble, but I suppose Wigan is a big club too. I am pleased to see you find Rooney guilty of being decent, or wait was that meant to be dissent?

By: Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:50:43 +0000

Was the player who kicked Nani English? I agree that there are some English players who do dive, but in all honesty Gerrard is not one of them… but that is another argument for another time.

Also I think Rooney had 8 yellow cards this season which would make him one of the least disciplined players in the league and most of those bookings were given for dissent.

Anyways, I am not talking about particular incidents here, just the general feeling that I get which is that English players are a whole lot more disciplined than most of the foreign ones. The criteria which I used are diving (most divers are and have been foreigners) and headbutting which is a two way street, but English players still seem to do it a lot less than non-English ones.

Oh well, it is just a feeling that I have, it might be wrong but I do not think that there is any way to objectivley measure that so right now opinion is all that counts.

By the way, it was a good article with good arguments.