Friday, 20 April 2012

RED CARD for REFEREES

When football games change due to the bad calls REFEREES make

This was the case in the 2012 FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Tottenham when referee Martin Atkinson's decision to allow Chelsea's second goal which arguably changed the fate of the game. Martin's decision to allow the goal was declared shocking to fans around the world when he allowed Matta's goal, but what makes it worst is that the position Martin was in he failed to call. http://footytu.be/v2g43

  • John Terry foul on two people  (when he took out keeper Friedel and defender Assou-Eketto)
  • Matta's goal that never crossed the line
  • Chelsea keeper Peter Cech taking out Emmanuel Adebayor
These are just to name a few errors Martin made. There are many issues following this game like what are the extra empires there for if they are not to be used regarding the ball that never crossed the line, the touch line ref that never lifted his flag when Terry took out the two Spurs players and one of the key indications not giving Peter Cech a red card after he clearly took Adebayor out.

FIFA's Laws of the Game, Law 12, Article 78 If a player denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player's goal by an offense punishable by free kick (direct or in direct) or penalty kick and this player must be given Red card. This is clearly not what the ref did.

Take a dive: Adebayor sent flying after keeper Peter Cech tackled him
photo by:Clive Rose/Getty Images
The season of 2011/2012 season has seen many bad calls from refs and these calls have changed the outcome of many games. Should Martin be indicted. Many fans would say yes. The issue is that Refs have become invincible and make bad decisions on a constant basis and Fifa and Co do nothing about it. These institutions need to step in make and example of these refs, the FA board needs to step in on these refs because the Premier League has become the laughing stock due to the bad refs that make these calls.

The image these refs sent out is bad for the FA and the Premier League.There needs to be message sent that if you make bad calls you will be punished after all the Image of the Premier League and the FA is at stake.

From a PR point of View the FA needs to handle this more effectively because issues like this you cannot ignore because it will simply not go away. One needs to approach this head on.


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4 comments:

  1. Unknown9 May 2012 at 10:36

    I must say i do agree with you to a point. but this is a real football fan discussion when it comes to how Referees call a game. If the call goes in your teams favour then it is all good, but if the cal goes against your team then the ref cost you the game and he should be fired or cited. The fact is that in the game of Football througout your whole season you will have certain calls made against you and certain calls made for you thats just how it is so fans need to deal with it. But i do agree with you that most of the calls made that night with the Chelsea Totteham game bad but like all the other fouls its a win or lose deal with it

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  2. Shane'O9 May 2012 at 11:01

    Im not going to disagree with you in football you win some calls and lose some calls but all im stating is that really bad decision made by refs continuously needs to have something done about. People are just humans i understand that but when he continues to make bad calls and other do the same then something needs to happen because this just brings down the class of the BPL

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  3. Unknown18 August 2012 at 20:22

    why not review the video if necessary to check if the decision is correct?



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  4. Shane'O26 August 2012 at 10:50

    Debra it think that is a brilliant option that Football and Soccer Bodies alike should consider, a lot like the TMO in Cricket and in Rugby. However we have learned about this new Goal line technology but thats it we only hear of it. The thing is I think FIFA and co do not wanna move into that direction as to many calls will be made and thus take away the free flowing of the beautiful game

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