Is There Corruption By Match Officials In The Premier League

[Niall_Quinn]

You have to try to filter out the natural and commendable bias of the fans to spot cheating. I say cheating because I think some people believe money has to change hands before you can call it corruption. That ref's blatant cheating in the Newcastle/ City match probably had every fan in the country scratching their head. If that really was a mistake then that ref has to be banned forever. Dowd in the 4-4 with Newcastle, again blatant cheating. The ref in the chav/ Barcelona match, blatant cheating. RvP being sent off against Barcelona, blatant cheating. That's off the top of my head, there will be countless other examples. These weren't just mistakes - that's like me shooting somebody in the face and claiming incompetence with firearms. What was I doing with the gun in the first place and why are these referees even allowed on the pitch? Can't we find any competent people to do the job? Are we even looking or are the turds we have convenient? I think they are. Best place of all to hide corruption is in a sea of incompetence. You see the same thing with politicians.

[Özim]

I was being sarcastic.

The reason fans don't call them corrupt is because mistakes are few and far between. There are some yes, but they don't happen with the frequent regularity that they do in football.

There's also only so much they can get wrong in sports where technology is used to its full extent.

There is fuck all in football, and so we just have to trust in shit like 'the refs interpretation' and 'judgement'.

You know, the same sort of amateur crap that used to happen in playground football.

That's not necessarily true either, I've seen matches where there's been 3 clear errors in a game, there's errors as well as technology is only used to add to the drama, like I said 3 challenges a set per player.

Errors in tennis are more clear cut, it's either in or out, in football it's not quite that simple, players fall over like they've been shot (cheat) and referees are running up and down the pitch seeing incidents from allsorts of angle, the fans are screaming for decisions, I'm sure it's not that easy, in tennis they have lots of personnel and they don't have to move so it's harder to make mistakes and they only have to watch the ball.

Like I said though in tennis technology is used to add to the spectacle not to replace the officials, it's got a limited use.

[KSE Comedy Club]

You have to try to filter out the natural and commendable bias of the fans to spot cheating. I say cheating because I think some people believe money has to change hands before you can call it corruption. That ref's blatant cheating in the Newcastle/ City match probably had every fan in the country scratching their head. If that really was a mistake then that ref has to be banned forever. Dowd in the 4-4 with Newcastle, again blatant cheating. The ref in the chav/ Barcelona match, blatant cheating. RvP being sent off against Barcelona, blatant cheating. That's off the top of my head, there will be countless other examples. These weren't just mistakes - that's like me shooting somebody in the face and claiming incompetence with firearms. What was I doing with the gun in the first place and why are these referees even allowed on the pitch? Can't we find any competent people to do the job? Are we even looking or are the turds we have convenient? I think they are. Best place of all to hide corruption is in a sea of incompetence. You see the same thing with politicians.

Absolutely, spot on.

[KSE Comedy Club]

That's not necessarily true either, I've seen matches where there's been 3 clear errors in a game, there's errors as well as technology is only used to add to the drama, like I said 3 challenges a set per player.

Errors in tennis are more clear cut, it's either in or out, in football it's not quite that simple, players fall over like they've been shot (cheat) and referees are running up and down the pitch seeing incidents from allsorts of angle, the fans are screaming for decisions, I'm sure it's not that easy, in tennis they have lots of personnel and they don't have to move so it's harder to make mistakes and they only have to watch the ball.

Like I said though in tennis technology is used to add to the spectacle not to replace the officials, it's got a limited use.

I would say it's harder to see if a small yellow ball travelling at 100 mph has landed one side of a line or not.

When a ref is in clear view of someone tripping another player in the box and not touching the ball and then waving for 'no penalty' is just ignoring the rules and cheating.

Also watching a player bang in a 30 yarder that is a clear goal in any other game on any other weekend of football, then running over to the linesman for a chat and declaring it 'offside' is cheating.

It's really time for the excuses for these so called 'professionally trained' referee's to stop.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

You have to try to filter out the natural and commendable bias of the fans to spot cheating. I say cheating because I think some people believe money has to change hands before you can call it corruption. That ref's blatant cheating in the Newcastle/ City match probably had every fan in the country scratching their head. If that really was a mistake then that ref has to be banned forever. Dowd in the 4-4 with Newcastle, again blatant cheating. The ref in the chav/ Barcelona match, blatant cheating. RvP being sent off against Barcelona, blatant cheating. That's off the top of my head, there will be countless other examples. These weren't just mistakes - that's like me shooting somebody in the face and claiming incompetence with firearms. What was I doing with the gun in the first place and why are these referees even allowed on the pitch? Can't we find any competent people to do the job? Are we even looking or are the turds we have convenient? I think they are. Best place of all to hide corruption is in a sea of incompetence. You see the same thing with politicians.

That is a top top top post.

[Globalgunner]

in other news the world famous former United referee. Howard Webb, has again been selected to ruin another world cup. No news yet on whether the die hard United apostle Phil Dowd will also carry his pot belly to Brazil

[Mr. Lahey]

http://www.declanhill.com/

[Niall_Quinn]

http://www.declanhill.com/

Interesting site, thanks.

"Here is the rub for any thinking British football fan. The response by the British Football Associations to match-fixing has been so bad that FIFA is far better. Imagine. FIFA the association almost synonymously with corruption scandals is better at fighting match-fixing than British Football Associations. Sigh. Says it all really."
http://www.declanhill.com/blog/item/...ews-and-a-sigh

[Xhaka Can’t]

I am now genuinely convinced there is no corruption in the EPL.

[footloose, the wanderer]

We all know their is corruption in FIFA and UEFA, we just dont know how far it stretches out, does it go all the way down to the refs at times?

One would be naive in the extreme to think it couldn't happen, I think it depends on the occasion on when it actually does happen