I thought a thread about Refs performances was in order.

We've all seen a shocking performance over the weekend & we've seen some decent perfomances as well this season, so this could be a place to vent or praise.

I doubt we'll ever see something worse than Ovrebo, as hard as Clattenburg might have tried in that United game under Robbie.

Chris Foy.... Enough said really.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29813870

 

Clattenburg has been dropped by the FA for making a phone call to known con artist Neil Warnock. He also seems to have been charged for leaving the ground on his own to see an Ed Sheeran gig, although I'm not entirely sure if the charge is for not leaving the ground with the other officials or for liking wussy music...

Clattenburg acting too big for his boots? Surely not! 

 

Never known a ref to so many controversies surrounding him.

 

He's not even very good. 

Clattenburg acting too big for his boots? Surely not! 

 

Never known a ref to so many controversies surrounding him.

 

He's not even very good.

I met his wife recently, she was completely up herself as well!

As for referees in general it gets said every season but what we fans really want to see is more consistency with regards to decisions being made. 

 

Shawcross is penalised for holding onto a player during a set piece then just a week later you see two Chelsea players pulled to the floor by their necks at the same time and nothing given. 

 

Where's the consistency? 

 

Also retrospective punishments seem to only be dished out if enough media anger is stirred up. 

 

Aguero got away with a pretty nasty challenge at the end of the first half against West Ham but because City eventually lost, nothing is made of it.

 

If the FA and refs were consistent and neutral we'd be seeing challenges like that getting retrospective punishments. 

Nothing was made of his two footed lunge on David Luiz 2 years ago either, right? Aguero seems to be getting away with murder.

Nothing was made of his two footed lunge on David Luiz 2 years ago either, right? Aguero seems to be getting away with murder.

 

But he said sorry on twitter, so all is forgiven.

Shawcross is penalised for holding onto a player during a set piece then just a week later you see two Chelsea players pulled to the floor by their necks at the same time and nothing given. 

 

This. This is what pisses me off the most. The WWE that goes on during corners. It's disgraceful. And I'm not just saying this because it was two of our players- it would be outrageous if anyone was headlocked and then wrestled to the ground in such a manner.

 

They really need to deal with this properly and dish out the appropriate punishments.

In the cases of obvious failure by the ref, they should get suspended for a few games!

I also think that in the case of Clattenburg, he should now be sacked!

He's had too many chances.

Yes, it is the lack of consistency that really annoys fans.

 

Probably worth including linesmen and women or to give them their modern title, assistant refs. I wonder what they do sometimes. Often they don't help the refs - the refs can't see everything. And how many times have we seen an assistant ref wait for the ref before raising a flag even when they are only a few yards away from an incident.

 

And as for those numpties that stand behind the goals during European matches. What a joke. You only have to look at last week's game between Schalke and Sporting where the clown behind the line gave a penalty for handball when it was obvious that the ball hit the defender's head.

 

Ovrebo's performance was a disgrace. The only game I've been at where Ballack completely lost it. And I still haven't forgiven Ellery for the second penalty in the 1994 FA Cup final. Rant over.

There are referee's out there who like the camera time, why am i not surprised that these ref's put in the worst performances ? Dowd is a perfect example of this.

Don't think its possible to top Ovrebo, my dad's convinced it was a FIFA/UEFA conspiracy just because no-one can be that bad without trying.

Players that wrestle others to the floor in the penalty area should be penalised and sent off for deliberate fowl play and denying a goal scoring opportunity.

If only.

Who can forget David Ellaray in the 1994 FA Cup Final? He later admitted that he "regrets" awarding the second penalty, the one that knocked the stuffing out of the side and effectively killed the game.

 

However, it wasn't Chelsea fans who issued death threats against Ellaray, but Man U fans, albeit several years later.

 

'I had sent off Roy Keane for the third time. Then the death threats began. The police fitted a panic alarm at my house'

 

That was in 1999, when the Internet was still comparatively speaking in its infancy. These death threats were sent to Elleray in person. Liverpool fans - to give just one example - would routinely issue threats to a certain admin of another Chelsea site over the phone, to himself and to his family, simply because he was naiive enough to make his number available online. And yet it's Chelsea fans who have the rep for issuing death threats, All because of a single silly schoolgirl who wrote on a forum somewhere that she wanted to kill Anders Frisk. .

Frisk was perhaps the worst example of the "Look at me" type referee. A preening incompetent drama queen, his decision to retire following the purported "death threats" cemented both his place in the history books and the reputation of Chelsea fans based on the incident.

 

Anders Frisk: Famous for running scared from a mouthy little schoolkid.

Foy is the worst ref in our league. I can not understand how he hasnt been sacked. Not just against us but when he has been the ref in other games he is just shocking. I always dread the game when he is the ref. I know we will be screwed over some how.

Don't think its possible to top Ovrebo, my dad's convinced it was a FIFA/UEFA conspiracy just because no-one can be that bad without trying.

 

I go back and re-watch the penalty shouts for that game from time to time.

 

The game has been and gone now and nothing can obviously change what happened but I still get angry re-watching it.

 

I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means but something about that game just isn't right... Can a referee given the responsibility of officiating such a high profile game really be that inept? Something was amiss that's for sure. 

Don't think its possible to top Ovrebo, my dad's convinced it was a FIFA/UEFA conspiracy just because no-one can be that bad without trying.

 

 

Ovrebo: My errors cost Chelsea in 2009

http://www.espnfc.com/story/1050513/tom-henning-ovrebo-my-refereeing-errors-cost-chelsea-in-2009

 

Tom Henning Ovrebo, the referee of the controversial Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Barcelona in 2009, has admitted that he made mistakes in the game that denied the Premier League side a place in the final.

"Everyone who knows the laws of the game knows I should have done things differently, but that's the life of a referee. In a strange way, I was actually satisfied with the way we all managed to keep calm in a tense situation."

He added: "On the pitch I did my best. I shouldn't have to apologise as mistakes are part of the game."

I actually think that Ovrebo had a point, in so far as he was massively out of his depth, and was nowhere near qualifed or experienced enough to take charge of a game of such magnitude. I also believe that he did his best, but his best was woefully inadequate, and predictably so, the equivalent of giving a non-league referee the FA Cup Final. It just wouldn't happen.

 

The blame therefore ultimately lies with Uefa for appointing Ovrebo in the first place.

I kind of knew this would turn into an Ovrebo bashing thread, but my aim was to discuss refs perfomances this season, not exclusively involving Chelsea.

If Clattenburg's ban is for having an appalling taste in music then fair do's.

 

With regards to phoning Warnock, didn't Fergie say in his book that Dowd did that to him in the past...?

Who can forget David Ellaray in the 1994 FA Cup Final? He later admitted that he "regrets" awarding the second penalty, the one that knocked the stuffing out of the side and effectively killed the game.

 

However, it wasn't Chelsea fans who issued death threats against Ellaray, but Man U fans, albeit several years later.

 

'I had sent off Roy Keane for the third time. Then the death threats began. The police fitted a panic alarm at my house'

 

That was in 1999, when the Internet was still comparatively speaking in its infancy. These death threats were sent to Elleray in person. Liverpool fans - to give just one example - would routinely issue threats to a certain admin of another Chelsea site over the phone, to himself and to his family, simply because he was naiive enough to make his number available online. And yet it's Chelsea fans who have the rep for issuing death threats, All because of a single silly schoolgirl who wrote on a forum somewhere that she wanted to kill Anders Frisk. .

Frisk was perhaps the worst example of the "Look at me" type referee. A preening incompetent drama queen, his decision to retire following the purported "death threats" cemented both his place in the history books and the reputation of Chelsea fans based on the incident.

 

Anders Frisk: Famous for running scared from a mouthy little schoolkid.

 

I suspect it may have been the taxman Frisk ran from, what with his €400 fake tans and hairdos. The schoolkid ended up being a smokescreen. She may also have received quite a lot of grief from the Barca mafia.

 

If Clattenburg's ban is for having an appalling taste in music then fair do's.

 

With regards to phoning Warnock, didn't Fergie say in his book that Dowd did that to him in the past...?

 

Knowing Dowd, he probably tried to ring Domino's/Golden Sun Takeaway/The Delhi Belly Curry House and got the wrong number.

Edited October 29, 201411 yr by Drogba11CFC

Mangala has just wrestled Dunnett Newcastle's centre half to the ground, nothing giving, so much for this campaign to stop this offence.

Edited October 29, 201411 yr by mbh