Are the Refs good enough in the Premier League?
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By Simon Garner
October 23 2009
After what I consider to be a fantastic performance and a great point away at Everton last weekend, I am still 100% sure that we should have won the game due to the fact that there was a foul on Kevin Doyle in the build up to the Everton equaliser........
I am still impressed with the way the team has come on this season, and personally I think that our points total doesn't show the true story of how we have played this season. What really has got my (and I assume many other Wolves fans) back up is the fact that there seems to be a worryingly high amount of inept referees in the Premiership.
I have already mentioned the Everton incident, but another one that sticks out in my mind is the blatant handball we had go against us in the Portsmouth match. How the hell both the linesman AND the referee missed the fact that a Portsmouth player handled inside the penalty area is beyond me. My late grandmother, who had glaucoma, would have seen that and given the penalty straight away. Then there was the penalty we "gave away" against Sunderland, yes Castillo came in from behind BUT he clearly got the ball and a penalty shouldn't have been given. I am not saying it would have changed the outcome of the game, but it certainly didn't help. Another incident (yet not such an issue) was the fact that Andy Keogh got booked for "diving" against Wigan, despite there being clear contact in the area from the Wigan defender.
It is not often I agree with Sir Alex Ferguson, in fact I think the guy just likes to stir up as much trouble as possible BUT he was spot on when he said that some referees are not fit enough to officiate in the top flight. In my opinion some money needs to be invested by the FA in new referees OR technology that helps them when they can't make a simple decision. Yes I know it might affect the way the game is run, but when teams continually have things go against them time after time, surely something needs to be done? Right? I mean what do we have to do to actually win a penalty this season?
I guess I am lucky that I am not a Premiership manager, otherwise there could be a fine coming my way!
Your thoughts please.
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So prehaps its just bias against the new comers
you can take the boy out of Wolverhampton, but you can't take the Wolverhampton out of the boy.
I dont think we would have got the 2nd half penalty today had it not been for the earlier decision or maybe if it was still 0-0. The ref took an eternity before awarding the penalty.
What gets me more than anything is that there are very rarely any sanctions or punishments against blatently bad decisions. A lot of decisions are borderline and difficult to spot, like the Keogh booking at Wigan - but on blatently terrible decisions like missing the Pompey deliberate handball or the failure to send Howard off at Everton call for sanctions. Atwell in particular should consider himself very very lucky to still be referreeing at Premiership level after one of the worst errors of all time.
We need to give it a better go in front of goal but these incident thus far have denied us a potential 5 precious points.
a few seasons ago, gerrard got a penalty vs sheff U. He stayed on his feet and tried to shoot. There was contact, and it was stonewall.
Because Gerrard stayed on his feet, the referee received horrendous abuse (albeit mainly from warnock)
we need to sort it out. Until players know they can stay on their feet and still win penalties, we will continue to see players diving.
on the topic i agree with Risca. more pressure on the ref's in the big clubs arenas.
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