Another abysmal referee

[fulwoodshrimp]

I am afraid yesterday we witnessed another truly abysmal referee in Scott Simpson. Not only was he very inconsistent but he was heavily biased in his decision making favouring Barrow time and time again. He reminded me of Thomas Parsons in his attempts to influence the result of the game. Football is being betrayed by the employment of officials like Simpson and Parsons. I know its hard to recruit officials but surely we can do better that employ such incompetent referees. Not much recruitment of female referees seems to be happening but from the handful I have seen they are much more competent than many of the current bunch. Standards will not improve if poor officials continue to spoil games and influence results. It's time to fire them.

[Andy D]

It must be tempting for Referee's, with match betting easier than ever , with how many red, yellow, cards, corners, penalties etc are given.

All you need is a partner in crime who as an online betting account and aslong as you dont get to greedy.

I'm sure it goes on, especially at out level, it won't be as on top.

[thedoc]

Referee Simson lived up to the family name - Doh! - with another abysmal performance yesterday. But who'd be a ref? Most players are coached to get in their faces; feign injury and indulge in other Dark Arts by cynical managers who want to win at any price. We've seen in several of our games this season a new trick of the trade in goalkeepers going down off the ball and pretending to be seriously hurt just to stop play and disrupt our momentum in matches where we were getting on top. How do you police this? I think the answer is to send off the goalkeeper if he plays on with no obvious sign of injury and dismiss his Manager into the bargain. But how many refs have the guts to do this, particularly in front of a baying home crowd? Your suggestion of more female refs is an interesting one - could they possibly be worse? I think not...

[Keith]

Crewe game, earlier in the season:

Even Sky Sports' retired Premier League ref, Chris Foy agreed that it was wrong to give the penalty.

Incident: Possible penalty, holding - Crewe Alexandra

Decision: Penalty awarded, holding - Crewe Alexandra

Foy says: "After awarding this penalty to Crewe Alexandra, the referee clearly communicates to the players that it was given for a holding offence by Morecambe no. 24 on the Crewe no. 5.

"With the benefit of viewing the replay, we can see there is contact between the players, however the action of holding is neither sustained nor impactful. It therefore falls below the threshold for penalising, as it was not clearly impactful, particularly as Crew no. 5 is still able to get to the ball and has a clear shot at goal.

"The correct decision in this case would have been to allow play to continue with a Morecambe throw-in from the far corner."

https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... -decisions

Simpson really has it in for us. That's four points his refereeing has cost us this season. A decent ref in those two games, we're only two points from safety. The sending off was 'soft' but 'perhaps' the right decision, but how was pulling Songo'o over in the 6 yard area allowed on the lead up to their first goal? He gave every 50:50 to Barrow. In fact, he gave every 60:40 decision to them too.

[Billy bodger]

It must be tempting for Referee's, with match betting easier than ever , with how many red, yellow, cards, corners, penalties etc are given.

All you need is a partner in crime who as an online betting account and aslong as you dont get to greedy.

I'm sure it goes on, especially at out level, it won't be as on top.

Just betting on yellow/red cards or penalties on a match in League two should raise a red flag, if not just put right band, though to be fair that should be throughout football.

[Billy bodger]

Referee Simson lived up to the family name - Doh! - with another abysmal performance yesterday. But who'd be a ref? Most players are coached to get in their faces; feign injury and indulge in other Dark Arts by cynical managers who want to win at any price. We've seen in several of our games this season a new trick of the trade in goalkeepers going down off the ball and pretending to be seriously hurt just to stop play and disrupt our momentum in matches where we were getting on top. How do you police this? I think the answer is to send off the goalkeeper if he plays on with no obvious sign of injury and dismiss his Manager into the bargain. But how many refs have the guts to do this, particularly in front of a baying home crowd? Your suggestion of more female refs is an interesting one - could they possibly be worse? I think not...

Some of the female lines person we have had seem to always do a decent job, the yelling at the ref may well stop a lot because they are female, but it only happens to male refs because they let it. Managers think it’s perfectly alright for the players to treat an official like that because they are strong willed men!! (Macho).

Whats wrong with going into the dressing room, you meet the managers, spell it out,YOU HAVE PICKED THE WRONG REF TO DO ANY OF THAT TO, THE LAWS ARE CLEAR, GET YOU’RE PLAYERS TO CUT IT OUT. They have to respect the refs badge.

Any way isn’t it only the captain that can discuss a decision? In the end the ref is in charge and because we have no VAR the refs decision is final.

I don’t want to see anything like sin binning but if it is to be cut out, let the FA try it out, oh silly me that won’t happen.

Refs will get decisions wrong, just like a missed or bad tackle, a bad pass, a missed chance, a goal that was offside, etc etc.

I agree the standard of officials are generally mediocre to rubbish.

[Redalert1970]

The ref didn't cost us the game yesterday even though he was poor

He didn't make the blunder for their 2nd goal and also didn't miss to put us 3 up

[Keith]

The ref didn't cost us the game yesterday even though he was poor

He didn't make the blunder for their 2nd goal and also didn't miss to put us 3 up

He gave them their first goal. Twice this season, he's got decisions wrong re Songo'o and cost us points.