Comments on: UEFA’s Official Nightmare http://www.gloriousfootball.com/general/uefas-official-nightmare/ Football news, videos, and analysis - because it's a beautiful game. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:15:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Steven Maloney http://www.gloriousfootball.com/general/uefas-official-nightmare/comment-page-1/#comment-4415 Steven Maloney Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:35:03 +0000 http://www.gloriousfootball.com/?p=1165#comment-4415 Mike D - thanks for your comment. I think that we are probably in agreement. My proposition for punishing comments on officials is that the should be punishable if they are slanderous. If you rip an official for a call that they actually got correct in law - suspension and fine. If you rip an official and they blew the call - no punishment for the comments. I completely agree that getting the results correct is a two-way street. Mike D – thanks for your comment. I think that we are probably in agreement. My proposition for punishing comments on officials is that the should be punishable if they are slanderous. If you rip an official for a call that they actually got correct in law – suspension and fine. If you rip an official and they blew the call – no punishment for the comments. I completely agree that getting the results correct is a two-way street.

]]> By: Mike D. http://www.gloriousfootball.com/general/uefas-official-nightmare/comment-page-1/#comment-4414 Mike D. Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:21:55 +0000 http://www.gloriousfootball.com/?p=1165#comment-4414 While I agree your points on many fronts, we disagree heavily on treatment of officials. Draconian penalties for comments made regarding the referees would be horrid for the game, as at the end of the day, it is the referee's poor judgment that is at issue in many situations. Do officials have a tough job? Assuredly so. That does not mean they are off the hook or drop to the bottom of the blame list because their job is difficult. If a striker does not perform, he is benched. If a team does not perform, a manager is fired. I have never been for governing body reactions to claims against the officials that often times are true. Coaches don't come out to the media and call a referee's performance disgraceful if it wasn't. Fines or suspensions received should only be levied if indeed the officials are found to have responded in a manner in keeping with the laws of their game. Look at college football. Bobby Petrino and Dan Mullen are reprimanded by the SEC, but then later the SEC suspends the officials? That action can't be a "reprimand/fine/suspend first, review later" sort of thing. If the officials are wrong, I'm all for the coach calling them out on it when it's the difference between winning and losing. Refs get away with everything in the name of "respect" and their supposed neutrality. While I agree your points on many fronts, we disagree heavily on treatment of officials. Draconian penalties for comments made regarding the referees would be horrid for the game, as at the end of the day, it is the referee’s poor judgment that is at issue in many situations.

Do officials have a tough job? Assuredly so. That does not mean they are off the hook or drop to the bottom of the blame list because their job is difficult. If a striker does not perform, he is benched. If a team does not perform, a manager is fired. I have never been for governing body reactions to claims against the officials that often times are true. Coaches don’t come out to the media and call a referee’s performance disgraceful if it wasn’t.

Fines or suspensions received should only be levied if indeed the officials are found to have responded in a manner in keeping with the laws of their game. Look at college football. Bobby Petrino and Dan Mullen are reprimanded by the SEC, but then later the SEC suspends the officials? That action can’t be a “reprimand/fine/suspend first, review later” sort of thing. If the officials are wrong, I’m all for the coach calling them out on it when it’s the difference between winning and losing. Refs get away with everything in the name of “respect” and their supposed neutrality.

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