Articles tagged with "referee"
Robins can’t overcome Robins – Barnsley 2-3 Bristol City
By Oli | October 25th, 2009[caption id="attachment_43" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="You don\'t know what your doing!"][/caption] People talk about issues in football a lot, and when they come up in a big ...
Barnsley 0-0 Swansea
By Oli | September 20th, 2009And so, a clash between two of the few Offside Championship blogs that still get posted on occasionaly, and believe me, it lived up to ...
Stumble and Fall: What punishment should Eduardo get?
By Rob | August 29th, 2009First off, hello. I'm Rob and I'll be here to enjoy the weekend with you. You might know me from the ...
Offside Rewind: You Raise Me Up
By chris | August 8th, 2009Real top the summer spending off at a measly quarter billion euros. Chelsea's website is the bestest in the biz. There's a chick fight in China. While a ...
The Chinese Tom Henning Øvrebø (That's Ballack's Buddy From Chelsea v Barca)
By chris | July 28th, 2009Just yesterday Richard Scudamore, head of the Prem, sat himself in front of a bevy of reporters, not at all influenced by the fact that ...
Daily Dose: July 6th, 2009
By Daryl | July 6th, 2009Something to read while you get a welcome from 80,000 Madridistas... 10 year old CR9's registration card (Off the Post) 10 ways Becks can make America love ...
MLS > UEFA Champions League (in Referee Reviews at Least)
By Daryl | May 7th, 2009My favourite thing about Major League Soccer is that they do things differently. Some of it is frustrating (no promotion/relegation, trades instead of transfers, the ...
Mad Jens: Certified Accessory Thief.
By chris | February 23rd, 2009Oh yes he has. Mad Jens has struck once again. In the same week, no less. In Saturday's big fixture between Stuttgart and Hoffenheim - a ...
Photo: Jean Claude van Damme Referees In Spain
By chris | January 6th, 2009GolTV is on in the background and the La Liga recap is running. The weekend's fixture between Recreativo and Numancia comes on and, during one ...
Refs Get Some Egyptian Brotherly Love
By chris | December 29th, 2008You're got twin brothers. One's the coach for Egyptian club El-Masry, the other is the assistant. First brother is Hossam Hassan, Egyptian national team legend. ...
New Move: German Ref Produces the Simultaneous Double Yellow
By Daryl | November 25th, 2008This is from Mainz vs St. Pauli in the 2. Bundesliga, and the awesome official flashing two simultaneous yellows is Thomas Metzen. The word awesome ...
English Refereeing Sucks in Non-League Too
By Daryl | October 17th, 2008Is it just me, or is the reputation of English refereeing at an all time low? There've been far too many high profile mistakes and ...
Should John Terry be appealing?
By Rob | September 15th, 2008One of the biggest talking points of the weekend has been John Terry's attempted Rugby tackle against Manchester City on Saturday. The defender saw red ...
Daily Dose: 09.04.08
By chris | September 4th, 2008Stuff to read while you get an elephant addicted to heroin.... A ref banned for being garbage to ref this weekend's Scotland-Macedonia qualifier. (Guardian) How not to ...
Japanese Footballer Still Fighting "Garlic Ban"
By Daryl | May 2nd, 2008Japan is arguably the wackiest corner of the football world right now. Don't believe me? Did you not read about the J-League underwear thief? And if ...
Genclerbirligi 0-1 Galatasaray, Rejoice CimBom, the dragon has been slain!!!!!!!
By Musab | April 7th, 2008So there I was hanging out with my friend on a fine New York Saturday morning when I recieved a phone call on my cell ...
Is Cashley Really Sorry?
By Jack | March 20th, 2008Ashley Cole apologized today for his absurd behavior following an even more absurd tackle on Tottenham defender Alan Hutton during yesterday's 4-4 draw with Spurs at ...
The Return of the Naked Ref
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008Remember Ana Paula de Oliveira? Course you do. She was the hot Brazilian assistant ref who did the naked arty pictures for Playboy last year. ...
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League This Weekend
By Daryl | February 11th, 20081. Standards have dropped There's been a lot of praise heaped on Man City fans for respecting the minute's silence before the Manchester derby, in memory ...
Thai Refereee Takes a Beating From Players
By Daryl | February 8th, 2008Rob Styles may have felt hard done by when the Premier League dropped him for refereeing the August 2007 Liverpool vs Chelsea match like a ...
Every Referee Needs a Trusty Firearm
By Daryl | December 26th, 2007You may have noticed a steady decline in respect for referees in recent years. Remember Roy Keane leading his Man Utd teammates on an Andy ...
Sin-bins. Good idea?
By Dan Clough | November 18th, 2007Done another article for Soccerlens. Here it is: Blackburn Rovers chairman John Williams has called for sin-bins to be introduced in football. But could this actually work? His ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.28)
By Sam | September 28th, 2007+ Djibril Cissé charged for attempted murder? Maybe! Besiktas' Brazilian midfielder Ricardinho has recently announced he plans to sue Marseille's international striker for the tackle ...
The French League Justice Heroes are at it Again
By Sam | August 7th, 2007Yesterday, the Ligue de Football Professionel and Direction Nationale de l'Arbitrage came together to produce nine suggestions to "help out" the flow of the game ...
German FA appoints first Woman to referee Bundesliga Matches
By Jan | June 18th, 2007Her name is Bibiana Steinhaus, 28 years old and a self-proclaimed failed left-back which helped with the decision to pursue a refereeing career. She hasn't ...
It's that damn referee: Two videos that show that the man with the whistle is not always right (believe it or not)
By Sam | April 4th, 2007In the light of Kaka's ho-hum penalty and general banter about diving this and argument that, I'm providing videos from two of the most talked-about ...
Champions League: Bayern Already Bitching About the Referee
By Martha | April 3rd, 2007Well, this is a new one: Bayern Munich are engaging in some preemptive bellyaching about the referee ahead of today's match in Milan, just in ...
An Absolutely Shocking Referee
By Bob | December 13th, 2006Who knew that watching someone get shocked could be so much fun? Spotted on 4thegame.
Can a Referee Yellow Card Himself?
By Bob | December 5th, 2006We've all seen players flop to the ground with the hope that they will draw a penalty against their opponent. Do you suppose the ...
Why a Culture of Corruption is Handy: No Loss is Really Deserved
By Martha | November 28th, 2006Though the manager and players have been smart enough to keep their mouths shut, Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini is mad as hell about the officiating ...
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