Articles tagged with "referees"
Phil Neville: The Referees favor the Big Clubs
By Bob | October 22nd, 2007One of the lessons we learned from the Premiership this weekend is that it was only the second time this season that all of the ...
FIFA to test out Goalmouth Referees at Club World Cup
By Bob | October 9th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_3Zx12zROw[/youtube] Good news for referees hanging out on the unemployment line and for those of you who enjoy watching videos of referees getting clocked by balls ...
'He's clocked him one in the jewels'
By Bob | October 8th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=swOokQZKbM8[/youtube] I was going to do a little write up of the incident above in which Joel Griffiths of the Australian club Newcastle Jets takes his ...
The Referee was clearly offside
By Bob | October 3rd, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw-RYFbcT4[/youtube] We've all seen games when the referee's decisions have affected the outcome, but rare is the time when the referee's goal scoring prowess is the ...
Go to your room and apologize for your refereeing errors
By Bob | August 20th, 2007The 2007-08 English Premier League season still has that new car smell and already there is an all too familiar situation where a referee is ...
Rule Change Proposal: Injure a player and spend time on the touchline
By Bob | August 14th, 2007It often seems like an inordinate amount of time is spent discussion how the rules of soccer could be changed, while in reality the sport ...
Ref Payments & An Italian Club. Like An Ordinary Sunday in Serie A.
By JT | July 28th, 2007Tomorrow’s friendly with fallen Serie A giant Parma was nearly called off over payments (or lack thereof) to referees. Apparently there is a bit ...
Brazilian Referee to Pose in Playboy
By Bob | June 19th, 2007It has been quite the week for gender equity in the profession of soccer referees. The German football association announced that a 28-year-old female ...
Referees Need Hugs Too
By Daryl | June 16th, 2007Who'd want to be a referee, eh? This poor fella in black was innocently refereeing a game in Northern Ireland between Bangor and Lisburn Distillery ...
Your Weekly Referees being Attacked Round-up
By Bob | June 12th, 2007You might think the life of a referee is pretty darned glamorous. You get to spend 90 minutes a game running in circles, while ...
The Undermining of the Race in Spain
By Bob | May 22nd, 2007With Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and Valencia all within a mere four points of one another at the top of the table, Spain's La Liga ...
FIFA to try out Four Linesmen System
By Bob | May 2nd, 2007With the exception of a certain octogenarian, we all know that is tough out there for referees. The game is played at such a ...
82-year-old Fan Referees Football Match
By Bob | April 25th, 2007I know that when I am 82 years old and I encounter a blogger who needs help punching out a post about David Beckham's penis ...
A Yellow Card for a Peck, a Red Card for a Making Out
By Bob | April 24th, 2007Referees are used to taking abuse from players and fans, but apparently they aren't accustomed to receiving some lovin'. In Brazil this past weekend ...
Friday News Roundup: Will It Ever End in Catania?
By Martha | April 20th, 2007•After the latest overturning of Catania's stadium ban caused quite understandable controversy (apart from inevitable FIGC issues, the court that made the decision apparently doesn't ...
A Wheelchair-bound Referee is Wheeling the Lines
By Bob | April 12th, 2007One of my favorite writers passed away yesterday. Kurt Vonnegut was 84. While reading some of the obituaries that have been written about ...
Dutch Referee Eric Braamhaar Celebrates a Goal
By Bob | March 23rd, 2007The goal in the video above seems simple enough. There is nothing spectacular about it. It was Ajax's fifth goal in a 5-1 ...
They got everything, but they didn't take his Referee Jersey
By Bob | March 8th, 2007You can't blame Brazilian referee Marcelo de Lima for being a bit distracted during Wednesday night's match between Flamengo and Madureira. You also can't ...
I'm David Beckham and I did not approve this Political Ad
By Bob | February 22nd, 2007Everyone is looking to capitalize as Brand Beckham continues its inevitable build up until that sacred moment when the Golden One steps foot on American ...
Platini: The More Referees the Merrier
By Bob | February 14th, 2007Good news for all of the students who skip their homework to spend all day reading The Offside. We are here to tell you ...
Keepers Set. Linesmen Ready. Shi*T, Where's the Ball?
By Bob | February 9th, 2007Some thoughts that go through the mind of a referee as he gets ready to kick off a football match: Are both teams ready? ...
It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Super Ref!
By Martha | January 17th, 2007Say goodbye, friends, to errors in Serie A -- Super Refs are coming! The problems in the past, you see were caused not by corruption, ...
Pierluigi Collina Still Looks Like an Alien
By Bob | December 28th, 2006Admit it. Even with the imitators out there you've missed this face. Retired referee turned financial adviser Pierluigi Collina is making a football ...
Daily Dose 12.01
By Bob | December 1st, 2006Some stories to read while you get beat at bowling by a blind 94-year-old.... Keep an eye out for the captain, Charles Charlie Charles (Ramblings of ...
Luton Town boss Mike Newell is a card carrying sexist
By Bob | November 13th, 2006We learned this weekend that Luton Town manager Mike Newell longs for the simple days when gender roles were more clearly defined and blown calls ...
Today's Question: Is Graham Poll F***ing Shite or a F***ing Cheat?
By Bob | November 9th, 2006There are very few things in this world that can ruin my football watching experience. A fridge devoid of beer, a raging case of ...
Milan Can't Win Because the Refs are Mean, Or: Welcome to the Real World, Suckers
By Martha | November 6th, 2006The Italian press (as well as the team's homepage) today is full of quotes from the Milan camp about the injustice that has been visited ...
It's Tough out there for Referees in Germany
By Bob | October 31st, 2006There have been a lot of discouraging headlines coming out of Germany the past few days regarding the increase in fan violence that is taking ...
Some Smart People have confirmed what you already knew about Premiership Referees
By Bob | October 30th, 2006I have to give those in academia a lot of credit. They are always finding ways to watch football in the "name of science." The ...
Pulling the linesman's pants down probably won't help with those blown offside calls
By Bob | October 30th, 2006While I'd like to think that this video gets cut off too soon and the referees come up into the stands and shove their flags ...
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