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FA Protecting Referees? Nonsense

The FA will not re-referee matches in an attempt to protect referees and yet their decisions undermine their officials and draw attention to bad decisions. It makes no sense.

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Synergy says...

When I first saw it in real time, I thought the player who dived in before the ball struck Fellaini hand balled it as he had his hands raised when he dived in. Also the position of the free kick was at or about where he was.

Off course the replays an slow motion replays show that his hands didn't make contact with it and it was a clear handball by Fellaini and hence a penalty.

In a way it was the balancing decision for the wrongly disallowed everton goal so in this game it all balanced out in the end.

Posted 11:44am 21st March 2013

s.griffin says...

The FA do not want to undermine the referees by re-refereeing their decisions, which is fair in my opinion. But what message do the FA think they are sending out when they tell us that the assistant referee saw that tackle and deemed it not necessary to bring it to the referee's attention? What does that tell us about the assistant referee's competence? Forget us, the fans, what does that tell the players regarding that referee's competence? Will the players respect that referee again? Also, what actions have been taken against that assistant referee, as a punishment for his ridiculous amount of incompetence? Are we going to see him running on the touchline with that flag in his hand during the next gameweek? High time the referees take responsibility for their actions.

Posted 5:58am 21st March 2013

nathaus (Fulham) says...

If nothing more, then perhaps this whole furore will encourage the FA to look at this process for next season. I understand why they think they shouldn't change procedure half way through the season (more than halfway actually), as there were probably similar incidents earlier in the season and I've always thought it's better to be consistently wrong rather than just inconsistent. At least everyone knows the 'rules' and the implementation in this case. Still, how they came up with this procedure in the first place is beyond me.

Posted 4:51am 21st March 2013

colinhunt says...

i think for the reasons you stated Mark Bunn was harshly sent off, on the replay it seems his hands are not away from his body but in fact tucked onto his chest,the ball hits his elbow, it's not deliberate and it was from a very close distance.

Posted 1:57am 21st March 2013

bernsteinforpm (Manchester City) says...

Rob I hope you don't mind me linking a couple of your sentences, but a few people have said that the Fellani handball was given as a freekick to avoid having to also give Fellani a second yellow card. To me this is nonsensical as I don't see why it would have been a bookable offence inside or outside the box and I assume, from this article, you'd agree. Anyway, as you say other breaks went our way in the same game so we can't really complain about being outplayed at Goodison again.

Posted 10:24pm 20th March 2013

nidge (Manchester United) says...

So does over-turning red cards upon appeal from the club not count as re-refereeing? (Is that a word??) It's no different! I think most people accept that referees are not perfect and that decisions made in real time might not be accurate. Even if the referee felt undermined, so what- that is surely the lesser of two evils; the other being not punishing "tackles" that could end someone's career. The FA need to sort their priorities out.

Posted 6:17pm 20th March 2013

shagwa (Chelsea) says...

How much of the incident does the assistant have to see for it to be unreviewable? If he sees McManaman go sliding in and get the ball and doesn't see the studs to the knee that follow, is that considered to be the officials "seeing the incident"? Had never before thought of the incongruity between overturning incorrect suspensions and not suspending players deserving of one.

Posted 4:02pm 20th March 2013

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