Russybcool wrote:
DippyDon wrote:
dons50 wrote:
DippyDon wrote:
Respect is earned in all aspects of life, that referee deserved none.
I don't blame Lewington one bit. If anything that red card galvanised us.
Football will never improve in that regard if we feel that actions like that are justified when the referee isn’t very good. No wonder grass roots football can’t get refs.
If I cock up that badly at my job, I get shouted at. Why should referees be exempt.
They shouldn't, but there are ways to do it. Go look at the no one likes us post and look how close Lewie was to the ref and how angry he looks. I am 99% sure that if your manager did that to you and called you every name under the sun (which I am assuming that Lewie did as it was a red) you would be off to HR to raise a grievance. Its the intent to cause the officials harm. He was dumb to do it.
As shit as he was (and he really was) the ref is only a human and IMO was within his rights. They are the law on that pitch I mean that is like getting punched in the face in front of a cop and the cop not arresting the person who punched you. If you squared up to a cop due to the "injustice" I am sure you would get arrested.
If I'm punched in the face in front of a cop and I'm the one that gets in trouble for arguing it, then you can bet that that would be taken higher up and there would be a ruling to show that while maybe not handled in the right way, I would be in the right and the policeman didn't do his job correctly.
Lewie wasn't undeservedly sent off, I don't think I've said that nor did I mean it. I just don't blame him whatsoever for it.