ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3
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Saint Domingo
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The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
Players, pundits and fans complain bitterly that referees are getting worse each season – but is that fair?www.theguardian.com
'Among the 19 referees who work predominantly in the Premier League, the best performers are appointed most often, and they are the ones who get the most sought-after matches, those between the top-six clubs, which officials call “golden games”. If, as senior PGMOL figures like to say, the Premier League officials are the 21st team in the division, then its star players are Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver, who are appointed to most of the big matches. “Just like Liverpool will always play [Virgil] van Dijk in a big game, we’ll appoint our big hitters,” Martin Atkinson, a former referee who now works as a coach for PGMOL, told me.'
Tells you all you need to know that.
It’s a sad state of affairs when you’re hoping that Howard Webb taking charge might mean the referees go back to their bias in favour of United rather than the recent bias towards Liverpool just because it’s slightly more palatable.
If Oliver and Taylor are the A team then we really are in trouble because they’re both a disgrace.
glory_daze
Player Valuation: £5m
Don't worry they will just get Mbappe or Haaland instead, I mean who can resist the lure of the This is Anfield sign or all those red scarves getting waved ?
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Mount is nothing like Bellingham either, don’t know who they think they’re fooling by acting like he’s an alternative.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The article points out that Marriner had all the matchday officails ready to watch for an Everton player simulating during the match.
That's how completely relaxed they are about their inherent bias. There's no way an example about a Liverpool or United player would have been made or gone to print.
PGMOL are as corrupt as they come.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
It's TalkSport, it doesn't have to make sense. They just shout out things VERY LOUDLY!
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £60m
Mount is to replace Thiago who seems to in/out all the time due to fitness, I reckon Mount would do well there tbh.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
He’s even less like Thiago than he is like Bellingham.
YoboCopter
Player Valuation: £50m
They’ll be in their box rooms cryin to their ma’s about this!
But they can hold their heads high, as they’ve never spent big money on any players.
Golden games? More like golden showers!The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
Players, pundits and fans complain bitterly that referees are getting worse each season – but is that fair?
'Among the 19 referees who work predominantly in the Premier League, the best performers are appointed most often, and they are the ones who get the most sought-after matches, those between the top-six clubs, which officials call “golden games”. If, as senior PGMOL figures like to say, the Premier League officials are the 21st team in the division, then its star players are Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver, who are appointed to most of the big matches. “Just like Liverpool will always play [Virgil] van Dijk in a big game, we’ll appoint our big hitters,” Martin Atkinson, a former referee who now works as a coach for PGMOL, told me.'
Tells you all you need to know that.
Just shows them up for the corrupt egotistical diva’s that they are.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
So we know that when we get a ref and his officials they've already got the wrong attitiude. Basically they dont want to be there if there's no 'top 6' teams playing.
The telling thing for me though is that these people dont even feel the need to be guarded in their favouritism.
I believe the first letter in PGMOL stands for 'professional'. That means you approach all tasks with the very same attitude across the board - you dont perform more when you want to, which is what 'golden games' strongly implies.
That organisation is as bent as a nine bob note.
That's not what 'Professional' means - it's their main, paid occupation, and/or the organisation exists which requires training or qualifications to join.
Of course, that should also imply consistency and impartiality, but that's not the meaning of the word.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
That's a narrow and functional definition of what professional means.
But that fella who looks like the illigitimate offspring of Uncle Fester and Mrs Potato Head told me it was more nailed on than JC.
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