TOPIC: Referee appointments

What's the FA ruling on appointing match officials to avoid any perceived bias. Anyone know ?

I don't know but I suspect that on bank holidays they look to appoint officials who don't have to travel too far. Hence Curle's comments about yesterday's ref's Somerset accent. As Kevin Johnson comes from Weston-Super-Mare it's not surprising that Curle wasn't happy with the choice of referee. Hopefully Curle will escape a fine or reprimand from the FA as he just about avoided accusing the referee of blatant bias.

If thas true they should also stop teams having to travel too far.

You get very few biased refs in league two just quite a few who are not very good.

Waltero wrote:
I know Ref's have to declare who they support so they don't get a game featuring their team or one which could affect their team.

I bet a fair few of them tell porkies on that one for exactly that reason. I know I would!

CCU wrote:

Even so, being part of the Somerset FA should be enough to make sure you're ruled out of officiating a Somerset club game at professional level

Clubs have to travel that far, why shouldn't referees?

Couldn't agree more...

CCU wrote:
Even then though, while Carlisle are the team I support, there are many many teams that I hate. Whats to stop a bitter Barnet fan refereeing us, so long as we're not playing Barnet?

I emailed the FL and they've just responded with this.... 1/2

2/2

Not surprised to see a Crook working at the FA

It's all a fair point of course, I remember all those games when Cumberland FA registered referee Mike Pike showed huge bias towards CUFC.

That was a quick and thorough reply.
Maybe you should e-mail Jessica again and ask her if she knows who the secret billionaire is.
Gripe with refs sometimes is that they do seem to make impulsive decisions and rarely seem in command of the game.
I think refs do sometimes seem to have it in for a particular team, probably because something has sparked this either on the day or because of previous.
We have done our fair share of gamesmanship antics this year and think our reputation goes before us these days.
Personally, I would like to see more cards brandished for timewasting, cynical fouls, diving etc ( we would have had a few on Monday!).
Fans wouldn't tolerate their team resorting to such antics as it would cost the team.
Ruins the game if people get sent off, but there's no need for that to happen if you play fair.
Footnote to say if I was the ref, I would cut out the towelling the ball down at thrown ins for a start!

I'd introduce letting them use common sense again rather than be a robot and looking like they have to fill a quota on a number of cards to be shelled out each game.