In all my years of officiating football I’ve never seen two referees get into a fight on the pitch but I’ve seen a couple of ‘em come to blows in the locker room and once was involved in a match where the center referee over-rode and/or ignored all of the calls by his side judges the entire first half of the game that they refused to continue to referee the second half with him.
I was one of the line referees.
The center referee’s behavior was so erratic, so arbitrary, and so unfair – to both sides – that when he adamantly refused our requests for him to either cede his center position or at very least recognize our line flags and calls, we were forced to quit the match, file a protest, and leave him to center the rest of the game with volunteer linesmen.
Subsequently, even though at one time he’d been the President of the Referee’s Association, he was suspended from further refereeing. It turned out that the man was suffering from some serious mental health issues. ( Not that you didn’t have to be a bit mental to become a referee in the first place! )
Imagine over 3 years ago
Leave the umps to work it out themselves.
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
What we need is a third ref to breakup the other two refs.
ronaldspence over 3 years ago
Where is Ted Lasso when you need him?
Susan00100 over 3 years ago
Can you imagine American politicians trying to settle their differences like that?? ;-)
scote1379 Premium Member over 3 years ago
That’s what VAR is for…. use it !
Andy L over 3 years ago
Some distant cousin of Andy’s turned ref? ;-)
Geophyzz over 3 years ago
This is out of character for Andy. A match without the refs is a match without red cards.
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 3 years ago
Refs from Ireland? The U.S.?
Buckeye67 over 3 years ago
This has to be a first for Andy, playing the role of peacemaker.
Linguist over 3 years ago
In all my years of officiating football I’ve never seen two referees get into a fight on the pitch but I’ve seen a couple of ‘em come to blows in the locker room and once was involved in a match where the center referee over-rode and/or ignored all of the calls by his side judges the entire first half of the game that they refused to continue to referee the second half with him.
I was one of the line referees.
The center referee’s behavior was so erratic, so arbitrary, and so unfair – to both sides – that when he adamantly refused our requests for him to either cede his center position or at very least recognize our line flags and calls, we were forced to quit the match, file a protest, and leave him to center the rest of the game with volunteer linesmen.
Subsequently, even though at one time he’d been the President of the Referee’s Association, he was suspended from further refereeing. It turned out that the man was suffering from some serious mental health issues. ( Not that you didn’t have to be a bit mental to become a referee in the first place! )
tad1 over 3 years ago
Who’s going to send the referees off?