Ref squares up

Ref Darren Drysdale, squares upto Ipswich player & has to get ushered away by Northampton player.

 

Lol. I've done that while umpiring in a cricket match. Ironically it was a "friendly."

 

Judge soon got out of the way

 

Ipswich not in a happy place. Yesterday a group of supporters went to the training ground and threw flares onto the pitch and it set a fence in fire and they had to cancel training session.

Whilst Big Mick is turning Cardiff into promotion contenders.

 

The **** they take and the cheating they have to manage, I wish more refs would do it. Footballers!!!! Overpaid chavs with a sense of entitlement that has infected recent generations, to the extent that they wear it like a badge of honour.

Feel much better now and in the above, I include all brexiteers and covid deniers.

 

We should clone Pierluigi Collina, for the good of the game..

 

Thanks for video, I hadn’t seen it, only knew cos we know him locally(as a ref) and someone posted on FB.
Didn’t think it was Penalty personally, don’t agree with what he did, but also don’t agree with how other Ipswich players appeared to carry it on(especially no.14).
Not a great advert all round.

 

In my younger days, one of the local refs was known as one of the leading antagonists of the LTE(hooligans) and was known to go and find a player afterwards..
Fair to say he didn’t get much stick.

 

This story is on the home page of the BBC this morning, safe to say it might just not 'blow over'. Be interesting to see what line the FA take considering they like to punish the players for any contact with the ref. In mitigation, it was probably only a matter of time before a ref had a bite back, given that some players seem to think they can abuse the officials as much as possible with little 'on pitch' retribution.

 

I don't see what the referee has done wrong here in all honesty.

He might have stood his ground a little too firmly, but referee's are often accused of losing control of situations. The player he books is certainly the aggressor, and we don't know for certain what he has said. The situation is diffused very quickly, and there doesn't appear to be any arguments about the decision.

Personally I felt it was a dive too.

 

I know Darren very well and this is not the person I know. Something must have been said for him to react like that, totally out of character.

 

I'm only surprised that this doesn't happen more, the way that players abuse refs. Whether its a penalty or not is irrelevant, a player has no right to go mouthing off at the ref. I'd like to know what the player said to get that reaction.

 

I'd like to know why, if the ref thought it was so bad that he had to react the way he did, that he didn't book him for it? He only received one booking in the game which was obviously for the dive so if the ref thought his reaction was so terrible why didn't he get a yellow for that instead of essentially a threat of violence instead?

 

Impossible to say whether the booking was for the abuse or the dive. However, these days players rarely get booked for diving....

 

I didn't think you could give a foul for simulation without giving a yellow card as well. If the ref simply waves it away then they don't book the player but I don't think I've ever seen them give the foul without the booking

 

If I were the club I'd keep quiet. It might get the referee into trouble but the player will receive punishment too. I'd keep a low profile. If I was the ref I'd refuse interviews too.

 

I agree it wasn't an exactly professional response from the Ref, but its really a nothing story. If he'd have laid him out or attempted to throw a punch then yes, he'd deserve severe punishment but not for this.

I've been trying to think of a severe enough punishment for punching a player and the only thing I can think of is making him read every post from Supertyke that he's ever made on the BBS.