Soccer hooligans have clearly abandoned their old lager-lout tactics and have evolved choosing more sophisticated methods of venting their rage at match officials. It still remains unclear whether this shift is for better or worse? On Saturday it emerged that the Wikipedia page of English Premier League referee Kevin Friend … Continue reading
Move over Howie, you have a Friend joining you on the podium of referee incompetence. 43-year-old Leicester referee Kevin Friend has been voted worst referee in the Barclay’s Premier League after our season-long referee poll by RedCardTheRef. Friend captured 318 of 927 votes in our annual survey, easily overtaking his … Continue reading
Despite his glaring errors throughout the rest of the match, referee Martin Atkinson got one call right: ejecting Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard for his deliberate stomp on Manchester United opponent Ander Herrera. The ìmmediate howls of derision from Reds fans in Sunday’s marquee Premier League clash at Anfield were to be … Continue reading
UEFA has missed the boat once again, this time in their handling of Wednesday’s controversial red card to Paris Saint Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Instead of sending off the Swedish international, referee Bjorn Kuipers and Chelsea midfielder Oscar should be the ones facing disciplinary action instead of the Ibrahimovic. The Dutch official and … Continue reading
It was only four minutes into Sunday’s soggy match St. Mary’s Stadium that Southampton fans commenced with the bitter chants of “You don’t know what you’re doing,” while venting their rage at English Premier League referee Kevin Friend. But how could things go so wrong, so quickly for the often … Continue reading
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a popular Twitter quartet of referee Anthony Taylor’s glaring errors has Liverpool fans seeing Red following Saturday’s crushing 2-1 Barclays Premier League loss to Chelsea. As the action in the BPL heats up, the latest sub-par performance by a match official … Continue reading
FIFA acted quickly and on Thursday and slapped Uruguay striker Luis Suarez with a lengthy suspension for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. Suarez was banned four months from all football related activity and was also suspended for nine international matches after a review of the highly-publicized incident by the disciplinary committee of the … Continue reading
To Football Association and FIFA executives he is still considered the cream of the crop of referees, but to English Premier League fans he remains the lowest of the low. Veteran referee Howard Webb has retained his title as worst referee in the Barclay’s English Premier League after extensive fan … Continue reading
Despite its thrilling goals at the beginning and end, Saturday’s Merseyside Derby was wrongfully dubbed a classic by many match observers. A classic if you crave violence, brutal studs up challenges, elbows and forearm shivers to the face or a series of unbookable tit-for-tat fouls that go intentionally unpunished…then sure … Continue reading