Post Match: Liverpool v Arsenal (EPL 9/4/23 4.30pm)

[Quicksand]

@Klopptimist

Send off anybody who back chats any official. Would do wonders for the youth of today to see what happens when you step out of line. Very simple respect for authority,

Bad parenting?
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[Klopptimist]

Ah, you’re learning. Excellent.

[Prolix]

[Draexnael]

@Limiescouse

I dont think you can ignore that the lino made no attempt to give Robbo a wide berth as he walked passed him. He made a beeline to where he was going in a way that engaged Robbo directly. This was a not a lino finding himself in a situation where he felt concern for himself and acted in self defense. It was someone who saw an opportunity to act on not liking the way a player had addressed him, possibly related to an incident from earlier in the half.

You cannot uncouple this shit show with the general comment about the attitude of the players towards the officials being problematic. But you also cannot uncouple it from the issue Matty raises often that the overall unpleasantness that generates selects for a certain personality of person who chooses to go into it, and that maybe played into this more than people are willing to acknowledge.

He’s on roids, defo was up for a scrap.

[WeeJoe]

@Klopptimist

Send off anybody who back chats any official.

@The-AllMightyReds

Get better officials who know what they’re doing and you won’t have so much abuse towards them,

The solution lies somewhere in between

[Draexnael]

Can’t be far away from Robots.

[1972]

@Sportbilly1966

However, If I was in the street and someone came upto me like the that, they would be wearing my forehead.

@Sportbilly1966

In no way do I condone the assistant ref’s response but I also don’t condone how Robbo approached him.

@Sportbilly1966

feel I can comment on the attitude of players towards referee’s, especially in footy and believe me, in footy, I am no angel on the pitch.

I just feel at the professional level they are an entitled bunch and if players were dealt with to the letter of the law the altercation between Robbo and the ref wouldn’t have happened.

Lots of contradictory statements in these comments. You’re all over the show mate.

I agree there needs to be much more respect for the officials in general but the incident with Robbo is not the one to use to highlight this. The standard of officiating is atrocious, if not downright corrupt. I’d be all for the refs yellow carding simulation, time wasting, abusing the refs, IF it was done consistently, not just picking and choosing.

There is no way someone would be sent off for what Robbo did in any level of the game. I can’t see him shouting, his face isn’t contorted in anger, the ‘coming’ together lasted max 2 or 3 seconds. If you’d give a red card there, then you’re the entitled one.

For me, 100% the linesman is bang out of order.

[Quicksand]

@1972

the linesman is bang out of order.

And that nicely sums up the debate.
There are no excuses for his behaviour.
There are no arguments against Robbo.

Try being a nurse in the ER on a Saturday night with some low life spitting in your face. You can’t react, or you lose your job and registration.
And that happens when you are doing your job right.

These officials make mistakes that effect players, managers and supporters. They alter the outcomes of games and the moods of millions.
They are sometimes biased and corrupt and omnipotent in attitude.

Then the bleating cunts like Keane/Gallagher/SKY deride a player with the passion to tell them they are wrong. Muppets.

[Sportbilly1966]

I now play in NZ and you would be sent off for what Robbo did, you only have to look at a player wrong for a foul to be given

What is contradictory?

[Quicksand]

@Sportbilly1966

I now play in NZ and you would be sent off for what Robbo did, you only have to look at a player wrong for a foul to be given

What is contradictory?

What did he do?

You are working off the velief that this was Mitrovic territory. It wasn’t

[Sportbilly1966]

You just don’t see anything wrong with how Robbo approached him do you?

[Quicksand]

@Sportbilly1966

You just don’t see anything wrong with how Robbo approached him do you?

No.

You are being more ref than player in this discussion.
No matter what Robbo does, the reaction remains out of order.

[Sportbilly1966]

Lol I have played footy since the age of 14 and I am a ripe old 56 and still playing I was a referee instructor and reffed for probably 17 years in a former career.

So I think I am far more a player than a ref, if you think Robbo’s approach is ok then that is what is wrong with footy.

The best way is to just walk off next to the ref etc and just chat pointing out what they missed or got wrong in a friendly chat kind of way, works all the time.

I have had many disagreements with refs, but never swear at them or ‘get in their face’ and I know how far I can push them, currently professional footballers get away with dissent and being abusive all the time. And as I have said Robbo was far less provoactive, abusive or vehement in his approach as others but did get ‘in his face’ and the assistant ref shouldn’t have done what he did and will be penalised.

[tesh]

FA to take no action following Robertson incident

[1972]

Wow! Just wow! Corrupt 100%. Not even hiding it against us now. I wonder what Brighton has done to the FA.

[Dutch]

Like we all know there are the rules of the game and there are rules when there is a Liverpool player involved …

[RedWhippet]

Whilst pulling his arm away he belted him across the face? Sounds about as likely as those people in A&E explaining how they came to have a hoover stuck up their arse.

[mattyhurst]

I expected them to ban Robbo somehow so I’m not too bothered.

[Bekloppt]

So, just to clarify, it’s now ok for officials to strike players if they complain about decisions.
Let’s see how this goes…

[Sportbilly1966]

So wrong as it was in public view and he should have been treated the same way as Mitrovic!

Still a mountain out of a molehill but that is what the media does.