Can I just shock you? I like tits, despite what I’ve just said earlier.
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It looks like our ladies team have been robbed by the officials 3 times today in their match against Everton and to add insult to injury Everton were awarded a penalty wrongly as the tackle was outside the box beard already said the refs do not like him.
Does anybody know if it is PGMOL that picks officials for the WSL as well?
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I have to be very bored to watch one of those women’s games but the quality of the reffing is always awful… even the internationals.
Yesterday’s ref, Abigail Byrne, refs in the men’s national league so is allegedly the best of the bunch 
. She must have been very embarrassed when she saw that penalty decision again…
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If they weren’t off their tits, doesn’t that make it worse?
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The biggest problem is the lack of VAR as some of the stadia where the matches take place cannot afford to install VAR hence why such an experienced ref cannot check such a basic mistake.
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I haven’t seen the clip so I can’t determine what the ref would have seen, but surely this is something that the assistant should have picked up?
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This is fact. Undisputable.
I have it from a very reliable source.
Trust me.
Abigail Byrne received a phone call on Friday.
From Howard Webb.
He asked her if she realised those Scouse bastards had an agenda aginst Cooty and the lads, that they had stitched up the lads with a couple of dodgy videos.
Bit of a joke interview and then a photo of a meal out with a few fans. Normal stuff that the Scouse bastards had used to demonise Coote…
He told our Abigail to give the Scouse women fucking nothing in their next match…
“But Mr Webb…both clubs are Scouse in the Derby?”
"Abbie dearest you have much to learn "
I have the tape…not allowed publish it for four years though.
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Yes they are. 
source: https://www.givemesport.com/what-is-the-pgmol-explained-referees/
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Heaven help our Women’s team then!
I have just seen the penalty instance aginst the women, an atrocious decision with the ref in an excellent position to see it and how she can award a penalty is beyond me. I would be questioning the refs integrity if I had been present.
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I’ve seen it as well. No idea what was going through her head. The assistant was in line with the front players looking for offside, so she wouldn’t have seen it.
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I saw a similar incident in a first round fa cup game last season that was televised live on Youtube. At the time none of the players questioned the decision. It seemed a nailed on penalty but when it was replayed at half time it was obvious that the foul was at least a metre outside the area.
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Of course they are not going to be tested… The PL fixtures this weekend for starters would have to be called off for lack of referee availability…!
Howie protecting his cronies… well at least until they can cleanse house, or get them through a course of rehab
Drug testing for Prem refs ruled out amid David Coote ‘snorting white powder’ controversy
Calls have been made for mandatory testing of Premier League referees and match officials after footage emerged of David Coote allegedly snorting a white powder
Football bosses have no plans to introduce drug testing on referees and match officials.
The public’s faith and trust in referees has slumped to an all-time low following the situation with Coote. But football authorities including FIFA, UEFA, Premier League and the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) have no desire to introduce mandatory drug testing for referees.
Under current WADA rules, there is no requirement for referees to be drug tested. It’s argued that performance enhancing drugs like cocaine would not affect an official’s performance during matches. Although critics have countered this by stating it would be ethically and morally wrong for a referee to be under the influence of drugs while in the workplace.
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It’d actually be as funny as fuck to watch one of them coked out of their minds trying to referee a football match.
I’d pay to watch that.
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Be the only time they could run past a player at speed :0)
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You probably already have.
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Of the directions for this take us in, post-game drug testing of the officials seems like the least productive in terms of what is actually wrong. It would also give the PGMOL to pretend the lack of positive tests means they had eradicated the problem and nightmare from the Coote saga is now over.
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It would be great. There’d be three lads dangling off Mo Salah’s neck and the ref would be laughing and shouting play on…
Oh. Hang on…
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Not sure that is what it is…
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Yeah, it is. It makes you an arrogant dick, but it gives you energy and confidence.
There’s a reason it’s so popular in the financial services sector.
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