Should Mike Newall have included Graham Poll In his assessment of women referees.?
967016
Admired him for his stance on corruption, ie 'bungs' to managers and agents. That sort of thing defrauds the fans who pay already over the odds to watch their teams. But female officials?..C'mon! This would only encourage players to display feminine characteristics on the field, like petty tantrums, hair pulling, biting etc, not to mention feigning injury and unmanly kissing and hugging after scoring! It's a MAN'S game, footie!
1180643
Most of the refs have been reasonable but a few of them just lost it.\nThe ref in the Portugal - Netherlands game was on of the ones that was totally out of his mind. \nI think he just gave out some of the red card to the players that shouldn't have even gotten yellow cards just because they looked at him "in a way that wasn't respectful" or something stupid like that. I think that ref needs to find a therapist and fast too. At least before he looses his job.
1118657
it was graham polls's mistake..i think he forget that simunic had been booked before..i also was shocked when graham poll did not sent simunic off for his second bookable offence..at the very end of the match,poll showed simunic his third yellow card and finally sent him off with a red..surely a talking point..
994908
I think that for some althiemers has set in. For most sometimers has definitely set in. They should be called up by a referee council to learn from their mistakes in an attempt to improve their work.
1010066
i think so. The ref are helping  big europe teams especially those who has high members at the FIFA asociation.
327852
I'm a Saints supporter and had them in the footy tipping, so I'd have to say no. I watched it and didn't hear any siren.\nNeither team played well, so the draw was probably a good result. Accept the umpires' decision and get over it, Freo. Just be grateful Baker didn't kick a goal with his second attempt. Then you'd really be frothing at the mouth.\n\nUpdate 4 May: Oh well, its only a game. It's a strange enough game already without giving the attacking team 2 shots at goal after the siren, I suppose.
1095652
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I didn't notice an obvious bias. Like anyone else, refs make mistakes. They probably made equally bad calls against Ecuador, but when you are a big fan in the heat of the match, you don't notice those calls as much.\n\nGood luck to England the rest of the way!
1180881
hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\nBad ref. I thought the FIFA referee is better\nOr may be he must sit down under pressure and he can't remember how many yelow card did he give Simunic.\nAnd one more : YELOW but not YELOV
584052
Its hard to say...As i have already said before...I think doing favours and gifts for referees are a common thing here...It has been out in public before...This scandal is a lot like that...I dont think there was direct attempt to fix matches...Time for Italian Football to become more transparent. Like the nations politics and economy...needs a reform!! FORZA ITALIA!!!
1134086
you would be in trouble with the women if you ask a sexist question about football,like everyone keeps asking. i wish people would listen if we like the sport and actually understand it then let us! sorry bout that,still angree from the last question i answered,lol! i don't know, ask something like will you shag me? that should violate it!! :)
1110806
YEs yes yes they should i am a big baseball fan and there are so many close calls that i think should be reviewed, an umpire can not see everything at one especially with more than one base runner on at a time. I think a coach should be able to challenge a call just like in football.
1005356
Yes. \n\nI think he's India's 2nd match referee after Vishwanath. It saves us from listening to his commentry too!!
991203
I totally agree with you. He didn't do a proper job as a referee. The first red card needed to be called but the other two? I don't know. A yellow maybe but not a red.
751743
If they let women play on men's teams, then they would have to let men play on women's teams, so the answer is, no.  It is not their fault which school that any player chooses to attend.  By law they should have women's varsity sports.  Have her check again to see which ones are available.  If they don't have the one she wants, she could petition to have it added.
874735
Im a fellow Spurs fan and i agree. The game was overshadowed completely by the media going on about Poll's decisions. Fact of the matter is, Drogba would not have had the free header he did to make it 2-0 because Michael Dawson played to the whistle and would certainly have got to the ball first, Drogba did not play to the whistle (as usual). I have to say that John Terry's sending off was really quite harsh on him but his reaction (or lack of it) to his dismissal, just made him stand out more to me as the consumate professional he is. Would JT's sending off meant that Spurs could hold on for the last 19 mins and win or would Chelsea with 11 men come back to level or win it?.... We'll never know. But i wish that people in the press and football show panels gave more time to talking about the great football on show, than the poor ref on show.
475244
non.. here is the list\n23 referees chosen by FIFA\n\nEssam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)\nCarlos Amarilla (Paraguay)\nBenito Archundia (Mexico)\nCarlos Batres (Guatemala)\nMassimo Busacca (Switzerland)\nCoffi Codjia (Benin)\nFrank De Bleeckere (Belgium)\nMassimo de Santis (Italy)\nHoracio Elizondo (Argentina)\nValentin Ivanov (Russia)\nToru Kamikawa (Japan)\nJorge Larrionda (Uruguay)\nShamsul Maidin (Singapore)\nManuel Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain)\nMarkus Merk (Germany)\nLubos Michel (Slovakia)\nGraham Poll (England)\nEric Poulat (France)\nPeter Prendergast (Jamaica)\nOscar Ruiz (Colombia)\nMark Shield (Australia)\nCarlos Simon (Brazil)\nKyros Vassaras (Greece)
938748
No change.\nLike said earlier. In the last world cup, English referee Graham Poll, issued 3 yellow cards to one player before ejecting him. Along with him, the entire crew were sent home after wards, since his AR's and 4th official, who also is supposed to be keeping up with what is going on to back each other up, also missed the second yellow and Graham and the rest of the crew found out shortly after the match.