referees on strike. all scotlandshire league fixtures cancelled next week

[gatso]

blimey

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/scottish-premier/8150187/Scotlands-referees-vote-to-go-on-strike-next-weekend-after-barrage-of-criticism.html

[TightEnd]

** Hopes all Celtic supporters on blonde are offline for 24 hours ***

[TightEnd]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9214212.stm has the video of the Dundee United Incident

Rights and wrongs of the refereeing aside (and I know there is a chip on the shoulder about it going back decades), its way OTT to be sending hate mail to these guys, surely.

[DaveShoelace]

Good, whenever I switch onto Soccer Saturday I always do so just when the Scottish premier league results are showing on the vidi printer loop and it takes ages to get to (sigh) league one, particularly this season now they have rejigged all their displays and what not, which is a pain.

I presume that's why they are striking?

[Graham C]

Surprised it's not happened before to be honest.  Ref's take all kinds of terrible abuse.   I'd expect a bit of verbal, especially with some of the decisions that get made, but death threats etc are too much.  It's been going on for years, about time the governing bodies did something about it.   

[TheChipPrince]

Fair play to them, horrible scenes watching Lennon scream in the officials face.

[boldie]

Fair play to them, horrible scenes watching Lennon

FYP. He's always been a twat.

Edit; Not as bad as that pillock of an ex home secretary though.

[henrik777]

Death threats are clearly wrong.

Referees in Scotland however, have apparently no punishment for getting it wrong. We all make mistakes but in most walks of life there is severe punishment for trying to lie your way out of it. There was a big fuss in the press when the linesman from the Dundee Utd game resigned. Most of this was directed towards Celtic/Lennon and the blame for the resignation was firmly place in this direction until Craven said it was due to the Dallas and his cronies bullying him and trying to get him to cover up the mistake.

Best mistake in scottish football about 70 secs in.

Sandy

[Rod Paradise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9214212.stm has the video of the Dundee United Incident

Rights and wrongs of the refereeing aside (and I know there is a chip on the shoulder about it going back decades), its way OTT to be sending hate mail to these guys, surely.

Yet to see any of the mate mail - the Refs Association said the linesman resigned due to threats to his familly from Celtic fans - he categorically denied it.

They said that Conroy (the ref from the Old Firm game) got threats over the phone, but he refused to get the police involved so as not to escalate it, then the Refs Association take it to the papers? Surely no-one buys that one.

The referreeing crisis is that their wee boys club is being scrutinised, they tried to cover up lies from MacDonald, but got caught, they then only gave him a warning, becuse they are the only ones who can judge themselves.

If they strike we can hire foreign refs, hopefully ones that wouldn't fail a refereeing exam.

[Rod Paradise]

Fair play to them, horrible scenes watching Lennon scream in the officials face.

Yet a couple of seasons ago the Rangers Manager manhandled the 4th official & nothing was done....

[Graham C]

Fair play to them, horrible scenes watching Lennon scream in the officials face.

Yet a couple of seasons ago the Rangers Manager manhandled the 4th official & nothing was done....

Nice and recent then, perhaps recent activities are the final straw after putting up with it for years.

[henrik777]

Fair play to them, horrible scenes watching Lennon scream in the officials face.

Yet a couple of seasons ago the Rangers Manager manhandled the 4th official & nothing was done....

Nice and recent then, perhaps recent activities are the final straw after putting up with it for years.

There isn't a country that plays football where match officials make mistakes and get abuse. It was so bad that a "respect" campaign was started in England.

The officials may be fed up and i don't understand why anyone would want to do those jobs but i don't think that's why they are going on strike or at least it's not the whole picture.

Sandy

[boldie]

Fair play to them, horrible scenes watching Lennon scream in the officials face.

Yet a couple of seasons ago the Rangers Manager manhandled the 4th official & nothing was done....

Lets not make this a "But now that it's Celtic they do something about it, Rangers always get away with it" sort of discussion.

It's bang out of order and needs to be dealt with.

The ref clearly got it wrong during the Dundee Utd match and should have just said "Listen, I gave it and immediately realised I Fed up so I decided to override myself"...that would have been job done...well, clearly not job done as Lennon would still have gone mental but that would have been the thing to do.

That didnt happen and it all kicked off since then. That ref should be punished, definitely. But the massive over-reaction there has been is plainly ridic.

[GreekStein]

lolol scottish football lolololol

[matt674]

They should be made to do what we had to when our Sunday League referee's didnt turn up - one member of each teams sideline referees one half each

They'll soon learn not to complain about the referee's again

although to be fair i think the standard of our Sunday League was about 2 rungs higher that the Scottish lower divisions......