What is it with Phil Dowd?

[Brend'Watkins]

Paul Durkin was the last decent ref we had i reckon.

Agreed.  A ref you never noticed in a game, just got on with it.  Never outwardly pally with players, never flustered, never seemed to lose control (maybe he did but I don't remember any occasions).  He didn't seem to favour big teams either just reffed the game, not the occasion, not the place, just the game.

[LeeB]

Paul Durkin was the last decent ref we had i reckon.

Agreed.  A ref you never noticed in a game, just got on with it.  Never outwardly pally with players, never flustered, never seemed to lose control (maybe he did but I don't remember any occasions).  He didn't seem to favour big teams either just reffed the game, not the occasion, not the place, just the game.

True, and these days we have bell-ends like Graham Poll on Talkshite saying how it's important to know the characters of players so you can referee accordingly, or basically refereeing with extreme prejudice.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Paul Durkin was the last decent ref we had i reckon.

Agreed.  A ref you never noticed in a game, just got on with it.  Never outwardly pally with players, never flustered, never seemed to lose control (maybe he did but I don't remember any occasions).  He didn't seem to favour big teams either just reffed the game, not the occasion, not the place, just the game.

I remember being at The Molineux a few years back and Durkin was the ref, during the warmup a few dingles were giving him a bit of stick about being overweight. As he continued warming up he gently jogged over towards them and said "what was that? All I heard was yam yam, yam yam, yam yam, yam yam"!

Needless to say we all found that rather amusing!

[Somniloquism]

Paul Durkin was the last decent ref we had i reckon.

Agreed.  A ref you never noticed in a game, just got on with it.  Never outwardly pally with players, never flustered, never seemed to lose control (maybe he did but I don't remember any occasions).  He didn't seem to favour big teams either just reffed the game, not the occasion, not the place, just the game.

Andre Marriner doesn't seem too bad. Unfortunately we will never have him ref us as, unlike Dowd, he truthfully answered the question on which club he supports.

[old man villa fan]

Yet if a ref gets a decision wrong, he is slaughtered..ie Halsey for the pen last week..From his angle he would have seen it as a pen, hence why he gave it, yet he got pelters for it.

From Halsey's position (at least 20m back from the play and in the centre of the pitch) he could not have seen an outstretched leg coming towards him making contact with the Southampton player.  He assumed contact had been made and that is no reason to give a penalty.  The only person that could have given it would have been the assistant, assuming his view was not blocked.

[lovejoy]

Yet if a ref gets a decision wrong, he is slaughtered..ie Halsey for the pen last week..From his angle he would have seen it as a pen, hence why he gave it, yet he got pelters for it.

From Halsey's position (at least 20m back from the play and in the centre of the pitch) he could not have seen an outstretched leg coming towards him making contact with the Southampton player.  He assumed contact had been made and that is no reason to give a penalty.  The only person that could have given it would have been the assistant, assuming his view was not blocked.

Exactly. If the ref is in a bad position I can understand why he doesn't give a decision; but to give one for something that didn't happen is basically making things up as he goes along.

[N'ZMAV]

I hated Uriah Rennie

[Legion]

Yes, he gave me indigestion aswell.

[Clampy]

Big Sam has had a dig at Dowd after last night accusing him of big team bias.

He'll probably be fined and given a touchline ban for it though.

Big Sam has today been charged by the F.A.

[Somniloquism]

Yet if a ref gets a decision wrong, he is slaughtered..ie Halsey for the pen last week..From his angle he would have seen it as a pen, hence why he gave it, yet he got pelters for it.

From Halsey's position (at least 20m back from the play and in the centre of the pitch) he could not have seen an outstretched leg coming towards him making contact with the Southampton player.  He assumed contact had been made and that is no reason to give a penalty.  The only person that could have given it would have been the assistant, assuming his view was not blocked.

Obviously further away, but I thought it was a Pen straight away. Delph's bad clearance and then Baker, (I assume), controlled it and then seemed to stop before going to clear as the player burst onto the ball and then player was over. I was doing my nut over the defending, even after the news spread that the player wasn't touched.

[thick_mike]

I remember being furious at Danson in one game...but can't remember why!

[PeterWithesShin]

I remember being furious at Danson in one game...but can't remember why!

Was it because he shagged Whoopi Goldberg or because he wore that stupid wig?

[thick_mike]

I remember being furious at Danson in one game...but can't remember why!

Was it because he shagged Whoopi Goldberg or because he wore that stupid wig?

Got to admit I really fancied Diane.

[shipscat]

Somewhat surprised to find out that Andre Mariner's father owned one of my favourite record shops,second city sounds.

Spent an absolute fortune in there,a splendid collection of 60's and northern soul,and I do remember him helping his old man out in the shop

[Gareth]

Back in day always thought Keith Cooper was a good ref, more recently Alan Wiley was always anonymous and even more recently I hope Michael Oliver continues to develop as he seems competent.

Dowd & Halsey both seem to misunderstand that we dont pay the money to watch them & being sooo slow they make too many decisions via guesswork (not a knock as last Sat because I called pen as well, cheating like that needs to be dealt with after & in that case difficult to fault the ref).