19 02, 2025

Webb’s PR nonsense back in force in the never-ending MLS red saga

By |2025-02-19T08:08:24+00:00February 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Rant, referees|0 Comments

Happy Wednesday folks - hope you and yours are well. I don't know why I bothered to check out the farcical pantomime that was "Match officials mic'd up" whilst browsing through Sky Sports' website last night on the way back from work, but I did. And it was the review of the MLS red card [...]

12 11, 2024

Can we FINALLY get some real change at PGMOL now please?

By |2024-11-12T08:03:15+00:00November 12th, 2024|History, premier league, Rant, referees|0 Comments

There's only really one place to start today, eh? David Coote. Winning of the "I'm going to send Tomiyasu off for breathing on Jordan Ayew" award for farcical refereeing, was yesterday suspended from duties by the PGMOL, pending an investigation into his conduct. The video that leaked - a pretty clear-cut case of two blokes having [...]

14 11, 2023

Good for Martin, bad for Jesus, terrible from PGMOL

By |2023-11-14T08:51:47+00:00November 14th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, referees|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to Tuesday, which will probably be the last of the regularly released rambling utterances from yours truly on here, because in about 13 hours from writing this I'm off to New Zealand for a few weeks. I'll try to get a few blogs and thoughts penned in during that time, but [...]

11 10, 2023

Refereeing transparency is good, but there are still too many questions unanswered

By |2023-10-11T07:44:59+01:00October 11th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

Morning folks - we all good? Or are you one of the many people slightly irritated by the 'Refs mic'd up' content Sky Sports pushed out last night featuring refereeing chief Howard Webb and, oddly, Michael Owen? On the Owen stuff, I'm not sure i've ever seen any kind of tactical insight worth him being [...]

13 02, 2023

PGMOL – time to front up to more accountability

By |2023-02-13T08:00:58+00:00February 13th, 2023|Arsenal, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Rant, referees|2 Comments

Morning folks, how we all doing after that weekend, eh? Did the PGMOL's 'apology' make everything all good in the world? Nah, thought not. There's a couple of thoughts I have on this; firstly, that in some respects I think this was the right move from Howard Webb. If I'm in his shoes and there [...]

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