Mansford charged

The ref can't have been surprised. Trouble is we now get a reputation for bad behaviour & the future officials will be subconsciously biased against us. Or maybe just biased.
 
Are there any other CEO’s of Football Clubs who’ve been charged for giving the ref grief after the game before? Seems a strange move.

Least he’s moved on from e-mails.
 
Adams Kebab said:
Are there any other CEO’s of Football Clubs who’ve been charged for giving the ref grief after the game before? Seems a strange move.

Least he’s moved on from e-mails.
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I am very surprised it wasn’t McCarthy & TC, although Mick did say “ Coventry were the better team “.
 
Mardarse officials.
They had an absolute shocker of a game, missing a penalty & a red card (& other errors). Then they go crying to the FA because they've been criticised "outside the changing room door."
Their decisions could well have cost us 3 points & has contributed (I accept - in a small way) to our relegation.
The FA & EFL will never forgive us for the protests at the EFL offices & for generally causing them a headache.
It's the officials who should be punished in this case.
 
An absolute bloody joke. Why do we never hear about and actions against shocking referees such as Geoff eltringham last Saturday
Coventry could quite easily have been down to 8 players and he never gave the most blatant penalty
The commentators, the efl league show, the fans all said the same thing. Can’t all be wrong That shit referee should be demoted to national league refereeing until he’s half capable of reffing a match properly.
 
Lasso style ….’Hmmm’

So which is it FA in the dressing room or was it around the dressing room?

if the former AND the latter - which was presumably therefore witnessed by officials, then ok bang to rights.

But the charge should therefore read in AND around, not OR.

If it was one or the other, but not both, then the charge should be specific - IN the changing room - AROUND the changing room. Again In either case there would be a witness statement to back it up and place them at the scene.

The inclusion of the word OR indicates uncertainty, which location was it? If both say so. The charge as worded in the statement does therefore call into question how officials know it was them. If they saw them in any of these locations surely the charge should be specific?

I smell a rat. Officials knew they’d had a stinker and decided to get this in to coincide with our own match report - which presumably was scathing. I’m sure there was lots of things said by loads of people.

The authorities should be more transparent with how poor decisions are dealt with - and not just in the PL where a bloke is sacked for making one cock up on VAR - VAR!! Now there’s a thing - what would that have made of Saturday??
If all the officials we’ve had were sacked for one mistake there’d be no one left….

BM should insist a video of the game’s major refereeing decisions be shown at his hearing and then do a Sully and say ‘Now can we get serious….’

Lasso style’Grrrrrrrrr’
 
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Sooty59 said:
The ref can't have been surprised. Trouble is we now get a reputation for bad behaviour & the future officials will be subconsciously biased against us. Or maybe just biased.
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They already are, so there couldn’t be any more biased if they tried.
 
585 = never give up said:
Mardarse officials.
They had an absolute shocker of a game, missing a penalty & a red card (& other errors). Then they go crying to the FA because they've been criticised "outside the changing room door."
Their decisions could well have cost us 3 points & has contributed (I accept - in a small way) to our relegation.
The FA & EFL will never forgive us for the protests at the EFL offices & for generally causing them a headache.
It's the officials who should be punished in this case.
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That’s the real reason we constantly get shit from officials and the EFL. We get instant red( Carey) for a similar tackle against us that went unpunished. We get £25k fine for 2 offences of failing to control players, Sheff United get £12k for 3 offences, the list goes on and on. SS should consult his lawyers and see if we haven’t got a case against them.
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
An absolute bloody joke. Why do we never hear about and actions against shocking referees such as Geoff eltringham last Saturday
Coventry could quite easily have been down to 8 players and he never gave the most blatant penalty
The commentators, the efl league show, the fans all said the same thing. Can’t all be wrong That shit referee should be demoted to national league refereeing until he’s half capable of reffing a match properly.
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Even Mark Robins said “we got away with one there”
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
An absolute bloody joke. Why do we never hear about and actions against shocking referees such as Geoff eltringham last Saturday
Coventry could quite easily have been down to 8 players and he never gave the most blatant penalty
The commentators, the efl league show, the fans all said the same thing. Can’t all be wrong That shit referee should be demoted to national league refereeing until he’s half capable of reffing a match properly.
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Don't agree with that sorry. The national league deserve better than that. That ref is not fit for ANY level as he would cause controversy with those type of decisions. Not fit for purpose. End of!
 
It pisses me off that useless EFL refs are 'punished ' by still getting paid to ref at Championship level. It's not fair on the Leagues below that they have to put up with these incompetents.
 
Well done Ben. The wimps officiating needed telling. This is professional football wouldn’t be acceptable if it was a kid’s game but I defy anyone who loves the club to have had the willpower to resist having a pop.
 
Tell the fa to fuck off, absolutely no accountability at all, it's a completely one way street. It will not be long before one of the dodgy corporate club owners takes the fa and / or the refs association to court, but then those clubs mostly get decisions in their favour
 
Ben should have held back. By the end the difference in class was obvious. By then, most of us would have been too pissed off to have a go at anyone.
 
I'm told he said his piece to the ref following the Burnley game also ... As did the Burnley official ..
 
Ben is obviously feeling the pressure now, from appointing Appleton and the lack of quality signings in the transfer window, maybe he faces the

sack if we go down. But swearing and having verbals with the ref after the game never achieves anything, it rarely does in any workplace.

But there is a simple reason that the other teams get more of the big decisions, they have more of the ball.
 
Is the ref being charged? Maybe for bringing the game into disrepute. They have a hard job but that was not a hard decision; it was basic.
 
What I don’t get is why are referees who have a blatantly obvious mare of a game aren’t regularly sanctioned
After all there is a referee assessor monitoring their performance; or is a closed shop?
I read one a few weeks back where a Premiership ref (forgot his name) got demoted to refereeing in the Championship.
Wow, that really is a punishment.
Football clubs depend on these guys and bad decisions can financially ruin clubs.
The sooner they introduce VAR into all matches the better, but regardless of that there will still be howlers from refs.
 
I don't understand why there can't be a board that looks into potential cheating or abnormal poor performances by referees . If someone was to start a petition nation wide they would easily get over a million signatures because we are not the only club that has had games were the ref seems biased in some way . Every club in the EFL has had it and it gives some fight back if the club is allowed to ask for an investigation. It may actually help the refs be fairer because they have to watch their own backs.
 
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I don't understand why there can't be a board that looks into potential cheating or abnormal poor performances by referees . If someone was to start a petition nation wide they would easily get over a million signatures because we are not the only club that has had games were the ref seems biased in some way . Every club in the EFL has had it and it gives some fight back if the club is allowed to ask for an investigation. It may actually help the refs be fairer because they have to watch their own backs.
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I don't think the referees are biased at all.

I think they are just incredibly shit at their jobs. Every club in this league has had utterly terrible decisions go for them and against them this season.
 
What is the point of having a go at the refs at the end of the game ?

It’s done and dusted .

I understand the clamour on here to “ye have a go at them “ good on him for sticking up for our club etc but what is the actual point in so doing ?

I don’t know what sort of fine applies might be negligible and if so worth it but if it’s 5 figures etc then it’s just a waste of money it seems .

Unlike some others on here I think Ben is a good ceo and has made excellent progress but unless someone can convince me otherwise seems to me to be a potentially costly lack of judgement on this occasion
 
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That's the way it goes unfortunately.
BFC will get admonished/fined, whatever, and nothing else will be done.
FA are up their own arses when it comes to problems like this.
FA, 'We'll just fine the club and everything will go away'.
Pathetic. The real culprits (Ref & Team) will not get any action against them.
 
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