Premier League 2010/11 general thread

[abigsmurf]

My only worry with women officials in if a controversial decision is made and 3 or 4 players run up to the official shouting, it takes on a much more sinister light.

I think there are a lot of players who wouldn't do that and without feeling their able to vent their feelings, it'll just bubble up inside. It may be harder for women to control aggressive games as a result. You can't exactly card someone for being angry and not doing anything.

Won't know how it turns out though until women become more commonplace. At the moment they can just direct their anger at the ref.

No issue at all with how capable women are in terms of fitness or knowledge of the game though. If 45 year old men can be fit enough to comfortably keep up, a woman who stays in shape should cope fine too (although possibly they may have to retire earlier).

[Flabio]

To be a premier league assitant ref she will have had to work up all the way from non-league, so I doubt the FA have any issues with her competence.

Didn't Sky give the boot to Rodney Marsh for off colour remarks? Are these two getting away with it cause they said it 'off air'?

[EJG1980]

I know I'm not going to get my wish, but I'd love it if Sky sacked Keys and Grey over this. Sexism is just as bad as any other kind of prejudice, no place for it anywhere these days, but I'm sure Sky will do the sum total of bugger all about it.

I'd like to see more women officials. Perhaps it would stop players being twats and constantly swearing at refs, harassing them, etc.. Obviously it would be nice if they could just learn to do that anyway due to it being the right way to act, but that's asking too much

Didn't Sky give the boot to Rodney Marsh for off colour remarks? Are these two getting away with it cause they said it 'off air'?

Yeah, made a stupid joke about how the "Toon Army" chants of Newcastle fans sounded like "Tsunami", right after the Boxing Day Tusnami a few years back (or something along those lines). If that's worth a sacking then Keys and Gray should definitely be gone.

[SharkSkin-Man]

I don't get how Keys is still on there anyway, surely everyone hates the hairy-handed twat?

Although to be fair, when I heard him say "do me a favour, love" I did laugh - it's probably his finest moment.


Other than someone screaming "get your rat out!" during a lull in the crowd noise (again I laughed, sorry) she got surprisingly little stick from the fans.


Edit: Bonus Feature!

Kevin Muscat is still an animal then...

[EJG1980]

To be fair, the fact that I have a passionate hatred for Richard Keys could be slightly influencing me on the "sack him!!!!" front

[vanpeebles]

Kevin Muscat legend, whenever we have a "name the most dirty footballer competition" I always win hands down with Muscat.

[nakamura]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iwTAKdDr_c

Oh dear. Would love more than anything for Gray to get sacked.

[SharkSkin-Man]

From Twatter.

OliverKayTimes
Amused to hear Kenny Dalglish began today's presser by asking Sky's @VinnOConnor if he was ok with a female journo being in the room.

[abigsmurf]

Kevin Muscat was born in Crawley... That explains an awful lot.

Andy Gray can't be sacked! Who else would turn every Liverpool game into a lovefest with 'his boy Stevie G'?

[EJG1980]

From Twatter.

OliverKayTimes
Amused to hear Kenny Dalglish began today's presser by asking Sky's @VinnOConnor if he was ok with a female journo being in the room.

Nice one Kenny

[Spooky Mulder]

Ron Atkinson rightly got the boot from ITV for making a disgusting racist comments about Marcel Desailly, when he thought his mic was turned off during a Champions League game...but Sky think it's acceptable for a trained chimp (my apologies to all trained chimps...Keys is actually hairier than you guys...and less trained) and the management bottler 'Stevie G senior' Andy Gray, to make sexist comments and let them get away with it...

FFS Sky, Richard Keys is an embarrassment to football broadcasting, sack the tw*t and employ someone with at least a modicum of knowledge about the sport... and who doesn't fawn over guests, then look all knowingly at the camera....

[EJG1980]

Keys and Gray won't be involved with the Bolton vs Chelsea match tonight. Seems to only be a one off thing though, shame.

[abigsmurf]

Seems they won't be punditting (mmm verbing nouns) for today's game but otherwise their careers are intact.

I'd imagine it's more damage limitation than any real intent to punish them.

Although maybe it means we could get people who actually have something good to say about us at times.

[rmoxon]

Unfortunatley, in most jobs, not just media related ones, if people who talked like that got fired then there would be very few people left in work as people say stupid things to each other all the time.

On the subject of women officals, I'm not really sure, do they have female officals in other sports where only males are playing?

For me its not so much an issue of wether a woman can be a lines person (becuase, as that one at the weekend proved, they obviously can) but in an all male game of football it just seems to make sense that the officals should be male too.

[Ginger Tosser]

Kevin Muscat legend, whenever we have a "name the most dirty footballer competition" I always win hands down with Muscat.

I remember when he played for Wolves, he dug his fingernails in to Martin O'Conner's back (Birmingham). Martin stopped playing turned and punched him in the face. He got a standing ovation when the red card was shown.