2 referee assaults in 2 days

[Ross]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36157631

Cant find anything on the 2nd at the moment, but reports suggest he was attacked by a spectator

 

[SM]

Grrr ​

 

[Charlie Jones]

embarrassing!!

 

[Mooseybaby]

WTF is wrong with some people?

 

[Raider025]

Wow... Here in the US people are afraid to even talk bad to referees because we have "Zero Tolerance".

 

[SM]

I have seen YouTube videos and newspaper reports which would indicate that this is not accurate

 

[YorkshireReferee]

I have seen YouTube videos and newspaper reports which would indicate that this is not accurate

My immediate thoughts on reading the BBC report was that something didn't add up, whilst a push on an official is an assault, there seems to much around it, surely something more happened?

 

[Ross]

My immediate thoughts on reading the BBC report was that something didn't add up, whilst a push on an official is an assault, there seems to much around it, surely something more happened?

Reports ive had from colleagues and from people that were there would suggest more did indeed happen. Cant possibly comment any more than that

 

[Peter Grove]

Wow... Here in the US people are afraid to even talk bad to referees because we have "Zero Tolerance".

Unfortunately that's just not true. At the 2015 trial in Detroit of a man who killed a referee by punching him when he was about to be red carded, the judge remarked on a growing trend of referee assaults across the US. According to a report on the trial:

Experts agree with [the judge's remarks], saying that there's a culture of disrespecting sports officials that can spill over into violence and even death. The year before Bieniewicz died, a player in Utah killed a soccer referee over a call he didn't like. In Michigan, legislators want to increase the penalties for attacks on referees: a pair of bills passed a Senate committee last week. Twenty-three other states in the U.S. have such laws, according to the National Association of Sports Officials.

 

[Raider025]

Unfortunately that's just not true. At the 2015 trial in Detroit of a man who killed a referee by punching him when he was about to be red carded, the judge remarked on a growing trend of referee assaults across the US. According to a report on the trial:

My apologies. I should have clarified. Here in New York, that's what I meant.