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Sheffields Finest

Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind!
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Not sure how accurate this is (or was) but as you get up the leagues and structure and your name is out there, is there a national list that certain referees do not referee the team the may (or may not) support!!! It does seem to come around from time to time about where referees live etc!!
 
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JamesL said:
Less curious when you look at their localities and where they are from.
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Always seems to be the case though. Just find it an extraordinarily strange coincidence that none of the top refs ever support United/City/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool etc. Newcastle I guess is the exception from the list above. I don't believe any refs (especially at that level) harbour any sort of bias, but I do find it interesting nonetheless.
 
I reffed at the Blades Academy many years ago, U12s and they played Forest Boys U12, (They'd all be mid 20s now), they were all brilliant, I gave a penalty against a Blades defender, not a squeek out of him or the parents watching from afar, it was actually quite refreshing!!!

I do seem to remember having thoughts about any bias that I may of had before the game but I was just like any other once we got going!! UTB!!! :rolleyes:
 
Sheffields Finest said:
I reffed at the Blades Academy many years ago, U12s and they played Forest Boys U12, (They'd all be mid 20s now), they were all brilliant, I gave a penalty against a Blades defender, not a squeek out of him or the parents watching from afar, it was actually quite refreshing!!!

I do seem to remember having thoughts about any bias that I may of had before the game but I was just like any other once we got going!! UTB!!! :rolleyes:
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I really hope I can do some Norwich Youth games this season, sounds like really good fun experience
 
This is where Scotland cant do such a thing, again, in no way implying bias but, in laymans' terms, if you took 10 refs, 4 would be Celtic, 3 Rangers, 1 (insert random team), 1 would be Hearts and 1 would be lying !!

It does seem odd that for Man Utd being arguably the biggest supported team in the world, none of the top refs claim to follow them, Mike Dean given his locality would be assumed to be Liverpool or Everton, ( he even got appointed then removed from the FA Cup final involving Liverpool) although it does follow the one city one team theory that everyone from Newcastle supports Newcastle.

I think anyone who has had experience of reffing a team they follow (at any level) has prob faced allegations that they out weigh any perceived favouritism by giving too much to the other team !!
 
I think we're all biased at all times, albeit unawares. Trying not to be bias is surest way of being just that
Lots of biases, based on how long's left, a run of decisions against a team, aggravation, fans, side of bed one got out of etc etc
It's very difficult. Every person (sometimes including assistants) is there to distract or influence the ref, resulting in bias whether we like it or not.
If i reffed the geordies, i'd eject Ashley from the stadium sharpish. One less fat distraction
 
Big Cat said:
I think we're all biased at all times, albeit unawares. Trying not to be bias is surest way of being just that
Lots of biases, based on how long's left, a run of decisions against a team, aggravation, fans, side of bed one got out of etc etc
It's very difficult. Every person (sometimes including assistants) is there to distract or influence the ref, resulting in bias whether we like it or not.
If i reffed the geordies, i'd eject Ashley from the stadium sharpish. One less fat distraction
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Big Cat said:
I think we're all biased at all times, albeit unawares. Trying not to be bias is surest way of being just that
Lots of biases, based on how long's left, a run of decisions against a team, aggravation, fans, side of bed one got out of etc etc
It's very difficult. Every person (sometimes including assistants) is there to distract or influence the ref, resulting in bias whether we like it or not.
If i reffed the geordies, i'd eject Ashley from the stadium sharpish. One less fat distraction
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Leaving you just 50,999 clones of him to also remove...
 
Attwell is from Nuneaton. Believe he lives down near Luton at the moment. Nearest club to their house list?
 
Craig Pawson lives on my road, I don't recall a Blades shirt drying on his washing line!!

Ironically he lives far closer to The Massive than The City Club!!! :mute:
 
Ciley Myrus said:
This is where Scotland cant do such a thing, again, in no way implying bias but, in laymans' terms, if you took 10 refs, 4 would be Celtic, 3 Rangers, 1 (insert random team), 1 would be Hearts and 1 would be lying !!

It does seem odd that for Man Utd being arguably the biggest supported team in the world, none of the top refs claim to follow them, Mike Dean given his locality would be assumed to be Liverpool or Everton, ( he even got appointed then removed from the FA Cup final involving Liverpool) although it does follow the one city one team theory that everyone from Newcastle supports Newcastle.

I think anyone who has had experience of reffing a team they follow (at any level) has prob faced allegations that they out weigh any perceived favouritism by giving too much to the other team !!
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the random team would be ayr united ofcourse
 
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