Some sense on Nani's red card
This is an excellent blog focusing on european football refereeing. Sensible articles and some decent comments
Harrogate Road cycling options appear to be being ruled out
Mark Perryman as usual talking rubbish about football on socialistunity.com
For reasons unknown to me, I’m banned from commenting on their site, but the folks at socialistunity are hosting the usual rubbish spouting forth from Mark Perryman about football.
Leave aside the schoolchild error about the “rules of the game” -football has Laws, not rules, as anyone who has ever troubled themselves to read the laws of the game knows.
Mark spouts his usual bland generalities for improving football- for him blame for more or less everything is laid at the door of FA. I dealt with much similar stuff a couple of weeks ago here: http://m71ohr.tumblr.com/post/39473336173/a-century-and-a-half-of-sweet-fa-a-reply but to re-iterate…
Football is more than just what the england national team do- it’s hundreds of thousands of players, coaches, officials and spectators every waking hour of every day. With the best will in the world the FA couldn’t possibly micromanage this. In my opinion it’s much more important that people are playing football on decent pitches with good coaches and excellent officials than it is for England to qualify. If the latter assists the former then all the better, but the main job of the FA is to help millions of english people to enjoy football in as many ways as possible; the majority of us should not feel that we have to be subservient to the minority of people who rabidly support the england national team and who’s only interested is in their success.
If you feel inclined, then please post a reply on the socialistunity website and help stop this madness
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The day I realised just how difficult it is to be a Premier League referee
After being put through my paces by ex-referee Dermot Gallagher – and having got a lot of decisions wrong – my admiration for match officials has gone up significantly
FA makes £150m pledge to improve run-down urban facilities
• FA hopes improved pitches will produce better players
• However Premier League unlikely to increase contribution
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A century and a half of sweet fa - a reply
Mark Perryman has written a wordy but essentially empty critique to mark the 150th anniversary of the FA at http://www.socialistunity.com/a-century-and-a-half-of-sweet-fa. I would have liked to have replied directly on that website, but such is the state of ‘socialism’ in 2013 it is unlikely that my comments would sneak through the censors beady eyes/enthusiastic delete key. So my reply is posted here. Mark makes generally worthy points, but the specifics of his proposals are stupid and he aims his fire generally at the wrong place.
