Sums up utterly how most of us feel currently, no one ‘really’ wants us to part company with Flynn, but it appears our players have to virtually ‘go against instructions’ in order for us to think about scoring goals.
Great win by the way, missed the second half completely, out at a 75th birthday bash.
Typical, the day when we actually score AND win at last!
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This is an interesting article about referees and VAR
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Could be one his last player ratings by the looks of it
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Bizarre.
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8 game ban, seems incredibly lenient. Expected him to be banned for this season and a significant chunk of next season, quite a few on social media seemed to be demanding a life ban.
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A life ban, jeez. Seems to be the way of the world these days. Ruin people forever for making a mistake. I’m sure those calling for that have never made any mistakes in the heat of the moment.
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Agree i would have banned him until the end of season, 8 game ban will make him wince a bit, but trust me, he will do something similar in future
8 games is pretty much until the end of the season. Couple of games left after that maybe.
I’m fine with that, and if he does do something similar again then obviously it becomes more serious.
I just don’t like the way the world seems to be these days where someone makes a mistake and there are calls for them to be finished for life. I don’t just mean football. If they are given a second chance and do the same again, well that becomes a different matter.
For what it’s worth if they had made an example of Bruno Fernandes just before this incident it may have stopped it.
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The football authorities are so weak. They let the Fernandes incident go, but then were forced to act in the case of the much worse Mitrovic incident, but they have just made themselves look a bit daft, again. One player gets away with it, the other has the book thrown at him.
I saw a bit of a televised game over the weekend, only a few minutes and I don’t know which it was, maybe Liverpool and City, but several players were surrounding the ref, and instead of giving out five or six yellow cards he just backed away, it was pathetic. Just stand up to the players, give them cards immediately, first offence, and the nonsense might stop, or at least it will be vastly reduced.
We need Ray Graydon in charge of the game, he’d sort the blighters out.
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Of course the argument on behalf of the players is that they are emotionally supercharged, ultra competitive athletes, so it’s to be expected that they occasionally lose control.
Which of course is absolute b#$lloc#s and just serves to excuse their self righteous, spoilt behaviour.
There are always comparisons between the way referees are viewed in rugby and football.
Anyone who has been to a live rugby game and has heard the almighty bone crunching noise when players collide, (even above the noise of 80,000 spectators) cannot dispute the supercharged, emotionally competitive environment they are playing in.
Just like in football, rugby referee’s can get decisions wrong and yet the players, even when they know they are right, suck it up, maybe a smile or a look of bemusement and then move on.
When they do step out of line, they are punished, without the histrionics from other players.
There is a respect for referees.
Referees have to be supported more in punishing any sign of dissent. Even if it means handing out several cards at a time to any player or management team that attempt to pressure the referee.
Maybe referees might be able to concentrate on managing the game rather than dealing with extreme ‘gamesmanship’.
The game cannot exist without referees and yet the significant reduction in referees at grass roots level, where the behaviours are worse and the threat of violence increasing, is being ignored. If they don’t sort it out from the top level down, the game will sleepwalk into a significant referee crisis.
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The FA is appealing the ban for being unduly lenient.
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The appeals panel room……always a tough place to go.
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Especially when a debrief is taking place, I’m also led to believe that the evidence regarding the incident from the travelling gate will be crucial and that Flynn has been requested to attend to deliver a boisterous reading of the riot act.
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In the event that the travelling gate has a lock on it that won’t open, Hutchinson should be able to sort it, although he usually specialises in doors rather than gates.
Alex Scott on the wireless saying the ban needs to be longer to maintain standards across both the men’s and women’s games and Mitrovic needs to be ‘held to account’.
Do you still have a radiogram at Crod Towers? Or maybe a crystal set to pick up long wave?
Crystal meth, more like,
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