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some praise for my personal fav


Mr.Howard Webb
Howard Melton Webb (born July 14, 1971) is an English football referee who operates in the Premier League and has been a FIFA-listed referee since 2005. He lives in Rotherham, Yorkshire.His other occupation is as a sergeant in Sheffield 1 South Sector SNA of the South Yorkshire Police. (wiki-ripoff)

aside from reminding me of the great Italian ref mr.colinsmthng from the appearance the Englishmen just give me the feeling he had "i'm the law" tattooed on his forehead in the match he officials. the million dollar player seems to moan less and the managers divert their barking on the 4th official more, prefer to play the advantage and let the game play on then blow the whistle every 5mins, i like the bloke alot

This post has been edited by Halfhearted04: Mar 11 2008, 05:46 PM

Howard Webb is my favourite Premiership referee as well.

As for world favourite, it was to be the infallible Pierluigi Collina!

With the EPL being a more physical league, stronger referees are needed.

i hope the fa or raf committee would let him official those big match more. although he is still rather young compare to other epl ref but i rarely see him get the big decision wrong. i just hate the way certain senior epl ref would pus$y under pressure of bigstar player or top manager. disgraceful as well with the players and managers trying to "work" the official of the match these day ..

the FA should stop punishing managers for their comments on referees

Managers dont give comments just for fun. Im still pissed at the douche referee that sent off kuzschack

men in black is not what we call a ref nowadays. men in fluorescent maybe. haha

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Added on March 10, 2008, 3:06 pmyes.. at first i thought it is baros who will get yellow card for diving. Another example, when referee giving hleb a yellow card for diving when it is so obvious that nesta got a contact with hleb feet.

This post has been edited by Apis_LuaLua: Mar 10 2008, 03:06 PM

Can any one show me a nice video of Howard Webb? Never knew this guy...

some reff even wear pink shirt(Serie A)
my faveret reff Markus Merk and Andres Frisk

Never knew?? which football league are u into? seria A, la liga? bundesliga? or Malaysian Super League??

Serie A and MSL lol...

talking about Malaysian reff,some reff which is Leftanen from ATM take part as linesman in WC1998 England vs Argentina
i think his name is Lt Abdul Halim

then, u should watch BPL games more.. only then u will know him. heh

collina is the man!!!! rob styles is a joke!

graham poll....
he's da man... 3 yellow cards...
hahah..

well, i think collina is da best referee...
the fair guy..

a malaysian ref shoot his gunfire during game when the players argue...news this year...

3 yellow cards

Before Poll started to make silly mistakes, he used to be one of the better referees out there.

Uriah Renie was quite good too in recent years. And does anyone remember Jeff Winter?

Crap ones in EPL would be Steve Bennet and Mike Riley.

henry had quite a bust up with graham poll after the newcastle game in iinm season 01/02. was banned 3 matches.

Pierluigi Collina is the all-time favourite ref.

Btw,He's retired already?

Remember the match between liverpool and chelsea where ref Rob Styles accidentally given a wrong penalty which caused Liverpool to lose 2 points...During that time, i remember most of the reds fans are blaming Rob Styles for causing us drop 2 points and Pako to quarrel with Rafa and left reds....

Most of the other teams supporters said we are juz giving excuse for our own team for not winning the game...and now, i keep hearing those ppl that accused us of giving excuses are actually BLAMING referee for their cup defeat/ losing point in bpl title race...


and when rafa blamed the referee for not protecting Torres(in reading match..carling cup match), many of you out there said rafa is giving too much excuse on media...and now, i heard those ppl complaining that the referee aint giving enuff protection for their star in team...

I juz wan to ask u all....dont u guys think tats funny?I'm not trying to start a flaming war or wat..I juz wan u guys to know IF U CAN COMPLAIN, WHY CAN'T US?

Juz curious...

retired already... still involved in football as non-paid consultant to the Italian Football Referees Association (AIA)

Yup, and that was one of the memorable moments as Titi stood up for himself and the team, but too bad no one can challenge the authorities without getting away.

No one said you can't complain

This happens to every team, every manager, and every fan. Arsene and Arsenal gets blasted everytime whenever they complain about the incompetency of the referee, no matter the accusations are true or false. Ferguson got the same treatment last weekend when MU lost in the FA Cup...

This kind of thing happens. Don't fret over what other fans say, just keep on supporting your team.

Pierluigi Collina was quite an exciting person to be refereeing a match..

i love his expressions, too bad he's now retired

he become the adviser or similar to that post and officially retired from playing on the pitch.. i like his style.. i like his whistle.. he's fair

Remember the goal Mike Riley celebrated?

Was about 10 seasons ago if I am not wrong...Liverpool vs dunno who d lar...Berger scored and Mike Riley threw up his hands (smiling as well)...man that was funny...he's not a Liverpool fan, the reason he gave was that he played advantage prior to Berger scoring, so...

Yeah, would love to see that again...

LoL time to bump thread

what an awful 2nd yellow card given to Nicolas Burdisso. the refee should be considering burdisso intentionally left his trailing leg to bring down lucas :/

Awful decision from Ref.

2nd that, but for me, it wasn't fair or not fair.. its about killing the game!

its always a god damn shame when the officials want to be the "MAN" of the match

what was it? 10 yellow 1 red card and not a single (really)bad tackle by my count

The eduodor(dunno hw to spell ) case make those referees aware i think...

EDUARDO DA SILVA...

first half chelsea mr.riley have once lived up to his "reputation" thats how official lose the match spurs and chelsea players obviously not going to pay any attention to him for the next 45mins. more fireworks to come for the second half

ya a.cole was absolutely going for the leg and he got yellow card only .case done don doubt anymore bout FA referee's professionalism

Cole deserved the red card, even though I am a chelsea fan, no doubt bout it...

much like ROB the `robber` STYLES huh??

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just want to say i think Bennet had an excellent game last night

and tough game also...