When you bring money into the game of football, you also bring politics into it too.
I watch most of the spanish games that are on sky, take the real madrid match last night for example.
Raul was tugged outside the box, the infridgment clearly started outside the box, yet in his wisdom, the referee chose to award Real Madrid a penalty.
As a referee i would love to say that Spanish referee's are not biased, although i tend to feel that from what i have witnessed, those people who shout about the top two teams getting favours may well have enough evidence to make a convincing case.
Is the Spanish league dirtier? and are the referee's poorer?
I watched spanish games where i would have given out about 8 yellow cards yet the referee has only brandished two. other games i tend to agree with the referee's handling of the game, that being said, both the spanish league and Premiership are guilty of being too lenient of one offence.....dissent.
I have watched far too many games where Spanish players have surrounded the referee and tried to intmidate him with their antics and the referee hasn't done anything about it....thus sending out the message to the amateur leagues that it is Okay to try and intimidate referee's.
Other players have used hand gestures and shouted at the referee in a manner that is clear dissent and yet the referee chose to do nothing. In the premiership it is even worse, i have watched players blatantly argue with referee's and the walk away and mouth (clearly for the camera) That is a fuc*ing sh*t decision.
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Rooney should have been sent off a couple of years ago for his antics with one of the referee's and didn't even get a yellow card.
Although the thing that is creeping into the game is blatant diving, Fifa brought in the rule about simulation to stop this happening, some referee's in Spain are actually cautioning for diving, but in England you would think the rule didn't exist.
Christiano Ronaldo's first season saw him lying flat on his face more times than he managed to stay on his feet, between fellow referee's and i, we would discuss how whenever ronaldo got anywhere near the 18 yard box he dropped like a stone without even a hint of contact.
discussion through the rank and file of referee's have highlighted the need for professional referee's to be tougher on certain decisions although it seems that some referee's want to shy away from inforcing the rules that they are paid to enforce.
maybe some of the supporters of the professional teams should take a trip down to their public park and count the number of cards that an amateur referee dishes out in any given match then maybe they might stop all the conspiracy theory nonsense....
