I’ve had it up to here with the top managers blaming refs for their teams shortcoming. The Respect the Refs campaign is floundering. The Pieman wants to introduce his Fair Play, mate code!
If those managers want the refs to be perfect, unlike their players! - and want to name and shame them then they also, under the Pieman's fair play mate code, have to publically name and shame their players who miss great scoring chances, make bad passes, mess up in defence, show dissent and cheat. By the way, there is as much chance of that happening as West Bromwich Albion winning the Premier League title...extremely slim and right now in both cases slim is out of town!
The latest manager to jump on the "the ref's to blame"- “It’s not my fault, guv" is the Chelsea boss Phil Scolari. He wants an apology from referee Mike Dean claiming Dean cost Chelsea a win over Arsenal. Chelsea lost 2-1. Scolari blamed Dean and lines man Simon Beck for failing to call Robin van Persie offside when he scored Arsenal's equaliser. In fairness they got it wrong but they don’t have action replays and called the way they saw it. Football bosses do not allow technology so mistakes will be made. Funnily enough the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, a serial moaner at refs during and after matches, did not complain! And the managers complain about referees being inconsistent!. Scolari said, "Never before at Chelsea have I said anything about the referee”. But today is different, only for him to look at the TV, see he was wrong and say sorry. Tell the assessor to ask the referee to do both sides, not one side. Arsenal scored a goal that was one metre ahead of our player, then the same linesman gave a decision against Kalou that was never offside. They made a mistake. They are not bad, I understand that. I don't want three points, I just want "sorry" because they made a mistake.
Well, Mr Scolari, perhaps you can say sorry for the fact that Chelsea only had one shot on target and how could you be sure that if he had not been ruled offside that Kalou would have scored. After all he has only netted two goals this season!
Its all a smokescreen, used regularly by Monsieur Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson to cover, in Chelsea's case the 12 points dropped at home including taking just the one point at home against the three other BIG FOUR teams, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal.
The Pieman is steaming! It’s getting boring. Managers blaming refs for everything. The matches last a minimum of 90 minutes and like you and your players the officials are not always perfect............
The Premier League table is so tight at all issues that it’s fair play to knee-jerk for many people. But not the Pieman, I say the real fair play, mate, is to be patient. Let’s get through to Easter time and see how it all shapes up then. Take Arsenal who have not won a major trophy for three years. Even some of their own fans are saying Arsene Wenger has lost the plot. Cobblers. Arsenal has done a great job for them in the past. He doesn’t lose it overnight.
Let’s have it right. Arsenal have qualified for the knock-out stage of the European Champions League with a game to spare; they are fourth in the Premier League and they are in the quarter finals of the Carling Cup when their brilliant youngsters take the field at Burnley. They have drawn Plymouth Argyle at home in the FA Cup and recently they have beaten both Manchester United and Chelsea but this has been masked by defeats at home to Aston Villa and away to Manchester City. Sir Alex was being doubted a couple of seasons ago when he didn't win a trophy (blow me how fickle and stupid can you get, doubting Sir Alex?) and Rafa has been under the cosh at Liverpool for only winning the European Champions League and FA Cup (only !)....its all crackers, mates. Fair play no one is really doubting either now and nor should they with Arsene!........
What is going on with Roy Keane? The Sunderland manager is having a recent bad run of defeats and he is deflecting the pressure by questioning his own future after the weekend's 4-1 home defeat by Bolton. Keane, who has not signed his new contract, said, "I ask myself every day if I'm the right man for Sunderland. I asked myself this morning and said I was. Sunday morning, if the answer's no we'll have to look at it." He went on: "I might wake up on Monday morning and think I am the right man, on Tuesday it might be different."
Steady on Roy, you are making the Pieman giddy. The Sunderland players made a lot of errors and were punished. But it’s a long old season. You have spent £80 million on new players and now you have to trim your playing squad and get rid of some. But you can get out of trouble. Stick by Sunderland. You have a great chairman in Niall Quinn…
The good news update is that today Roy Keane is not quitting and prepares his team for Manchester United away. Four successive home defeats; five defeats in the last six matches is panic time around but keep a cool head in the dressing room.....The question, if the bad results keep happening, will be: do the Board think Roy Keane is the right man? Hopefully it will not come to that.......
What was Ronaldo playing at - handling the ball from the corner at Eastlands, getting a second yellow (rightly) and being sent off. Unlucky on the first caution where I thought he may have had the benefit of the doubt. Second one I don't go with arguments of "heard a (phantom) whistle or "he was protecting his face"...
Little Histon, a Cambridgeshire village that once housed Jam manufacturers Chivers (XMAS puds, Old English Marmalade etc) knock-out once mighty Leeds United in the FA Cup second round. It was great drama on the telly with a postman scoring the only goal .Then it was anti-drama at the third round draw a few minutes later when they get Swansea at home instead of Manchester United. Why can't they go back to the traditional Monday lunchtime slot? Histon savour the win and then expectations of a fantastic draw...only for the players on the live dressing room shots looking like someone who had had their favourite pies badly cooked to a cinder! Hardly fair play mate.............
Too much news this edition. More funnies on the way on my next blog. The Pie Girls and myself are in the recording studios next week in London for our new record. The Pie Girls have asked for several things to be put in their dressing room. I just want some Pukka Pies.
One of the Pie Girls, probably Smita Gupta from Birmingham, will be reading some of your emails and texts on the next show. The Pie Girls are Bella Watson from Manchester, Carmen from Barcelona (no mentions of Manuel's granddaughter!), Ushi from Shanghai, Janet Eriksson (no relation but far better looking) from Southampton with a Swedish father, and Smita. They are right out of the Premier League school. The Pieman would not expect anything less. Fair play mate.
Bill Shankly quotes soon. The legendary Liverpool manager who once said: "Football is not a matter of life or death. It’s far more important than that."..............Stay with the Pieman!
If those managers want the refs to be perfect, unlike their players! - and want to name and shame them then they also, under the Pieman's fair play mate code, have to publically name and shame their players who miss great scoring chances, make bad passes, mess up in defence, show dissent and cheat. By the way, there is as much chance of that happening as West Bromwich Albion winning the Premier League title...extremely slim and right now in both cases slim is out of town!
The latest manager to jump on the "the ref's to blame"- “It’s not my fault, guv" is the Chelsea boss Phil Scolari. He wants an apology from referee Mike Dean claiming Dean cost Chelsea a win over Arsenal. Chelsea lost 2-1. Scolari blamed Dean and lines man Simon Beck for failing to call Robin van Persie offside when he scored Arsenal's equaliser. In fairness they got it wrong but they don’t have action replays and called the way they saw it. Football bosses do not allow technology so mistakes will be made. Funnily enough the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, a serial moaner at refs during and after matches, did not complain! And the managers complain about referees being inconsistent!. Scolari said, "Never before at Chelsea have I said anything about the referee”. But today is different, only for him to look at the TV, see he was wrong and say sorry. Tell the assessor to ask the referee to do both sides, not one side. Arsenal scored a goal that was one metre ahead of our player, then the same linesman gave a decision against Kalou that was never offside. They made a mistake. They are not bad, I understand that. I don't want three points, I just want "sorry" because they made a mistake.
Well, Mr Scolari, perhaps you can say sorry for the fact that Chelsea only had one shot on target and how could you be sure that if he had not been ruled offside that Kalou would have scored. After all he has only netted two goals this season!
Its all a smokescreen, used regularly by Monsieur Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson to cover, in Chelsea's case the 12 points dropped at home including taking just the one point at home against the three other BIG FOUR teams, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal.
The Pieman is steaming! It’s getting boring. Managers blaming refs for everything. The matches last a minimum of 90 minutes and like you and your players the officials are not always perfect............
The Premier League table is so tight at all issues that it’s fair play to knee-jerk for many people. But not the Pieman, I say the real fair play, mate, is to be patient. Let’s get through to Easter time and see how it all shapes up then. Take Arsenal who have not won a major trophy for three years. Even some of their own fans are saying Arsene Wenger has lost the plot. Cobblers. Arsenal has done a great job for them in the past. He doesn’t lose it overnight.
Let’s have it right. Arsenal have qualified for the knock-out stage of the European Champions League with a game to spare; they are fourth in the Premier League and they are in the quarter finals of the Carling Cup when their brilliant youngsters take the field at Burnley. They have drawn Plymouth Argyle at home in the FA Cup and recently they have beaten both Manchester United and Chelsea but this has been masked by defeats at home to Aston Villa and away to Manchester City. Sir Alex was being doubted a couple of seasons ago when he didn't win a trophy (blow me how fickle and stupid can you get, doubting Sir Alex?) and Rafa has been under the cosh at Liverpool for only winning the European Champions League and FA Cup (only !)....its all crackers, mates. Fair play no one is really doubting either now and nor should they with Arsene!........
What is going on with Roy Keane? The Sunderland manager is having a recent bad run of defeats and he is deflecting the pressure by questioning his own future after the weekend's 4-1 home defeat by Bolton. Keane, who has not signed his new contract, said, "I ask myself every day if I'm the right man for Sunderland. I asked myself this morning and said I was. Sunday morning, if the answer's no we'll have to look at it." He went on: "I might wake up on Monday morning and think I am the right man, on Tuesday it might be different."
Steady on Roy, you are making the Pieman giddy. The Sunderland players made a lot of errors and were punished. But it’s a long old season. You have spent £80 million on new players and now you have to trim your playing squad and get rid of some. But you can get out of trouble. Stick by Sunderland. You have a great chairman in Niall Quinn…
The good news update is that today Roy Keane is not quitting and prepares his team for Manchester United away. Four successive home defeats; five defeats in the last six matches is panic time around but keep a cool head in the dressing room.....The question, if the bad results keep happening, will be: do the Board think Roy Keane is the right man? Hopefully it will not come to that.......
What was Ronaldo playing at - handling the ball from the corner at Eastlands, getting a second yellow (rightly) and being sent off. Unlucky on the first caution where I thought he may have had the benefit of the doubt. Second one I don't go with arguments of "heard a (phantom) whistle or "he was protecting his face"...
Little Histon, a Cambridgeshire village that once housed Jam manufacturers Chivers (XMAS puds, Old English Marmalade etc) knock-out once mighty Leeds United in the FA Cup second round. It was great drama on the telly with a postman scoring the only goal .Then it was anti-drama at the third round draw a few minutes later when they get Swansea at home instead of Manchester United. Why can't they go back to the traditional Monday lunchtime slot? Histon savour the win and then expectations of a fantastic draw...only for the players on the live dressing room shots looking like someone who had had their favourite pies badly cooked to a cinder! Hardly fair play mate.............
Too much news this edition. More funnies on the way on my next blog. The Pie Girls and myself are in the recording studios next week in London for our new record. The Pie Girls have asked for several things to be put in their dressing room. I just want some Pukka Pies.
One of the Pie Girls, probably Smita Gupta from Birmingham, will be reading some of your emails and texts on the next show. The Pie Girls are Bella Watson from Manchester, Carmen from Barcelona (no mentions of Manuel's granddaughter!), Ushi from Shanghai, Janet Eriksson (no relation but far better looking) from Southampton with a Swedish father, and Smita. They are right out of the Premier League school. The Pieman would not expect anything less. Fair play mate.
Bill Shankly quotes soon. The legendary Liverpool manager who once said: "Football is not a matter of life or death. It’s far more important than that."..............Stay with the Pieman!
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