Poor Refereeing In European Football: What's Your Take?

Every now and then, we bash the referees in the EPL and we
are quick to conclude that English referees are crap.

Watching other leagues, shocking decisions are made week in
week out.

Refereeing decisions were one of the highlights of the semi final
UCL matches.

What's gone wrong with the referees?

People bash the English referees. I think its a bigger problem than
that.

Em referees are human beings prone to human error.
English referees get criticised more because more people watch the EPL than other European leagues.
If a referee makes a wrong decision in a game involving Sunderland and Hull(we are dead cert to know about it).
If another referee makes a worse decision in a game involving Osasuna and Numancia. . . .Who cares??

Poor refereeing even out in a game an undeserved red card and no one is complaining why are EPL teams so classless

The same way Arsenal was complaining that Lehmanns sending off was responsible for losing in Paris.

Thiery had 2 good chances to bury the game at Parc de prince and later was complaining about ref.

Wenger was complaining Etoo goal was laid off by Larson in an offside position
Henry complained he was fouled by Barcas players
Fans complained that the red card to Lehmann made them lose.
Chelsea complaining about Handballs.

Why didnt Chelsea players complain when Abidal was sent off and Chiellini was sent off?

Chelsea should blame themselves for not wrapping the game up when they had presentable chances

SHAMELESS PEOPLE

Victory to the ANGLOPHOBES!!!!!!

Just like Jose Mourinho and Chelsea were moaning that Anders Frisk spoke to the ref in 2005.

Cant English sides but moan about officiating?

they should be banned for life but again, teams should learn to finish off opponents with every opportunity they have. When they don't refs will always be blamed. They suck anyway.

im lost. Is this what the OP asked?

Bad decisions on the REFs part is the topic of convo.
No one is talking about Chelsea or Barca.

read b4 you post

@Topic
The 2 semis were bedevilled by very poor officiating and it goes beyond errors.
Some european REFs are as worse as the heavily criticisized English REFs
How do you explain the RED to Fletcher? The free kick to CR7 that led to the goal, The countless penalties that were overlooked by the REF against Chelsea and also why did the RED give a RED to Abidal.

If those are not poor officiating, then somebody needs his brain checked.
I guess those will pass as poor officiating when the English people are in charge but will be called human errors when thier european counterparts are blowing the whistle.

Some brains need surgery!!

thank u

not necessary to this topic
we aint discussing chances not converted.
was the REF poor?  Thats the QUE

Drogba should be ashamed of himself, with all the clear chances he threw away, disgracing africa with that ungodly manner, he should have let guss do the ranting, he wasn't even on the pitch, why didn't the english players on the field do the ranting??

now he has spoilt his name the more on european scene,  remember manu chelsea last year?



that ref was just too frightened to blow well lol

check your head
im not contesting why Chelsea lost.
We are discussing if the REF was bad with his officiating
Nobody is asking if the officiating cost them the game.

simple thing
was that a good officiating? Yes or NO
Man UTD won the game but we all the know REF made bad calls when he sent off Fletcher and when he gave a freekick that led to the goal.
We are not talking about the outcome of the matches but some of the actions taken by the REFs
Despicable is the word

If you want to see terrible referees, come to La Liga,  that is their headquarters. 

I think it is part and parcel of the game,  It is never ALWAYS in favour of one team over another. They have a way of leveling out and overall everyone "benefits" and "suffers" from it. Somtimes it is in your favour and other times not. Chelsea can not honestly claim they have never won a game because of bad ref decisions that favoured them. Same as any other team

i used to thinK EPL Referees were useless until yesterday.
Ovrebo is total shye. for the main fact that he's from Norway wHere their league is secondary school football
and for the secondary fact that the modafucka is a PSYCHOLOGIST !!! 

WHO WAS HE PLAYING HIS ''MIND GAMES'' ON WHEN HE REFUSED TO AWARD THOSE PENALTIES.

DID HE THINK HE WAS HAVING A FUCKN SESSION WITH LUNATICS ON THE PITCH???

Is that DK's new title? 

I think the game is getting too big and too serious to allow
part time referees to handle them alone.

Assistant referees should get more involved with the use of
technology.

na u sabi. na the only thing u fit talk be dat
hater

I think the FA should have red and yellow card for referees should they begin to mess up a match.
This is also a good case for the introduction of the video technology!!