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@pats wrote:

anyone watch?
sprised the chef wotsiface came bottom. i expected the old bloke john gaunt. that tom bloke from holby city as phwoar hips :P an the rugger player.how good was he!

Do you really think I’m deperate and sad enough to sit in front of a boob tube watching “celebrities” make fools of themselves?!? :?

If Jon Gaunt is on it I’ll definitely be watching it.
When’s it on ???

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@*Sian wrote:

I voted yes but I do also think it should be on at a later time.

And in doing so hide it away from the kids?

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:roll: synthesizer music?

When do we have the Stock, Aitken and Waterman thread? :?

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Has pete posted here yet?? :P

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@catz wrote:

Hmmm …

I’d invite
Sian
Rainny
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Geoffrey (whatever his JC name is now)

I think that would make for a truly entertaining evening. :twisted:

Sorry, I’m washing my hair that night. :?

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@toybulldog wrote:

I remember Gordon Hill the Ref and not the Man Utd player, and Jack Taylor who gave that disputed penalty to the Dutch in the 74 World Cup Final, although as the Germans won that game he largely escaped censure. And Clive Thomas of course, he was a character.

The last manager whose teams truly respected the ref was Cloughie I think. What is the point of arguing anyway when decisions are (almost) never overturned. Or a player having a big tantrum in front of millions when the cameras can show they were entirely in the wrong within seconds. How bloody juvenile is that ?

Player antics these days make the game less interesting and not more so, in my humble opinion. Like Ashley Cole turning his back on the official in the game at White Hart Lane last season; it makes me almost want to have to slightly criticise the wife-cheating two-faced greedy little bastad.

They say it’s not easy being a ref these days but at least theyy’re not fighting a war in Iraq aew they?

Onr of my footballing fantasies was to have refereed a Man United team that had Roy Keane in it.
And then to have awarded a penalty at Old Trafford to the opposition.
Going face to face with Keane would’ve been a pleasure.
The toerag that he is.

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@toybulldog wrote:

@toybulldog wrote:

We can probably all agree that there was a lot more respect from players in the old days, grudging or otherwise, for the man in the middle.

yeah ok.

My old headmaster was a Football League referee in the 1970s.
His name was Gordon Hill and while we were at school the News of the World named him as the referee who was most respected by the players.

He used to tell us some great stories.
He once called Billy Bremner to one side after a bad tackle and told him that the Leeds United poster in his son’s bedroom was being taken down that night.

It shut Bremner up a treat.
Gill knew how to handle people and although he was prone to a few errors – he once disallowed a perfectly good Arsenal goal he earned respect.
And the players who respected him were the bad boys of those days.

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@toybulldog wrote:

@sword wrote:

Can’t say I saw anything different today from any other game. Have to say, Peter is very correct. I think we believe refs always used to be better when the truth of the matter may well be that they never really changed, tv did.

Thats probably true. Of course the game used to be played at a slower pace, and although the refs are fitter now, I dare say the quality of their eyesight hasn’t improved that much. We can probably all agree that there was a lot more respect from players in the old days, grudging or otherwise, for the man in the middle.

Astounding amounts of money and media coverage make it a lot harder for refs to have the kind of good game when you hardly notice them, as almost everything becomes a talking point now. But Riley is poor.

Arsene Wenger has proposed two referees, operating in each half as in basketball. Given the increased speed and athleticism of the modern game that might be a better solution than goal-line judges.

I don’t totally agree with the points you make.
A lot of referees are conned by players to such an extent that it’s becoming farcical.

Steve Bennett was made to look amateurish iby the antics of some Chelsea players n a Cup tie between Chelseas and Newcastle once.

Three times the Chelsea players dived to earn not only free kicks but cautions for the Newcastle players.

One Newcastle player was even sent off after Wright-Phillips made an outrageous dive.

Even John Terry had to question the cheating of his fellow team mate, Didier Drogba.

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@sharongooner wrote:

wierd… I can see myself taking that pic in the pic… see it?!

lol I see it.
Nice pic and if it was in the newspaper all the better.

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