Referee dropped after penalty howler

Mon, August 20th 2007

Referees’ chief Keith Hackett says Rob Styles will not take charge of a match next weekend following his performance during the game between Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield on Sunday.

You can have sympathy for officials who fail to see a offence, but when they see the incident and get it wrong it is probably time for them to have a rest. Maybe we need substitutions for referees…

From: The Telegraph

Listed in: Competitions, Premiership, Teams, Chelsea, Liverpool

Comments

The problem is that the referee is only dropped for one weekend according to Keith Hackett. I assume he will come back again the next round of matches - but will be any better?

Chall at 6:35 AM on Tuesday, August 21, 2007

You’re right. Its more like a player getting suspended, than being ‘dropped’. I think if the referee scores continually poorly then he eventually gets relegated to lower league games, but I don’t know when they do this - its a long time until the end of the season…

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 8:30 AM on Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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