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So has he been sacked?

I suppose we await a ruling from the F.A. after F.I.F.A's report.

As a friend of mine is good mates with Graham P, I think a little balance is in order. He admitted within 10 minutes of the end of the game that he had cocked up, because he wrote down the Aussie number 3 rather than the Croat, and then when the Croat fouled again, didn't spot the error immediately. However compared to some of the other disasters during this world cup, he generally did OK.

As a sporting umpire (hockey, rugby), I always find it strange that players can make mistakes all the time with no comebacks, but the ref/umpire makes one error, and they are doomed for ever. Has no one heard of human frailty?

cstegerlewis wrote:As a friend of mine is good mates with Graham P, I think a little balance is in order. He admitted within 10 minutes of the end of the game that he had cocked up, because he wrote down the Aussie number 3 rather than the Croat, and then when the Croat fouled again, didn't spot the error immediately. However compared to some of the other disasters during this world cup, he generally did OK.

As a sporting umpire (hockey, rugby), I always find it strange that players can make mistakes all the time with no comebacks, but the ref/umpire makes one error, and they are doomed for ever. Has no one heard of human frailty?

I agree with your general point about human frailty but Graham Poll does not help himself by his flamboyant refereeing style. Hence the reaction to any of his errors is more marked perhaps than for others.

I was always taught that the sign of a good ref is that you don't know he is there. That can never be said of Graham Poll I'm afraid even when he has performed adequately or well.

Don't disagree with you there, his flourishes are often a point of discussion at the pub, especially amongst those who know him well!

As a fellow resident of Tring, I need to stick up for the locals though (he has pride of place of the front page of the local paper depite being sent home).

............ and talking of referee's.... we've drawn the very short straw for our game against Portugal !

Don't think he's forgotton the Falklands War, and he's definitely NOT a fan of David Beckham !

ahem....Collina

This didn't take long did it?

I have SO MANY j.peg funnies relating to the world cup.

I just wish there was an easy way to up-load them on this site.

J.R. wrote:I have SO MANY j.peg funnies relating to the world cup.

I just wish there was an easy way to up-load them on this site.

there is, rtbs here.

viewtopic.php?t=70

Right !

I've registered with sick-bucket, or whatever,

AND

have downloaded Resizer from Microsoft, so may give it a try later.

Watch this space.........................

.....watching.....

englishangel wrote:.....watching.....

Found it far too slow up and downloading, so I've sent 4 pics of The Retreat to our esteemed webmaster, so we await his presence !