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FootballcrazyP_ said:
All I will say is, some people have let the club down on Twitter with the vile comments made. Calling her a S**g, because she had a bad game is bang out of order.
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So is calling a male ref - some who was 'Born out of Wedlock' - acceptable?
Of course not.... but calling him a "Lad who puts it about " or " Bit of a Ladies Man" doesn't cut it , either. Those expressions of address meaning that their morals are, er "liberal" are exceptable , in the right setting.
I suppose S**g is simply the equivalent, for women.
They are all meant to upset the person who you are addressing, from the 'safety' of the crowd.
And if she can't stand the heat, as per a male ref not being able to take the crowd calling him a Ba***Rd - they should pack it in.
And she should pack it in , for not addressing the Wednesday goalkeeper, who was clearly taking the p**s out of her.
 
wld said:
Positive action is legal ie allow additional help to be provided for groups with a protected characteristic such as sex or race.
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Positive action yes, positive discrimination not.
 
noelpne said:
So is calling a male ref - some who was 'Born out of Wedlock' - acceptable?
Of course not.... but calling him a "Lad who puts it about " or " Bit of a Ladies Man" doesn't cut it , either. Those expressions of address meaning that their morals are, er "liberal" are exceptable , in the right setting.
I suppose S**g is simply the equivalent, for women.
They are all meant to upset the person who you are addressing, from the 'safety' of the crowd.
And if she can't stand the heat, as per a male ref not being able to take the crowd calling him a Ba***Rd - they should pack it in.
And she should pack it in , for not addressing the Wednesday goalkeeper, who was clearly taking the p**s out of her.
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All referees need a thick skin she will need it to be even thicker.
 
noelpne said:
So is calling a male ref - some who was 'Born out of Wedlock' - acceptable?
Of course not.... but calling him a "Lad who puts it about " or " Bit of a Ladies Man" doesn't cut it , either. Those expressions of address meaning that their morals are, er "liberal" are exceptable , in the right setting.
I suppose S**g is simply the equivalent, for women.
They are all meant to upset the person who you are addressing, from the 'safety' of the crowd.
And if she can't stand the heat, as per a male ref not being able to take the crowd calling him a Ba***Rd - they should pack it in.
And she should pack it in , for not addressing the Wednesday goalkeeper, who was clearly taking the p**s out of her.
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They not even comparable. a S**g is someone that Sleeps around, not someone born out of wedlock. S**g is gender specific where as B***ard is Gender Neutral. B***ard has several meanings. He's/she's a Lying B***ard or cheating B***ard etc an despicable act or term for out of Wedlock.
 
noelpne said:
So is calling a male ref - some who was 'Born out of Wedlock' - acceptable?
Of course not.... but calling him a "Lad who puts it about " or " Bit of a Ladies Man" doesn't cut it , either. Those expressions of address meaning that their morals are, er "liberal" are exceptable , in the right setting.
I suppose S**g is simply the equivalent, for women.
They are all meant to upset the person who you are addressing, from the 'safety' of the crowd.
And if she can't stand the heat, as per a male ref not being able to take the crowd calling him a Ba***Rd - they should pack it in.
And she should pack it in , for not addressing the Wednesday goalkeeper, who was clearly taking the p**s out of her.
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You sound like a sore loser picking on the ref. I didnt notice their keeper wasting time simply because I was wishing the game over. Another 4 minutes with 4 more crosses would have sent me into a coma. She wasnt half as bad as is being suggested. When you have someone breaking the mould in a profession where the standard quite frankly is terrible, we should be giving leeway and support. Much like you encourage a young player on his debut. Not approaches that are common in our leery thickheaded sport. But it would be good to see.
 
Footie fans will always be slow to adapt to something new, it was the same when Black players frst started to appear in the game, banaas thrown on the pitch, inflatable nanas in the crowd, monkey noises etc etc.

Now nobody, bar the real knuckle draggers, even notices the ethnicity of a player. Itll be the same with female refs, right now they will be held to far higher standards than their male counterparts. the ironing board quip shows this, hey he thought it was funny 🙂 soon female refs will just be refs, just as Black players are now just players.

Change eh? 😂
 
There were a few yellows she missed, Bannons foul on Browne, a late challenge on Whatmough, a rugby tackle on Millar and Mads being pulled back to prevent a break. She had no interest in stopping the timewasting , choosing to turn her back instead, I thought there was a directive to speed the game up? The bookings for Ched and Potts were hardly showing dissent and she was too far away to hear what they said, if anything. She didn’t book the Wednesday keeper when he ran 40 yards to confront her after the red card.
 
Pilot said:
There were a few yellows she missed, Bannons foul on Browne, a late challenge on Whatmough, a rugby tackle on Millar and Mads being pulled back to prevent a break. She had no interest in stopping the timewasting , choosing to turn her back instead, I thought there was a directive to speed the game up? The bookings for Ched and Potts were hardly showing dissent and she was too far away to hear what they said, if anything. She didn’t book the Wednesday keeper when he ran 40 yards to confront her after the red card.
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Their keeper was booked for that, but could have easily had a 2nd for the timewasting
 
Good job they added 'To Referee' after the chants' Your not fit' - that would have been sexist!!!

She started off ok but things got out of control and she ended up being very poor.
As others have said, as are a lot of referees.
And to further agree with others, the linesman on the Finney was terrible, he gave her no help whatsoever and looked totally out of his depth. She kept looking at him for help and he was useless, too many incidents to recite but one blatant throw in down the line that he had the clearest view of he was looking at her to make the decision from yards away and at a bad angle.
I think he was only about 17 so that must have been another box ticked!!
 
Pilot said:
There were a few yellows she missed, Bannons foul on Browne, a late challenge on Whatmough, a rugby tackle on Millar and Mads being pulled back to prevent a break. She had no interest in stopping the timewasting , choosing to turn her back instead, I thought there was a directive to speed the game up? The bookings for Ched and Potts were hardly showing dissent and she was too far away to hear what they said, if anything. She didn’t book the Wednesday keeper when he ran 40 yards to confront her after the red card.
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Evans wasn’t cautioned, their keeper was for a combination of the incident you mention and time wasting. Osmajic chased after her showing clear dissent and Potts was jumping up and down in front of the linesman - both totally justified cautions.
 
FootballcrazyP_ said:
They not even comparable. a S**g is someone that Sleeps around, not someone born out of wedlock.
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I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear ...I'm sure we both knew this. My poor sentance construction, then.

FootballcrazyP_ said:
S**g is gender specific
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Yes, agreed, hence my then going on about 'Ladies Man' & 'Putting it around a bit' - being the male equivalent of a woman with rather Liberal mores. A S**g. But there will always be S**gs. And B****rds. And enen the relatively mild "Ladies Man" ( not that this expression would even become popular, because it sounds so awkward - even if it IS the direct male equivalent of a S**g ! )
FootballcrazyP_ said:
where as B***ard is Gender Neutral. B***ard has several meanings. He's/she's a Lying B***ard or cheating B***ard etc an despicable act or term for out of Wedlock.
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All true ...and crowds saying that to refs is an established 'custom' . And this kind of abuse probably gets shown to boxing & wrestling referees AND to the two competitors as well.
Possibly all at the same time !
 
noelpne said:
I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear ...I'm sure we both knew this. My poor sentance construction, then.


Yes, agreed, hence my then going on about 'Ladies Man' & 'Putting it around a bit' - being the male equivalent of a woman with rather Liberal mores. A S**g. But there will always be S**gs. And B****rds. And enen the relatively mild "Ladies Man" ( not that this expression would even become popular, because it sounds so awkward - even if it IS the direct male equivalent of a S**g ! )

All true ...and crowds saying that to refs is an established 'custom' . And this kind of abuse probably gets shown to boxing & wrestling referees AND to the two competitors as well.
Possibly all at the same time !
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Right, No one is calling Referee Ladies Man. Calling him a w*nker, in slang means he can't be trusted. It also means someone who masturbates and so on. However, I would also call out people that called a Referee a Racist term, a term about their sexual orientation or calling them a term that is calling him a male/female s**g. Calling one a slang term, meaning untrusting, means just that, you find them un-trustable. You don't, can't find their judgement trusting. This is why the Chant the Referee a w*nker has never been questioned, because of it's meaning in slang and wouldn't stand up in court. There is no need for the S word, no matter how bad or biased she may have been. Calling her a w*nker, would be the same as calling a male referee one, you find them un-trustable. But moving on, some have crossed a line and its been called out. Don't do it.
 
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