Good old Amy

[Hempstead Gaz]

Hardly an exclusive to those of us who have witnessed her incompetence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/6116572.stm

[Harry J Allstars]

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Mike Newell said:
"She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist, but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that.
"We have a problem in this country with political correctness, and bringing women into the game is absolutely beyond belief.

"It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems.

"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism for the politically-correct idiots."

That sort of comment doesn't help though. It has nothing to do with her being female, she's just a crap referee.

[jc]

Given that she's only ever refereed a couple of northern away games for us, that doesn't apply to many of us.

 

Disgraceful comments from Newell - so, because one female official makes a bad decision against his team, all female officials must be rubbish. Excellent logic.

[Harry J Allstars]

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Chatham Gary said:
Hardly an exclusive to those of us who have witnessed her incompetence.

"Those of us that have witnessed her incompetence"? That rules you out then. Or no hang on a minute you heard it on the radio so that means, in Chatham Gary Land, that you saw it.

[seaviewred]

She's a crap female referee, the sooner we get rid of people with this new man/ metrosexual attitude maybe we could get back to proper football with bone crunching tackles and punch ups on proper terracing, harry dont get drawn into all this political correctness crap. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

[coupwotcoup]

..and they get every fourth week off. Send 'em back to the kitchen sink.

[Slartibartfast]

A womans place is in the wrong.

[Hempstead Gaz]

Except my wife keeps telling me she is right, even when she is wrong.

[jc]

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seaviewred said: political correctness

Bringing up this term automatically loses one the argument in my view.

Has it 'gone mad'? Go on, you know you want to say it.

On another note, not rising to Harry's bait, then, Gary?

[jc]

Further to the debate about Amy, hoagy on confguide speaks the most sense I've heard on the subject thus far:

 

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hoagy said:It's as ridiculous as saying black people shouldn't officiate games, and no-one would have stood for that.

[Hempstead Gaz]

No need to, JC. Harry would argue black is white, and start an arguement in an empty room. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Harry J Allstars]

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Chatham Gary said:
No need to, JC. Harry would argue black is white, and start an arguement in an empty room. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

So would you if you heard someone on the radio say it.

Stop spouting rubbish on stuff you haven't seen and I'd have no arguement.

[Slartibartfast]

Quote:

Harry J Allstars said:

Quote:

Chatham Gary said:
No need to, JC. Harry would argue black is white, and start an arguement in an empty room. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

So would you if you heard someone on the radio say it.

Stop spouting rubbish on stuff you haven't seen and I'd have no arguement.

Yeah, stick to spouting rubbish on stuff you have seen like Harry. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applaus.gif" alt="" />

[kmj]

There is a saying that " walls have ears". Do your walls also have eyes then Gary?

[Wobbly Wayne rides again]

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" walls have ears".

 

I thought they would do better sticking to ice cream and lollies.

 

 

 

Up the Fleet .

 

 

Only seen Amy referee once and she lost control fairly quickly . Not neccessarily due to poor decisions but to players lack of respect. Which is not only a problem with women officials but all officials whom may know the laws but have no appreciation of how to play the game.

[Stu M]

I can't help but feel that this statement is, however, entirely wrong:

 

 

"English football needs more Amy Rayners."

Referees' chief Neale Barry

 

 

More women, possibly.

 

More Amy Rayners. Definitely not.

[Slartibartfast]

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kmj said:
There is a saying that " walls have ears".

Probably the worst flavoured ice cream ever....apart from pistachio obviously.

[jc]

Newell says sorry

 

Given that Newell explicitly described himself as a 'sexist', you have to wonder how heartfelt this apology really is.