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Cannot WAIT for the day that this headline hungry PRICK no longer dons the black outfit
Premiership referee Graham Poll has confirmed his retirement date.
Next week's Euro 2008 qualifier between Finland and Belgium will be the last game the 43-year-old will referee.
The Tring official will perhaps be best remembered for showing Croatia's Josip Simunic three yellow cards before sending him off at the 2006 World Cup.
A statement from the Professional Game Match Officials read: "The PGMO can confirm it has received, and accepted, Graham Poll's resignation."
Poll began refereeing in the Premiership in 1995 and has also officiated at Euro 2000, the 2002 and 2006 World Cups.
He also took charge of the 2000 FA Cup final and bowed out of the English game after refereeing Monday's Championship play-off final between Derby and West Brom at Wembley
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True Nozza, despite the criticism here, over his career I think he was one of the better refs out there. Next time Phil Dowd refs a game people will realise how good Poll was
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Poll was the best referee that this country has produced for years - most of the rest of the current crop are pygmies by comparison. I do rate Halsey though - and Peter Walton (who lives in my village, incidentally!)
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Poll the best ref??? This is a guy whose ego is bigger than Anelka's and Bellamy's combined. The offical that couldn't keep track of his bookings on the biggest stage. The man who is now blaming everyone but himself for going early. He epitomised everything that is wrong with referees.
Poll the best ref??? This is a guy whose ego is bigger than Anelka's and Bellamy's combined. The offical that couldn't keep track of his bookings on the biggest stage. The man who is now blaming everyone but himself for going early. He epitomised everything that is wrong with referees.
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Talk to referees and ask how they rate him. Not just PL referees, but others at various levels of the pyramid. I value their opinions, because they do the job. Most rate him highly.
I'm not trying to defend some of his mistakes - but we are all prone to mistakes, on occasion.
I'm not trying to defend some of his mistakes - but we are all prone to mistakes, on occasion.
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Present company excepted.Zulus Thousand of em wrote:Talk to referees and ask how they rate him. Not just PL referees, but others at various levels of the pyramid. I value their opinions, because they do the job. Most rate him highly.
I'm not trying to defend some of his mistakes - but we are all prone to mistakes, on occasion.
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Indeed!CrazyHorse wrote:Present company excepted.Zulus Thousand of em wrote:Talk to referees and ask how they rate him. Not just PL referees, but others at various levels of the pyramid. I value their opinions, because they do the job. Most rate him highly.
I'm not trying to defend some of his mistakes - but we are all prone to mistakes, on occasion.
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This thread has really made me laugh,all you experts out there who know every single rule...........
Has any of you ever tried refereeing a football match?? I have,in the Bolton Sunday League,when the guy who was supposed to do it did not turn up.
It was the hardest thing I have ever done, (well, apart from trying to chew a steak in "Cotton Kier").
Just keeping up with play was a major feat,and this was with 22 half pissed cloggers,not super fit athletes, who can ping the ball from one end to the other in seconds, AND who have perfected cheating to an art form.
Like everybody else,I have screamed abuse at refs and linesmen, week in, week out, but we must always remember that these guys make honest mistakes, just like the rest of us..........................
APART FROM YOU RILEY YOU C**T !!!!!!!!!! AND AS FOR YOU KNIGHT,YOU UTTER T**T
Has any of you ever tried refereeing a football match?? I have,in the Bolton Sunday League,when the guy who was supposed to do it did not turn up.
It was the hardest thing I have ever done, (well, apart from trying to chew a steak in "Cotton Kier").
Just keeping up with play was a major feat,and this was with 22 half pissed cloggers,not super fit athletes, who can ping the ball from one end to the other in seconds, AND who have perfected cheating to an art form.
Like everybody else,I have screamed abuse at refs and linesmen, week in, week out, but we must always remember that these guys make honest mistakes, just like the rest of us..........................
APART FROM YOU RILEY YOU C**T !!!!!!!!!! AND AS FOR YOU KNIGHT,YOU UTTER T**T
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