Petition updateHoward Webb: Hand In Your Resignation With Immediate Effect''Better Not Offend Their Fragile Ego''... - Refs wearing Body Warn Video Now
Adam WoronieckiWorcester, United Kingdom
May 6, 2024

Gillet had a headcam, during the Crystal Palace game v Man Utd, apparently it's being used for a programme. And this won't be available to the public. We have thousands of cameras anyway. If he wants to wear one fair enough. Yet it's not going to change anything, because listen. Refs get the protection already, they get private limozines, they get lengthy pay cheques. They get luxurious treatment. This whole fable and fairy tale, that, 'oh no they do get abuse'. Well I have never witnessed them getting any abuse, or heard of anything. All of this is just hearsay. Obviously I don't condone giving them abuse. Yet, I think football players are more vulnerable to getting shouted at. I know there has been controversy over Anthony Taylor. Tayls, bless him... he has a nickname. Yet the thing that I am trying to say. 

Yet the thing is, is two wrongs don't make a right do they. The fans, from my point of view. And this whole narrative the FA being under scrutiny. They put themselves in a controversial situation. It was their choice. If they had played by the rules, and actually, done things properly. People wouldn't be reacting to their bad decision making. So I think that the pain they have is self inflicted, because if they ref the game, without any controversy, and they ref the game. To a high standard. And they are objective, and they listen to teams. And they show professionalism. Then, they won't have any problems. Yet, all of this is just speculation. I have been going to football games for years. Have never witnessed a ref getting abuse, never read about it on the news. I read about Grealish getting attacked by a fan on the pitch. I have heard about players getting abuse. And ex players, yet if refs do get language. That is disagreeable to them. Then, listen, it's a working class sport. What do they expect. Football fans, come from all different types of backgrounds, and they have opinions. Just like everyone else, and they express these opinions. And it's within our human rights to express opinions. No matter how unpopular they might be. So, listen, the older I get. The more wiser I get to these things, and these tactics, oh they are going to move the goal posts. 

Thing is, is that, football fans wantng their beautiful game back. That isn't abuse, that is a genuine desire, to actually want to watch a game. Where the camera man isn't obsessively just videoing the ref for lots of seconds. Because it's all about ego, and self gratification, and it shouldn't be like that. It's not the Jeremy Kyle show, it's not Eastenders. Yet they treat it like it is, and that's the problem. Is that, the refs, if they go back to the archives, and go back to the year 2,000. And have a look at how the refs behaved them. Very respectful, blended into the background, very pleasant. Let a lot of things go. You barely even noticed them. And they were the good refs. Yet, now, it's all about their ego, and self gratification. And for me personally. The upset that I have felt. Is that it's the FA at fault. Not the fans, don't try and twist the narrative around, and play the victim. And pretend like it's the other way around. Because it isn't. Being in a position of authority, and then abusing that position, to gain an advantage. Is against the law. It shouldn't happen. They are just doing illegal things. If you look into the law. It is, because, for example. Say you have a university lecturer, and he throws a coin at a student. And then he gets suspended. Or he unfairly grades people, he gets suspended. Or a doctor at a hospital, they do their jobs badly, they get suspended, and get criticised. And a lot of the time, when you are reading the newspaper. It's always the elite, and the people at the top. Who just seem like they are invincible, in their little ivory tower. And this ivory tower, is a fantasy, they have.

Because the reality of the situation, is, you go down and you see the real world. And I have seen the real world. And I know for a fact the real world isn't about limozines, fancy cars, having people drive you around. The real world, is painful, and you have to endure a lot of emotions, and you have to tolerate or try to tolerate people who annoy you. So quite frankly. They can bring the body cams over if they wish, yet, listen. I don't think they get harshly treated. I have been polite enough, and reasonable enough. I have spoken about corruption. Yet, I haven't said it on an empty basis, and I have used facts to back this up. It's not like I said it, without the facts. I said it with the facts. So, there is literally nothing to get in this victim like mentallity now. Where, obviously, I get my point across. I put it across well. And Howard Webb still insists on using these refs, like Gillet, and Attwell, and Hooper, and the list is really endless. There are only two good refs in the PGMOL. Andrew Madley, and Michael Oliver. The rest, are just singing from this hymn sheet of. 'I am in charge, so if you do anything to offend my fragile ego, I am going to punish you.' That's what it is.

Wolves complained, so then the FA got annoyed, and find any excuse. Yet we complain because we have a foundation and basis for a complaint. We don't complain on empty grounds. Which is the problem. Because the complaints are genuine, and aren't fictictious. So, on that basis, they should address the complaints professionally. Yet they don't. They barely take any responsibility for their actions. And when they do, it's a half hearted apology. And a phone call. And a bit of sweet talking. Howard Webb, he sweet talks the managers, yet this is very nice, and appreciated. And it's very good of him to do this, as it shows compassion. Yet try and use these kind words, and put them into a position where change is happening. Because at the moment.

The beautiful game is being ruined. At the moment. It's bad officiating. So people have every right to complain. As like previously said. I wasn't with Gary O'Neil when he spoke to that ref, forgotten his name. Yet I wasn't there, when he spoke to him. So, I have absolutely no idea of what was said. So unless that conversation is published. I can't really have an opinion on a private conversation, that I didn't hear about. Yet you get all of the hearsay, and you can't rely on that. Yet, I know Gary very well, and he's not an abusive person. So he may have been angry in his demeanour, yet, he's a gentleman, and I doubt he used profanity. And if he did, then, I honestly, don't know, yet no record of profanity was used. So this whole thing is just conjecture, and more fiction being written by the FA. 

Would I would love to happen, is for them to ref the games, properly, to a high standard. Be professional, stop favouring the top teams, and stop treating the teams, who are lower down the table badly. Until this happens I will carry on campaigning. 

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