Quotes About Referee

Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.

As Nat and Danny took the kick-off, the ref blew for full time.

The video ref should focus on the key things, situations ahead of goals, penalties and red cards.

Sometimes, I actually feel good when I get a penalty, because I get to rest for two minutes - hopefully just two minutes.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you're playing on pitches that aren't great, you've no referee, you've no goal nets.

We score and stop. We don't celebrate because it has to go to VAR. What are the supporters doing? The passion goes. I think they have to have a little more flexibility, such as with the offside rule. If it's not clear and obvious, maintain the decision of the referee.

There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you to be very clear - to make that decision and to sell it to everybody who's there. You believe in it, but you have to make sure other people believe in it, too.

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee

The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

On top of all that, there's government. What does government have to do with it, you ask? Everything. Government is coach, referee, cheerleader, and fan in the game of housing.

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.

The promise of anyone seeking to be on the federal bench, the Supreme Court in particular, must again be—not to serve as Chief Justice Roberts's "referee" but to do what is necessary to serve that one great overarching value of American democracy: to serve as a constraint on the otherwise overarching tyranny of the majority (and their political allies) for us and future generations.

The shirts of the referee and his touch judges, as if to confirm everything that crowds have ever suspected about match officials, carry the legend Specsavers.)

The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

The numbers are there just to help you - at the end of the day you've still got to make the decision. There are certain things the numbers can't quantify: They can't quantify injuries, they can't quantify the weather, they can't give you a number on whether the referee's going to make a good call or a bad call.

I dont like Graham Poll. He thinks he is pretty special, and Im not quite sure why.

I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game - 'We don't like him. He is no good.'