SFA chief defends under-fire refs

[TDB]

Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith has called for more respect to be shown towards referees.

 

"I feel that there has been a little bit of momentum built up against referees," said Smith.

 

"Referees have a very difficult job to do and we want to try to encourage people to become referees because without them we don't have a game.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/7264023.stm

[Erik]

I feel that SFA Chief Executive Gordon Smith needs to stop being such an old firm sympathising bottle merchant and actually practice what he preaches for once.

[Spitonastranger]

Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith has called for more respect to be shown towards referees.

 

"I feel that there has been a little bit of momentum built up against referees," said Smith.

 

"Referees have a very difficult job to do and we want to try to encourage people to become referees because without them we don't have a game.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/7264023.stm

 

this is a tired old excuse for incompetance used time and again, as someone involved in kids football, if we make any complaint to our league about refs, this is the excuse they use, yes it is a difficult job, but when someone shows incompetance, there must be consequences for them:cool:

[TDB]

referees have to be accountable for their actions, they can not be aloud to simply do what they like.