Football......

[10ClarionSt]

This is a game where the only person who ever makes mistakes is the referee. Players don't commit fouls, give penalties away, are never offside etc. The ref is definitely a ****! Spoiling the games with his bad decisions! Shouldn't be allowed!

[Canary42]

It's only because the players are dishonest cunning conniving cheats that the game needs a referee in the first place.

[-Talbot-]

Referees are not that much different to music critics .

[douglas9401]

A game for lumbering oafs with an over developed sense of their own worth cheating and skiving off in turn.
If it wasn't for Sky TV money most of their grounds would be car parks by now.

[-Talbot-]

A fantastic rational argument from douglas.

[Buenchico]

I'm reminded of a local league match I was refereeing. Someone had gone to fetch the (only) ball, which had been kicked out of play down a long hill, so we were all stood around waiting for its return. A spectator on the touch line, next to me, said "Did tha' Dad gi' thee that badge then, ref? Cos you sure didn't ge' it any other way!". I immediately grabbed his hand and shook it warmly, explaining that "In over ten years of refereeing you're the first person who's ever accepted that I knew my father" ;-)

[Sipowicz]

^^^
You lying barsteward!