Referees

Lineker: The only pundit talking sense over tackles

January 16, 2012
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Lineker: The only pundit talking sense over tackles

There is no doubt there have been some bad tackles over the last few weeks, in the Premier League and in the Championship too. Some have had red cards, some yellow, some have gone unpunished or not even been pulled up as a foul; and sometimes it has been hard to understand why one player was sent off when another wasn’t even admonished by the referee. And as a...

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Lawro: Refs Do Favour Big Teams

November 25, 2010
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Lawro: Refs Do Favour Big Teams

The Bung has just got around to watching Match of The Day from a couple of weeks ago and we almost dropped our glass of Chardonay with shock when we heared Mark Lawrenson say that referees do favour the “big” teams! Not so much because it isn’t true but because we have rarely heard a pundit actually say this. It happened in an exchange between Gary Lineker and Lawro...

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