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Had a gentle shocker refereeing in the Aus vs croatia game. Booked a croatia player 3 times. Sent off 3 players 2 from croatia 1 from australia. missed 2 clear penalties. 1 was a handball and 1 was a clear rugby tackle on mark viduka. Just blown his chance on doing the world cup final

Well he wouldn't be doing it anyway cause England are going to get to the final :wink:

 As I posted before when Poll showed a red before the yellow.....this fella is supposed to be the Prem's best, and is a professional.  Only in England and Japan do you find professional refs.

 That we can't produce a top class ref is as much a disgrace, as producing an international side that can't deal with corners and long throws.

  Still I'll always be grateful to Poll for missing a blatant Chalkie handball when we beat Newcastle in about 92, and he scored the winner.

Graham Poll certainly cheered me up this evening, the third yellow for the croatian was after the final whistle too.

That was my first ever game!! So i was subjected to Mr Poll from an early age. No wonder I dislike him so much

Not a bad one to start with...it was in fact Nov 91...that win took us second and a point in midweek at Charlton took us top of the second flight.....its a long way back before we can hope for similar again.

3 years reg 3 years  :D

Poll is generally piss poor over here though, being one of the worse Pro refs.  I think he gets selected because he fits the Fifa bill of clamping down on whatever they want clamped down on, rather that some refs tendency to ref as they see fit.

saw poll in one of his previous matches and he was piss poor, gave a number of important incorrect decisions

I know it will never happen, but wouldn't it be nice if a few ex-pro's qualified to become referees?
People who actually understand the game, and could use a bit of common sense when need be.
But I think there is a lot of training/qualification to be done (a few years I think), plus the pay is nothing compared to what they get playing I suppose.

That happens in the NHL I think.

its not really the money thats the problem though.it is the time it takes to get your qualification it takes a good few years to do it then they have to retire at 45 or something like that

I saw him speak at a Sprtsmans dinner earlier this year at Molineux and he mentioned that!  Seemeed to imply that referees even things out over a game if they make a cock-up.

William Hill are off 10/1 odds of him not refereeing anothr world cup game. Very very tempting....

exactly, a ref needs to understand both the rules of the game and also be considerate and understanding of players' actions and the motives behind them - if you've played a bit yourself i don't see why reffing shouldn't be too difficult as most kids reffing their own matches illustrate perfectly.

i'm going to get into reffing next year, i've still not done a match yet.

Clarification please!

The first time I saw Graham Poll was when we beat Newcastle 2-1 in 1993 (the Hoddle promotion season). He awarded us a slightly dubious penalty when Chalky threw himself down in the area when we were 0-1 down. I would be surprised if he had refereed us before that against Newcastle :shock:

Sorry to question you oh Great One :wink:

That does sound more like my era, to be honest.

i recall there being at least one or two ex-professionals refereeing in england. i'm also fairly sure that the best referee i've ever seen was an ex-pro, but my memory has let me down on the name...

Paul Danson  :soapy tit wank:

 You could well be right....2-1 wins v Newcastle used to come along at regular intervals back then.....I knew there was something he did to benefit Chalkie.

 Can we agree that he had a slightly naff wedge style haircut?

i did the 12 minute run at school. It took me about a week to recover.

Graham Poll! Brilliant :soapy tit wank:

(Heather Graham)

is that just this tounament or will we have to wait untill he retires to claim it?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
Has to be Gooch :)

Most definitely!

I only voted for Norton to say how many others had.

Just me then

 :fag:

You could have just clicked on 'view results' before you voted. A feable excuse!