Graham Poll.

[Ted Hughes]

There is a piece here about Giggs giving the 4th official some abuse (a bit of a wind up piece similar to the stuff we get tbf) but the interesting bit comes from Graham Poll's little interjection.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -City.html

GRAHAM POLL: GIGGS WAS WRONG TO CRITICISE OLIVER... BUT WEBB SHOULD HAVE SENT NASTASIC OFF


Matija Nastasic is a robust defender who made his presence felt very early in the game as he flew into an aerial challenge and flattened Chris Smalling.

Howard Webb rightly cautioned him despite it being the first challenge of note in just the fifth minute.

Following that there was really nothing that I saw Nastasic do which could have prompted Giggs' outburst at half-time, although in the 84th minute he brought Wayne Rooney down for what should have been a second caution.

Giggs was always a very fair player and one who would only kick up a fuss if he felt hard done by, generally not getting involved in pressurising officials.

If he did have a go at Michael Oliver it will have been due to a genuine sense of injustice rather than an attempt to apply psychological pressure to the team of officials.


So Nastasic should have been off, but not Rooney.

Here his Poll's view of dealing with Rooney when asked by Martin Keown during the game:

Poll: Difficult at times. But he could be charming, too. He has something about him that you want to like, an honest endeavour, not a nastiness. He loves his football, so he can be caught up in the moment.


This cunt used to ref games involving Manchester Utd.

Ferguson always said he was the best & requested him.

Does ANYBODY wonder why ?

Here are some of his comments re Ferguson:


Sir Alex Ferguson was one of only three people I’ve ever known with a very rare quality - you realised he was in a room before you’d even seen him.

Like Brian Clough and Pierluigi Collina, he had a presence about him.

After my infamous mistake at the 2006 World Cup — when I showed three yellow cards to the same player — Ferguson phoned me in the aftermath to urge me not to give up.

I ended up admiring and respecting the man, despite the fact that on my first trip to Old Trafford, he came into the dressing room after a 2-2 draw with Everton with the hair dryer on full draft. To no surprise to anyone reading this, he complained I had not added enough time on.

I refereed him 56 further times and whilst I could never claim to be his friend — not that that was ever my intention — I know that we built up a mutual respect for one another, so much so that he wrote the forwards to my autobiography.



Thank fuck these bent cunts have both retired.

[Evenmydoghatesunited]

Poll was one of the first of the new breed of refs who think that people pay hard earned cash to go watch the referee and his 3 knob head assistants dispense their wisdom. If that twat told me the day after Monday was Tuesday I'd not believe him.

As we used to sing - oh graham poll's a fucking arsehole.

[sidSmith]

Why are they safe with this all coming out? Let's look at decisions and results and retrospectively dock the fuckers points. Would be piss funny to fuck up some of this history that they so love to cling on to. Not only did they buy the fucking league, they apparently cheated through manipulation and intimidation, which we all knew was going on.

Would be interesting to see how many crucial games they got points from with crap decisions.

[Ted Hughes]

His comments re Giggs 'not pressurising' refs, are a dead giveaway.

Giggs is a serial offender who contests every decision as a matter of course. He has been trained to do it; it's a reaction he does without even thinking, directly brainwashed into him from being a kid at the Utd training ground.

The comments by Poll are of a fan, defending one of his heroes, not a so called 'impartial' official.

The whole of football in this country has been shit on by these people.

The competition, without them, is a better one.

[Wooders]

Where are the voting buttons?

[Evenmydoghatesunited]

On a serious note I might just drop a line to the FA in a reasonable non ranting fair minded concerned citizen sort of way and ask whether in the light of these serious revelations by a former official are they completely happy that all matches have been refereed by this personage in a completely unbiased independent of preference manner.

[Beefymcfc]

So, after more revelations, can I now take this silly hat off?

*smug*

[Ted Hughes]

The 'revelations' about his Ferguson sucking have been in the public domain for ages.

I'm just using them to back up my example of his blatant rag sucking regarding the latest game.

The bloke is a rag lover who used to ref not only their games, but those of their rivals & enemies.

Is it any surprise when he gives a last minute handball against Richard Dunne when reffing a City game for example ?

[Wonderwall]

I am sure it was either Keith Hackett or mike Riley that said giggs was one of the worst at this and you could tell how bad he would be, the more unshaven he was, the more aggressive he was on the pitch.

[Hazy2]

The dispatches programe, had Bryan Robson hanging red nose, it has to be watched to understand, The scum have been tinkering with football for years. Giggs is not to be trusted with anything.

[gmercer1]

The dispatches programe, had Bryan Robson hanging red nose, it has to be watched to understand, The scum have been tinkering with football for years. Giggs is not to be trusted with anything.

Especially your wife!

[shortagain]

The dispatches programe, had Bryan Robson hanging red nose, it has to be watched to understand, The scum have been tinkering with football for years. Giggs is not to be trusted with anything.

Especially your wife!

Thats what his brother said!!!!