| But, we have to accept that because refs are humans, unless that is you want robots to ref the matches. |
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| Players are trained to dive and manipulate refs to get decisions there way. |
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| Let the refs call out the floppers right then during the game which would embarrass and expose them. |
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| If anyone cares to remember, they lost the last election, but they decided to work the refs. |
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| Few remember two undisputedly blown 24-second calls by the refs that took three points away from the Jazz and gave two points to the Bulls. |
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| The amount of abuse that some players give the refs must make refs feel like sending players off just to shut them up. |
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| It makes the other refs so mad, they filed a complaint with the league about him. |
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| To believe you have control over the players, the refs or the game is a fallacy. |
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| When I'm in a game, the refs tell us to tuck in our jerseys so we look like ball players. |
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| I actually found myself on the verge of boycotting the playoffs because of the refs. |
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| It was hard to determine if these young refs were too quick with the whistle or if the poor play resulted in a lot of silly fouls. |
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| The refs have been taking a lot of heat in the past couple of weeks, and they have to be more decisive with their flag calls. |
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| The spokesman added that the absence of wives would make it easier for refs and assistant refs to mix socially in the hotel the night before. |
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| Many owners suspect, of course, that as the refs demand full-time wages, their true plan is to take the added scratch and keep the other jobs anyway. |
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| There were warning signs the replacement refs utterly failed to command the respect of players and coaches but still, we watched. |
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| Before departing, he had a few choice words for the refs and his opponent. |
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| Electronic refs George Robertson punches above his weight ReprintsAnd, although the numbers are small, they reflect tricky social problems. |
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| Half the time, we had to fight the refs to allow him to play in his turban. |
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| On a green field below the sloping campus, teams huddle and plot strategy as group leaders and refs get the games into place. |
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| In our league the game was generally played well and usually the refs would stamp anything out, especially with swearing and stuļ¬ like that. |
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| The refs have to take a decision in a split second. |
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| The refs fought back and minutes later Peter Quine superbly supplied supersub Danny Woods with the ammunition to fire home the equaliser. |
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| Yelling at the refs will help your team win. |
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| The referee is supposed to spot and penalize players who use such underhand tactics but unfortunately, when something nasty happens on the pitch, the refs are often looking the other way and miss the foul altogether. |
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| If anything, maybe Instant Replay II will show the refs to have been right more often than anyone wants to believe. |
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| Despite what fans may chant from the stands, refs are able to unpick intent in handballs, divine the degree of danger in ugly tackles and calm fraying tempers as no computer can. |
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| Electronic refs George Robertson punches above his weight ReprintsHowever, during the past two decades the paper's circulation has gone into free fall, declining to just over a million today. |
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| Electronic refs George Robertson punches above his weight Reprints Related items Child support: Third time lucky? Jul 9th 1998This causes two problems. |
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| Yes, it would be nice if football's perennial tosspots started to realise that they don't need to dive and swear at refs and act arrogantly. |
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| All coaches work the refs because they understand human nature better than anyone. |
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| I only wish the refs would do likewise south of the border to eradicate the free-for-alls we regularly see in the penalty areas. |
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| I don't remember much about the game, who won or lost, but what I do remember was Jack, his intensity and the fierce, passionate way he worked the refs. |
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| He worked the refs better than anyone I've ever seen. He was a great bench coach, too. He had a great feel for playing the right people at the right time. |
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| Today this pressure is better funded and more coordinated on the Right, making their efforts to work the refs, to script our political spectacles, more powerful. |
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| Refs aren't such weak characters that they would allow their impartiality to be compromised on this basis. |
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| Refs and many other officials are present to make sure all football is kept within the laws of the game. |
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| Refs are only human, and they do make calls within the flow of a game. |
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| Sin-bins Refs can about big early on, them a option to their But some would and that would add to the strength of officiating, not just in this country but the world over. |
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