[Football] First female referee appointed in the EFL

[Mancgull]

Why shouldn't a woman be able to do the job. Amazing it's taken this long.
I actually think that Sian Massey-Ellis should also be given the opportunity. She's a good Lino.

 

[amexer]

Why shouldn't a woman be able to do the job. Amazing it's taken this long.
I actually think that Sian Massey-Ellis should also be given the opportunity. She's a good Lino.

What is reason she is not a ref

 

[METALMICKY]

Sian ran the line at the Millwall v BHA cup game couple of years ago. Expected her to get a lot of stick from The Den but nothing. She has become an accepted member of the footballing family. I hope Rebecca can take the flack when she makes a mistake, as all refs do, and it's not treated as sexist when fans complain.

I'm assuming you recall a particular incident in that game? Montoya?

 

[Easy 10]

Will she be allowed to sleep with any of the players?

With the aroma of testosterone wafting under her nose every match, she must be tempted.


Surely it won't be long before we find out who are the real players.

You don't half post some weird shit.

 

[Justice]

I'm assuming you recall a particular incident in that game? Montoya?

Called Locadia’s goal offside incorrectly after the Millwall told her to get her flag up (apparently).

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Called Locadia’s goal offside incorrectly after the Millwall told her to get her flag up (apparently).

It was a pretty tough call if I remember correctly.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Good news - the female refs I've seen at amateur level have been excellent

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[pornomagboy]

no one will argue with her as she will always be right

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[Perfidious Albion]

I must admit that when I first heard this I thought “ Oh no..... ******* women want to get in everywhere! “ but having thought about it and agreed with your comments here about the terrible refereeing we have seen this season, I have to admit that things are poor at the moment and maybe she can better.

I would wonder how the players might react though ... if she is faced with a brawl on the pitch , or a couple of six foot meatheads squaring up to each other, could she command the situation?

We will have to see . It is a fact that the world is changing , so let’s see.

 

[SAC]

I must admit that when I first heard this I thought “ Oh no..... ******* women want to get in everywhere! “ but having thought about it and agreed with your comments here about the terrible refereeing we have seen this season, I have to admit that things are poor at the moment and maybe she can better.

I would wonder how the players might react though ... if she is faced with a brawl on the pitch , or a couple of six foot meatheads squaring up to each other, could she command the situation?

We will have to see . It is a fact that the world is changing , so let’s see.

It is very rare for a professional footballer to do anything other that square up to another footballer, even tilting their head will see their (supposedly meathead) opponent falling to the ground. Any ref should just tell them to stop being pathetic or they will get cards out.

It's a very difficult job and I'm sure that the first female PL ref will get lot of sexist abuse on social media but it will (hopefully) soon die out.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I wonder if she will share the showers like the lady ref in Devon.

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This reads as a comedy creation. My favourite line was this:

“The footballers didn't mind. It was the wives and girlfriends who objected.”

Bloody wags!

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

The best ref I've seen at Isthmian/ Southern league level wasa female. Can't recall her name at the moment

Agreed. I saw a woman ref officiating in a Worthing game and she was excellent. Hopefully working her way up the ladder.

 

[Mancgull]

What is reason she is not a ref

Don’t know. Maybe due to the different abilities to referee a game or to run the line. I’m amazed at how often Sian gets the offsides right before VAR confirms them. I guess that is a different skill to determining whether Grealish has dived for the 100th time or not.

 

[Frankie]

I'd like to personally welcome the FA and EFL to the 21st century.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

You don't half post some weird shit.

Thanks.

Oh, that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it,

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I would wonder how the players might react though ... if she is faced with a brawl on the pitch , or a couple of six foot meatheads squaring up to each other, could she command the situation?
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She won't get involved - exactly as per their training. None of the men refs now get involved if there is a physical confrontation. They step away, to get the clearest possible view of what is going on, and then deal with the aftermath.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

She's probably had to work five times as hard as a man in order to fulfil her dream.

She's been qualified to level 1 for three years, and it has taken until now for her to get her first appointment at the level the has reached.

Shameful

 

[Springal]

Fair play to anyone that makes it to that level. You have to seriously love it to get that far. Earning £15-£25 a game, possibly for being out of your home for 4-5 hours for 5+ years really takes something. Even more difficult being a woman for sure. But I agree no reason a woman can't do as good a job as any man. When I used to ref there were more women getting into it and they definitely had to work harder than any man to get to the same level.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This reads as a comedy creation. My favourite line was this:

“The footballers didn't mind. It was the wives and girlfriends who objected.”

Bloody wags!

A similar reaction to when women first went to sea. The best response I read, was from a Wren who turned round to a wife, saying she had better taste than the other's husband.

 

[TugWilson]

Doomed to fail i fear . No not misogyny not sexism not blind criticism but too big a gap in behaviour and what is considered acceptable . We have all seen and more recently with empty grounds heard language used both at and around the ref that is part and parcle of the game . With a male ref it will go over his head and be allowed as long as it doesn`t cross the line , but with a female i can see the dissent rule dominating certain games . We have all seen and heard refs get called ALL the names under the sun in the heat of a game and the ref understands tensions are high and more often than not make allowances , i find it hard to believe that female refs would take it the same way .

Our great game used to be a contact sport , but these days it is getting more and more non contact , crikey you can`t even look at a keeper without giving a free kick away . I can see this as being another trigger that will see our game " sanitized " even further . I`m sorry but in my ideal world all male refs would have to have played at a decent level in order to ref a professional game , that way diving and time wasting would be picked up on , along with tackles such as Dales at Boro which anyone who has played the game would have seen for what it was . Similarly i believe female refs will bring too many discrepancies into the mens game that will inevitably have a long term negative effect .

Can anyone honestly say that before the Harrogate game the players will not be addressed pre game on language and general behaviour , some sort of instruction will be given that otherwise would not have been . It`s at this point that things have already started to change , watch the amount of cards for Dissent rise , i sincerely hope i am proven wrong for the sake of our game .