Poyet v D'Urso

[Bozza]

Hmmm, makes you wonder...

FA charge Poyet over attack on Andy D'Urso

FA charge Poyet over attack on Andy D’Urso

You can’t touch referees. Slap them, and they’ll slap you back twice as hard. Gus Poyet has found this out after the FA charged him for comments made towards Andy D’Urso following Leeds United‘s Carling Cup defeat against Portsmouth. The Leeds assistant manager accused the referee of a personal vendetta against himself and the head coach, Dennis Wise, dating back to their playing days after the 3-0 defeat in the second-round tie at Fratton Park in August.

Poyet spat “Andy D’Urso is not good enough for us and I don’t want to see him at a Leeds match again. He keeps laughing during games and doesn’t make any decisions. If there is something complicated in the box he never gives it. We had a bet with the fourth official who would get the first yellow card and of course it was us. He can’t forget things he has done to me and Dennis in the past. It is sad and it has happened again since we’ve been in management. It is too much. It is personal. He has sent me off before and that’s not hard, but when it is against the team it is not right.”

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

D'urso had a poor game today.

So did Poyet.

 

[Mr Burns]

I don't think D'Urso was that bad today.

Yes, he's a first class **** but other than the obvious deflection he missed from CMS in the first half and one other think one other thing(which escpaes me now in the center of the park) I think without the blue and white specs, he got most things right.

 

[melias shoes]

Hmmm, makes you wonder...

FA charge Poyet over attack on Andy D'Urso

FA charge Poyet over attack on Andy D’Urso

You can’t touch referees. Slap them, and they’ll slap you back twice as hard. Gus Poyet has found this out after the FA charged him for comments made towards Andy D’Urso following Leeds United‘s Carling Cup defeat against Portsmouth. The Leeds assistant manager accused the referee of a personal vendetta against himself and the head coach, Dennis Wise, dating back to their playing days after the 3-0 defeat in the second-round tie at Fratton Park in August.

Poyet spat “Andy D’Urso is not good enough for us and I don’t want to see him at a Leeds match again. He keeps laughing during games and doesn’t make any decisions. If there is something complicated in the box he never gives it. We had a bet with the fourth official who would get the first yellow card and of course it was us. He can’t forget things he has done to me and Dennis in the past. It is sad and it has happened again since we’ve been in management. It is too much. It is personal. He has sent me off before and that’s not hard, but when it is against the team it is not right.”

Hmmm. Interesting.

 

[Acker79]

Brighton 1 - 0 Sunderland ... Ref: A. D'Uso
Brighton 3 - 0 Southampton ... Ref: A. D'Uso

 

[supaseagull]

I don't think D'Urso was that bad today..

really? And I guess that Leeds fan was just giving Kirkland a friendly pat on the face aswell?

Seriously, he was f***ing woeful...If you think that was an acceptable performance from a match official who gets paid a considerable amount of money to referee a game of football then drop me an email and I'll put you on a refereeing course myself!

 

[Tooting Gull]

I am absolutely sure that D'Urso is the sort of thin-skinned individual who would bear a grudge, and we know from bitter past experience (and just watching other games on TV he has reffed) that he simply isn't a very good official.

However, for some of the same reasons, I honestly think booing this particular bloke all game just makes him give more decisions against you. That's what he's like. So maybe we're all to blame!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Good thread.

I don't know what it is about d'urso but i really find him irritating in the decisions that he makes, he is a grade A'rso.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

However, for some of the same reasons, I honestly think booing this particular bloke all game just makes him give more decisions against you. That's what he's like. So maybe we're all to blame!

I said that during the game.

 

[Poppett63]

His decisions probably even out over time BUT I am told by people near the tunnel that Poyet, Tarrico and Oatway are always on the officials backs, F'ing and Jeffing at them.

My life experience is that when you treat people with respect and decency, you get far more out of them!

Poyet was a skilful player but I remain to be convinced about his leadership and interpersonal skills. His treatment of certain players would tend to support that view.

 

[Mr Burns]

really? And I guess that Leeds fan was just giving Kirkland a friendly pat on the face aswell?

Seriously, he was f***ing woeful...If you think that was an acceptable performance from a match official who gets paid a considerable amount of money to referee a game of football then drop me an email and I'll put you on a refereeing course myself!

Errr. What has D'Urso's performance got to do with that Leeds Twat. He made two mistakes in my opinion, the rest he got about right. The one that sticks out was El-Abd clattering into the back of someone on the half way line, and then Hammond making a tackle a second later, and D'Urso pulling up the El-Abd foul. Everyone went mental thinking it was for a Hammond foul, but he made it clear it was El-Abd he was pulling up. Sorry, but we are trying to blame the ref for todays result, then fine, dream on.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

He (d'urso) is clearly a stickler for the letter of the law. Free kicks taken from exactly where the offence was committed, every second of boros time wasting accounted for etc. etc.

He is also clearly f***ing blind.

 

[Lush]

Yeah - and Andy D'Urso was the ref when we beat Southampton 3 - 0 at the Amex and sent off Rickie Lambert for the first time in his career.

So what's your point?

 

[prawnsarnies]

I don't think D'Urso was that bad today.

Yes, he's a first class **** but other than the obvious deflection he missed from CMS in the first half and one other think one other thing(which escpaes me now in the center of the park) I think without the blue and white specs, he got most things right.

Really? you must have been at a differen't ground to me then, he was terrible.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Yeah - and Andy D'Urso was the ref when we beat Southampton 3 - 0 at the Amex and sent off Rickie Lambert for the first time in his career.

So what's your point?

Lambert was carded for doing a hong kong fooey on El Abd RIGHT IN FUCKNG FRONT of D'urso Sparrows 2 were a screamer and a piece of cleverness, Forster-Caskey was also incontrovertible.

He also sent off Greer in that one don't forget.

 

[Bozza]

Yeah - and Andy D'Urso was the ref when we beat Southampton 3 - 0 at the Amex and sent off Rickie Lambert for the first time in his career.

So what's your point?

Is that a question to me? If so, I don't have a point. I made my view on D'Urso today on another thread, but I'll repeat it here for you...

D'Urso didn't lose us that game - lack of quality and poor decisions in key attacking areas lost us that game.

(D'Urso was also the ref when we beat Sunderland 1-0 at the Amex)

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Can't say he is best ref 've seen but we did'nt win today because we have'nt got that goalscorer... I love CMS as a workaholic...nobody can fault that....but why does he keep slipping over at a vital goalscoring moment?

 

[Acker79]

Lambert was carded for doing a hong kong fooey on El Abd RIGHT IN FUCKNG FRONT of D'urso

Nonsense! He was merely hitting the ground in frustration at not receiving yet another nailed on freekick for assault from brighton's bullies, and El Abd took the opportunity to dive beween Lambert's hand and the ground, duping the referee. Did you not read the match report on southampton's site?

 

[Lush]

Is that a question to me? If so, I don't have a point. I made my view on D'Urso today on another thread, but I'll repeat it here for you...

(D'Urso was also the ref when we beat Sunderland 1-0 at the Amex)

My point was that if D'Urso's poor decisions today were as a result of some kind of vendetta with Poyet from Leeds days, which your post implies, then the Southampton game seems to disprove your theory.

That's all.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It was mentioned on the match thread by someone but I haven't seen it elsewhere, did Steele handle outside the area? So many people around me in the North stand also shouted handball, that I thought it wasn't just me.