always remember your coin ...

[Dickie E]

The referee manager Joanna Stimpson merely said ahe was disappointed.

It was Phil Neville who went further with the mome t of madneas stuff. Phil Neville gets the issues

See#57

Some stereotyping on your behalf ? You owe her an apology

and nealty demonstrate that you don't get the issue

I can only see Anthony Chapman's article in the Sun which is unequivocal. I dont subscribe to the Times so I can't read your attachment in #57.

Certainly, if the Sun has it wrong, then I will form a different opinion.

The BBC attributes the comments to the referee manager too

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46202509

 

[SimonSmith]

Does that actually make any difference? I'm interested.

 

[crossref]

The point is, do you read that quote and think - she is a woman , she is growing a pair for the sisterhood

Or do you read that quote and think - she is a high level referee manager that seems a very unlikely thing for her to say.

I traced it back.

Did that referee think, subconsciously or explicitly - it's just a woman's game, no Biggie, I will make them play RPS

 

[Dickie E]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/are-male-referees-too-lenient-with-female-footballers-6h6mf0t9h

crossref, do me a favour please and copy & paste this article. I can't read it because I don't have a subscription. I've done a google on Phil Neville and can't find any other attribution to him on the RPS incident.

 

[Pinky]

There has been some press speculation that the ref has previous with RPS, and I understand that although he originally appealed the sanction, he has since withdrawn his appeal.

This made it on to the BBC TV satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You, so not entirely sure the whole incident paints anyone in a good light, except for the captains of the teams who just go on with what the ref asked.

 

[crossref]

crossref, do me a favour please and copy & paste this article. I can't read it because I don't have a subscription. I've done a google on Phil Neville and can't find any other attribution to him on the RPS incident.

I pasted it in poat #57

- The repetition in rhe middle of the quote is a photo caption
- it was my BOLD
- tbh I could see how the BBC and the sun attributed the wholw quote to Stimpson, in a quick glance at rhe Times article it was an easy mistake to make .
- except that the journaliat should stop and think .. did she really say that ?? And them look again

So far as I can tell EVERY media report on the incident is sourced feom that Times article originally

 

[Marc Wakeham]

Phil Neville has not bathed himself in glory with some of his comments in the past. Not sure he and common sense are well acquainted.

Probably sees this as a chance to ingratiate him self with the "right people". Not sure that Neville "gets" anything.