I am sure that many of you, like me, believe that the ref for the QPR game, Chris Foy, gave a very poor performance.
At the very least his decisions were, lets say, not even-handed.
I accept that this is my opinion and that I am using a Chelsea forum to express it. As a result, I also accept that some impartial readers might think I am biased. Well, I most likely am, I am a Chelsea supporter. That’s why I and you come to this site.
Ex-players in the media is something else. Recently, AVB gave an excellent put down of an article by Alan Hansen made after the Man U game. In that instance I thought that Hansen was wrong in his conclusions, but not because of any anti-Chelsea bias. I would like to extend that consideration to all the soccer pundits, but after yesterdays programmes I am having doubts about two of the analysts in particular.
One is Gary Neville on Sky.
After AVB’s impassioned post-match interview and the clearest video evidence of Foy’s inconsistencies he still claimed that only one decision may have been wrong (a penalty not awarded for the tug on Lampard’s shirt).
The second is Lee Dixon on the BBC, who saw Helguson’s delayed swallow dive as a natural extension of Luiz’s nudge. (Interesting also to note that Warnock was a guest on MOTD2 last week alongside Dixon.)
The question I would have for both of them is would they have said the same thing if, in the case of Neville, the decisions had been against Man U and Ferguson had criticized the ref?
In Dixon’s case, it would be Arsenal, and his team from boyhood, Man City.
I am convinced their views would be entirely different. The key thing about this is that both are employed by the two main broadcasting sources of live and recorded Premiership football in the UK, if we watch games on UK TV like yesterday we are stuck with their views unless we turn the sound down or switch off.
For that reason alone, we who are TV subscribers and licence payers should expect and receive total impartiality.
However, I think that Neville, in particular, is far too close to Man U to hold such an important role, and after yesterday Dixon is a concern also. I don’t think either of them are providing impartial views and that they should be held to account.
What do other members think?
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