December 8th 2011
NB All refs, images of whom we have trawled from the internet, are not, by virtue of being included in this article, in fact w****** They may be so in their own right, or could equally be thoroughly nice chaps and amazing referees, we’ll never know – DB Edit You’re lying if you say you’ve [...]
November 8th 2011
Everyone’s favourite footballer Ashley Cole (star of our Thicko and Ego XI’s) is famed for many things. Greed, adultery and shooting students on work experience may be at the top of many peoples’ ‘What I Love About Ashley Cole’ list. Yet there’s something I ‘love’ about him more than anything I’ve already mentioned – his [...]
March 10th 2011
When the referee sent Robin van Persie off on Tuesday evening for ‘time wasting’ (See the video below) , millions of fans around the world and probably all 22 players on the pitch were gobsmacked. I try my best to stick up for referees when they miss fouls or make incorrect decisions, it’s impossible to [...]
February 21st 2011
It hasn’t been a good couple of footballing weeks for the Bluefields.com CEO. Last week he was booked after a player who he fouled supposedly dived over his leg. This week he was booked for diving after a player actually fouled him (apparently, although secretly I wouldn’t be surprised if he did actually dive…Gattuso comparisons [...]
February 10th 2011
Last week I considered the ability of referees to do their job sufficiently with the speed and complexity of modern day professional football. Yet an equally pressing issue is that of the refereeing situation in amateur football. Due to a lack of referee supply, the standard or refereeing is frankly pretty terrible. But you can’t [...]
February 9th 2011
Welcome to the ninth installment of a small series of serialisations of my book “A Guide to Surviving Youth Football” If you like what you see and want to read more please do go and purchase a copy of the book by going to amazon. Referees Without Referees there wouldn’t be youth football. Plain and [...]
February 7th 2011
Whilst playing on Saturday, my team gave away a penalty when the ball struck our right-back’s slightly outstretched arm from a cross. This kind of cheap penalty seems to be becoming more and more frequent in professional football in particular, and it seems ridiculous to me that you should have to basically give a goal [...]
January 25th 2011
Week after week after week after week after week after week we hear the same things. No, I’m not talking about X Factor, nor David Guetta singles. I’m talking about the relentless criticism of referees and their decisions. It’s pretty much become universally acceptable in football to blame a referee for losing a match and [...]
August 17th 2010
Well hello there, and welcome to the Soccer On The Brain (SOTB) blog. The best ever blog for football players. SOTB is written by those of us actively involved in Grassroots Football and anyone can contribute. Get involved in the comments if you want join in the discussion, or if you want to add an [...]
August 15th 2010
Write about your thoughts from the weekend, your injuries, training, the bad ref you had, the problems faced by your club, or even give us some insight into your views on the professional world of football. If you have an article, or an idea for an article email it to sotb (at) bluefields (dot) com [...]
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