{"id":140,"date":"2023-01-25T00:14:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casinosenligne.com\/en\/?p=140"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:08:47","slug":"exclusive-graham-poll-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casinosenligne.com\/en\/news\/exclusive-graham-poll-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Ex-PL referee Graham Poll interviews: Ex-players could do a better job at reffing; Millionaire players used to taunt me about how much I got paid; PFA stopped us making player conversations public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Premier League referee Graham Poll has sat down in an exclusive interview with Casinos En Ligne.<\/p>\n<p>Poll believes Sepp Blatter was right and VAR is making things worse for referees, and also reveals the worst Premier League referring decision of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to use the quotes from this interview, you MUST credit Casinos En Ligne and link to <a href=\"https:\/\/casinosenligne.com\/\">https:\/\/casinosenligne.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Casinos En Ligne Interviews Graham Poll\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCCAnFNvrVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Key stories from the interview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"#1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Dean and Anthony Taylor at fault for worst mistake of the season<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"#2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sepp Blatter was right, VAR is making things worse for referees<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"#3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agrees with Alan Shearer \u2018bring back common sense refereeing\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"#4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premier League haven\u2019t got VAR right, Webb has to bring in much needed changes<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"#5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Referees should give post-match interviews<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Full Transcript<\/h2>\n<p><strong id=\"2\">Question: Do you believe Marcus Rashford\u2019s goal in the Manchester derby should have been disallowed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Graham Poll<\/strong>: \u201cThis is an interesting topic because when things are black or white it\u2019s very easy to analyse but this incident certainly isn\u2019t. The assistant referee was Darren Cann, who is the most experienced assistant referee in the Premier League. He did the World Cup final with Howard Webb in 2010, so he\u2019s one of the best in the business. Then reviewing the incident on VAR you\u2019ve got Michael Oliver, who is the number one referee in the country. So you look at it and think surely they\u2019ve got to get it right. Rashford doesn\u2019t touch the ball so that\u2019s one of the criteria ticked off. He is in an offside position when the pass is played so that\u2019s clear as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo it hinges on whether he is affecting the opponents with his positioning. I can argue from my perspective that he doesn\u2019t. I know Manuel Akanji said he stopped to play Rashford offside. Well that\u2019s a mistake by Akanji not Darren Cann or Michael Oliver because the ball could\u2019ve got swept 10 yards further left and then Rashford\u2019s position is irrelevant so that\u2019s a red herring for me. You can\u2019t argue that Ederson is affected by Rashford approaching at the angle that he\u2019s bearing down on goal from. I don\u2019t believe that a referee who is totally engrossed in refereeing would necessarily look at that at the time. If I had been refereeing I\u2019d like it to have been given offside and if under review VAR said to rule it out I\u2019d have said \u2018that\u2019s fine thank you very much\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is where VAR goes wrong because we try to get everything 100% correct and be 100% consistent but football isn\u2019t black and white. If I go back to when Sepp Blatter was in charge, he was totally against technology being introduced for this very reason. At the time I thought that was an outdated view but looking at it now VAR hasn\u2019t taken away confusion or doubt or inconsistency and you could even argue that it\u2019s made it worse. So the reason I\u2019d have wanted to see this goal disallowed is that it\u2019s the most obvious decision to give. If you did a straw poll of players, managers and referees I think most would say they want it disallowed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Were the officials influenced by the fact that the match was being played at Old Trafford?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP<\/strong>: \u201cYou sound like Pep! \u201cWe know where we\u2019re playing and we know what happens here\u201d. It\u2019s scandalous to suggest that. You\u2019ve got the most decorated and recognised assistant referee. He doesn\u2019t care where he\u2019s doing the game. They give what they believe is the correct decision, not the most obvious or easiest decision. In their absolute heart of hearts they believe the decision they\u2019ve made is correct and you have to admire the cojones of making that decision even if they know they\u2019ll get flack for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"3\">Q: Are referees allowed to use their common sense enough in situations like the Rashford one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cWhat people want is consistency. The only way you can get that is by taking out the vagaries and being more dictatorial which is what FIFA have gradually done to the laws of the game over the last 20 years. They\u2019ve taken out \u2018in the opinion of the referee\u2019. This is where it\u2019s being spoiled in my view. We have to watch a reply for 90 seconds to decide whether he was offside by a millimetre or not for example. That\u2019s ruining the game. When I used to do analysis for BT Sport I could give an answer in 5 seconds or say \u2018that\u2019s too close to call\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Were you impressed with the ref in the North London Derby yesterday?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cHe went in with a low key approach which is popular as long as it works. For me Sergio Romero should have been sent off. He was involved in too many incidents which were highlighted by the Sky Sports commentary team saying \u2018he could be off here and if not this time he\u2019s got to go next time\u2019. He then made another two or three clear fouls and he was very lucky to stay in the pitch in my view. However because Arsenal won 2-0 the Arsenal fans don\u2019t care and that\u2019s how a referee can get lucky.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Was Ivan Toney fortunate to be awarded a penalty for Brentford vs Bournemouth and should it have been a free kick the other way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cI think when you see it at full speed on first viewing it looks like a penalty. Then when you see it back in slow motion you can see Toney traps the defender&#8217;s arm between his own arm and body but it\u2019s not a clear and obvious error so VAR can\u2019t overturn it. Maybe it\u2019s 60% Toney backing in and trapping the arm. I\u2019m sure Brentford fans will argue it\u2019s a penalty and I wouldn\u2019t disagree.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Bobby Reid was awarded a penalty for Fulham by VAR but the referee didn\u2019t see one TV angle that suggested he initiated the contact. What did you make of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cI thought it looked more like a penalty than not but if it\u2019s not given on the pitch I question how clear and obvious the error really was in order for it to be overturned. He looked at a number of angles but I don\u2019t know if he saw the critical one. I don\u2019t think the Premier League have got it right yet on VAR. Looking back at the World Cup VAR incidents were resolved more quickly in general and it was more consistent. But in the Premier League it\u2019s still not there yet. Whether that is because of the instructions Mike Riley is giving and him being cautious I don\u2019t know but knowing his character that\u2019s possible. Howard Webb is coming in and he\u2019s got masses of experience with VAR from his time in America as well as doing TV work with BT Sport. So he\u2019s a very much more experienced guy in that field so I think we\u2019ll see some much needed changes soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"4\">Q: Are you pleased that Howard Webb is taking over from Mike Riley then?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cYeah I think so. Firstly, without question the job is a tough one. Whilst in theory you\u2019re working independently for the PGMOL, they themselves are beholden principally to the Premier League as well as the FA and the Football League. When Richard Scudamore was in charge of the Premier League he was pulling more strings in the PGMOL than anyone else. I know that as referees we used to have to make sure that Ricahrd was happy and that\u2019s when refereeing became a bit softer. We had to be accepting of small fouls, don\u2019t caution everybody, understand the excesses of players etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m not a fan of the style of refereeing at the moment, it\u2019s a bit too weak for me. As a result of that you\u2019re getting more and more incidents where referees are surrounded. Managers are getting over involved. Look at Arteta yesterday having recently faced two charges, one of which was for him yet he was still outside his technical area all the time and even entered the field of play. It\u2019s not seen as a problem any more but if you let the small things go they become bigger and bigger. So I\u2019m hoping Howard comes in with a fresh eye and tightens things up. I\u2019m not saying I want to see five red cards in a game but things need to be stepped up and hopefully they will be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Do you think there needs to be a clampdown on players surrounding and intimidating referees?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cThere definitely should be. When I was refereeing they brought in stipulation to say if more than four players from one team surrounded a referee then we were to report them. So it was a fact there were no opinions. Referees have an issue about not wanting to look like they\u2019re being intimidated. So a team will be warned for a first offence and then charged. That to me is a good way of clearing these situations up without the ref having get flustered and look all pinickity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How did Pep Guardiola get away with kicking the water bottle at the Leeds bench?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cAs he would say: \u2018You know who he is and you know who he manages\u2019. How do you conclude otherwise? Yes he didn\u2019t hit anyone. Doesn\u2019t matter. No he didn\u2019t hurt anyone. Doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s irrelevant. Did he do wrong? Yes. I can\u2019t explain why he wasn\u2019t charged.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Should the Premier League increase stoppage time as per FIFA\u2019s directive in the World Cup?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cNo. I was If you signal to players that we\u2019re going to add on as much time as it takes, the theory behind that is that they\u2019ll think there\u2019s no point in me wasting time because the time will just be added on anyway. But it doesn\u2019t work like that because it\u2019s ingrained. A manager like Jose Mourinho who was a master of the dark arts would utilise that to his benefit massively. When his teams were under pressure they would waste as much time as they could get away with. It\u2019s a tactic to break up play. But what the referees should be doing is cautioning players for time wasting. And if they do it again they should be sent off. Why are we ignoring one of the laws of the game and just saying we\u2019ll fudge that and just add the time on? It breaks up play and the game loses its momentum.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Is there a specific law that you would change or perhaps one that you\u2019d want to introduce?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cI think the laws of the game as written if applied properly and consistently are absolutely fine. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re not. People are allowed to get away with things. It\u2019s minor things and silly things like foul throws. You might say does it matter? But it\u2019s a signal that laws do matter. The number of substitutions keep on increasing and all that does is give people the chance to waste more time. Most subs are made in the last five minutes of play, not for injuries, yes for tactical reasons but mainly to just waste time. The law that a goalkeeper can only hold the ball for six seconds is another one. Keepers are never penalised. Ramsdale was magnificent yesterday but as soon as he catches the ball he falls to the ground. He then waves all the players up. They all do it. It\u2019s infuriating.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Is there an element of fear among officials that they are at risk of being assaulted like Ramsdale was by a Tottenham fan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cI think more so among assistant referees than referees because of their proximity to the crowd. His or her position is dictated by play, whereas a referee can choose where to run and can stay more central in terms of his position if he wants. In the Premier League it\u2019s very unlikely to happen but it\u2019s down to policing and stewarding to reinforce that barrier between supporters and the playing area and sadly that didn\u2019t happen at Tottenham on Sunday. There\u2019s no excuse for that fan to do what he did and Tottenham have said they\u2019ll find him and ban him and the police might do even more than that. It\u2019s down the pyramid where local referees go out in fear on a regular basis which is abhorrent and horrible because they\u2019re outnumbered and on their own. All it takes is one overly aggressive person to spark a situation and sadly there are many assaults on local referees. If you start from the top and look at managers who will often blame a bad result on the referee which leads to a culture where we all blame the referee. That cascades down the pyramid with the narrative of \u2018It\u2019s the referees fault.\u2019 You see Anthony Taylor being labelled the most hated referee but that\u2019s scandalous that he\u2019s been labelled as that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"1\">Q: What\u2019s been the worst refereeing mistake of the season so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cSergio Romero pulling Marc Cucurella\u2019s hair going unpunished. To me that was one of the most obvious red cards you\u2019ll see. Anthony Taylor was refereeing and didn\u2019t see it. Mike Dean was the VAR official and I know he\u2019s since said I got it wrong and said I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s not good enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"5\">Q: Would you like to see referees explain their decisions after a game?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cI think if referees came out and gave a fair and balanced post-match interview we\u2019d see them more as human beings and we\u2019d understand the difficulties they have with making decisions. I came out a few times and gave interviews on Sky, not to claim that I was always right but to give my side of how I saw an incident in the hope that people would hear my side and think OK fair enough. Because an incident can look totally different from two different angles. You have to accept that I might have got it wrong but from my angle it looked like a red card. I remember giving a penalty to Newcastle for a foul by Sol Campbell on Alan Shearer but straightaway Shearer came up to me and said that was never a penalty. Now you\u2019ve got VAR which is designed to help in that situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Is it a good idea for referees to wear bodycams?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201c100% yes. This is nothing new. Twenty years ago refs were being mic\u2019d up and we wanted to make it public. That\u2019s what they were doing in rugby at the time. The first thing they said was if a player comes at you just say you\u2019re on the mic. So they know and it tempered their response to you. But it was turned down by the PFA at the time because they didn\u2019t want their members exposed unfairly. But you think if you don\u2019t want to be exposed then don\u2019t behave like that. Back to 2023, yes a bodycam is a great idea. Players aren\u2019t sent off anymore for foul and abusive language any time because it\u2019s apparently part and parcel of the game. We were told not to be so sensitive and not to give red cards for it. We were told to calm the player down which goes against the laws of the game really.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Are referees fairly compensated for the stress and pressure of the job? Should they be paid more?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cI think what you have to look at is would the standard improve if we paid them more money? Refs probably earn in a year what the top players earn in a few days. Would players respect refs more if they were paid more? You\u2019d have to ask a player that. I was taunted with \u2018how much do you get paid\u2019 by millionaire players. But you can\u2019t pay refs millions because we\u2019re not here to watch refs, they\u2019re just here to facilitate a game of football. I think if you\u2019ve refereed for 10 or 12 years in the Premier League you shouldn\u2019t be scratching around to earn a living once you\u2019ve stepped down, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How did Pierluigi Collina become arguably the most respected referee in the history of the sport?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cPierluigi was given a gift at the age of 26 when he got alopecia. He says this himself. He showed us photos of him when he was young when he had loads of hair and no one could recognise him. He said see I\u2019m just normal here with hair. He said once he went bald he became very recognisable and it gave him this image. He used to say 90% of his job was done before he even stepped on the pitch which to me is incredible. Reputation counts for so much. And if he made a mistake he was still a good referee who made a mistake, not a bad referee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Is it a concern that there\u2019s a lack of young referees coming through?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019re not seeing many young referees coming though that\u2019s true but I don\u2019t mind if a ref is young, old, female or male we just want the best referees that we can get. I always say if there were 20 ex-Premier League footballers who wanted to become referees and do the job better than me, I\u2019d be more than happy to step down a level and say go on then because it\u2019s about the match being refereed well. It\u2019s a fact that an ex-player who played at the top level understands the game better than a referee no matter how much they might have studied the game. If you accept that then equally how can former players openly criticise referees when they\u2019ve nerve refereed. It works both ways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Could that open a can of worms because ex-players might have grudges against some teams from their playing days?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cPersonally I could go out and referee any team without being affected. If I had any sense of bias I shouldn\u2019t be out there. Mark Clattenburg for example is a massive Newcastle United fan so he couldn\u2019t referee them and then if they were in a relegation battle he wasn\u2019t allowed to officiate any of the last six matches of the season because it can impact Newcastle. So it\u2019s tricky from that perspective.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Is there a lack of diversity among referees?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> \u201cInteresting question. Uriah Rennie was a super referee and I recall him saying he was the only black referee on his training course. It was a difficult situation to step into but he was a massive character and he could deal with that. When you look at the percentage of black players you think it seems incongruous that there\u2019s so few black referees. If people don\u2019t want to referee they don\u2019t want to referee. You get a lot of abuse as a referee anyway, I can\u2019t imagine what it would be like as a black referee and be potentially subjected to racist abuse on top of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How did you rate the standard of refereeing at the Qatar World Cup?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GP:<\/strong> Overall I felt it was good I thought. The selection process means the vast majority of referees at the tournament are very competent. The Brazilian ref at the England vs France quarter-final it\u2019s probably fair to say didn\u2019t have his best game. There was a clear foul on Saka in the build up to France\u2019s first goal, that\u2019s a fact. It wasn\u2019t a World Cup dominated by major refereeing controversies as others have been in the past so overall yeah I felt it was good. I was delighted to see the Polish referee Szymon Marciniak get given the final. I thought Michael Oliver was excellent at Croatia vs Brazil and was unlucky not to be given a game further on in the tournament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Premier League referee Graham Poll has sat down in an exclusive interview with Casinos En Ligne. Poll believes Sepp Blatter was right and VAR is making things worse for referees, and also reveals the worst Premier League referring decision of the season so far. 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