Dion Fanning
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589 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5d ago
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And it reminds me there was the there was a the f famous time, it was nearly 20 years ago now when the Premier League launched a respect the ref campaign.
And um there was, you know, it was kind of heavily backed by the Daily Mail and there was this big kind of media onslaught about how we need to respect the ref.
And I think one match, Manchester United played Liverpool at Old Trafford, Javier Mascherano
Who didn't read the Daily Mail, clearly, uh
um uh sort of sort of verbally abusing the referee and got sent off and couldn't believe it.
And but this was the only person who was ever whoever w was was sanctioned during this respect the ref campaign.
And you know this is the problem with some of these things.
Uh there are so many directives.
English football is
addicted to sort of a certain type of bureaucratic procedure.
And I would argue that Arsenal capitalised on that by being a very bureaucratic team themselves.
Last year we saw how they were in constant contact over the course of the season with the Referees Association, asking them
you know, if if what would what would what would their interpretation be of certain or certain situations?
And they and they gamed it like that.
So it was a very uh methodical, kind of almost rugby style approach to to football, which nobody wants to see.
And
I think those things need to be really be changed, but it I don't know if what they're doing now is gonna is gonna actually create the environment for that and whether or whether the teams, as you say, Matt, the teams are so geared now to
um set pieces taking so long at corners, all these things that actually
take the momentum out of the game and have changed the pace of the game.
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