Premiership Referees are getting worse!

These Premiership referees are definitely going off their trolleys! Every week now, we see a truly ludicrous refereeing decision...or two...or three...or four. This week there were no crazy goals but how on earth Collins was allowed to stay on the pitch at White Hart Lane is completely beyond me. Never mind that it was a cynical professional foul, calculated to take Lennon out and prevent a goal scoring opportunity, Ginge made contact with both feet off the ground and took Lennon out around his shins.

Now I have a huge amount of time for Collins and see his sale as one of the biggest mistakes the club has made in recent years, but that does not excuse that challenge. Collins had a resigned look on his face after the tackle and must have been expecting a red card. The failure of Clown in Chief Clattenburg to produce the appropriate card is typical of this guy's erratic refereeing. I well remember that flying two footed Kuyt challenge against Everton a couple of seasons back, which Clattenburg alone thought merited just a yellow. You wonder if a player is going to have to suffer a terrible leg break before this idiot understands what constitutes a red card challenge!

He was not alone, however. Some of the Blackburn tackling in the game at Stoke had me flinching as I watched MOTD. But Howard Webb, true to his performance in the World Cup Final, thought that thuggery was acceptable and kept his red card in his pocket even when witnessing a two footed lunge aimed directly at an opponent's lower leg. It was a horror tackle that had leg break written all over it but Webb thinks that karate kicks to the head are acceptable so why would he act against a challenge that only risked breaking a leg?

I know referees have a difficult job to do but, in my opinion, these guys are taking incompetence to new levels!