Rebecca Welch

[fOWLmouth]

Retirement from refereeing announced.

I don’t think we’ll miss her.

[Reesh]

I won't with a crossbow.....

 

The useless ****.

[mkowl]

19 minutes ago, fOWLmouth said:

Retirement from refereeing announced.

I don’t think we’ll miss her.

Will she get a tea towel as a retirement gift 

[fOWLmouth]

5 minutes ago, mkowl said:

Will she get a tea towel as a retirement gift 

She wouldn’t know what it was for if her refereeing is a comparison.

[Reesh]

14 minutes ago, fOWLmouth said:

She wouldn’t know what it was for if her refereeing is a comparison.

She awarded the Iron a goal kick.

[Beaconowl]

Is she the one that made that ridiculous decision at Oxford?

[Reesh]

22 minutes ago, Beaconowl said:

Is she the one that made that ridiculous decision at Oxford?

Yes

[fOWLmouth]

30 minutes ago, Reesh said:

She awarded the Iron a goal kick.

And we’re not talking West Ham are we.😉

[Reesh]

5 minutes ago, fOWLmouth said:

And we’re not talking West Ham are we.😉

No, Morphy Richards, she went to VAR when loading the washing machine.

[Malcolm Darling]

2 hours ago, fOWLmouth said:

Retirement from refereeing announced.

I don’t think we’ll miss her.

There is a God🙏

[tomcore]

Fantastic.... until she turns up as an "expert" pundit.

[Tylluan]

She's gone to the PGMOL to be the new head of women's officiating and will also head up the new fast track coaching system being set up. 

The idea is to have more female officials in the PL and EFL within three years but it's diversity signalling. Where does it leave the pathway for male officials if they know they might miss out because of a quota 

[Owling_Wolf]

If she's organising refs'training, god help them!  And the womens game!!

[mkowl]

I don't think Owlsonline should enter the Feminism Awareness Award for most progressive thinking social media site this year 😃

[Tylluan]

9 hours ago, Owling_Wolf said:

If she's organising refs'training, god help them!  And the womens game!!

Like every bloated organisation when it says 'head of' they aren't taking a hands on approach to the actual organising. 

She's the poster girl. The one who, rightly or wrongly, was fast tracked into the men's game and up to the highest pinnacle. She fell short, for whatever reason, but PGMOL and the PL and EFL were left with a situation they'd created that they couldn't bury as a failed experiment, especially as the French, Spanish, and Italians had had FIFA accredited female refs in men's football since 2019. 

So to solve the fact she's not up to the standard you ask her to retire and give her the job of 'leading' the next generation. 

UEFA want 20% of officials at the next Euros to be 'identifying as non male' (make of that what you will) in order to show diversity and inclusion within the sport. Seeing as it's being hosted in the UK, the FA want to send one all female crew and that's why the timeframe of regular PL games within 3 years has been placed. 

[EastCraigsOwl]

38 minutes ago, Tylluan said:

UEFA want 20% of officials at the next Euros to be 'identifying as non male'.

Look forward to Scotland vs Turkey, reffed by a traffic cone.

[Reesh]

5 minutes ago, EastCraigsOwl said:

Look forward to Scotland vs Turkey, reffed by a traffic cone.

Better than your defence resembling them...

[Tewksbury]

I don't get diversity in professional sport.

Whatever colour/nationality/whatever they are, they're still the top 0.01%, either physically or financially.

[HappyOwl]

As Harry Enfield would say Know your limits

Edited August 30, 2024 by HappyOwl
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