Ray Winstone backs the FA’s Respect campaign
Posted By Rob Parker on March 23, 2009
Hollywood hardman is reffin’ and blindin’
Mild-mannered actor and West Ham fan Ray Winstone has lent his support to the FA’s Respect campaign in this new commercial. Winstone takes on the part of an over-enthusiastic dad giving it a bit of verbal and a more laidback narrator who is happy just to watch the action.
Come on you irons
Absolutly first class video
I was a manager of a boys team for 9 years and gave up my weekend to try and
build a team of young boys who could become the future of football.
I Can understand how a referee feels when he get abused verbal for managers on the touchline from week to week.
They only get paid £20.00 per match which covers there expenses to and from the matches.
Managers do get frustraited when decisions go the wrong way and expecially when you team is losing.
Referees should be treated with more respect because without them in the middle you would’t have a game.
[...] In modern football, a tackle from behind is always likely to get you at least a booking. But if the tackle from behind also happens to be on the referee then you really are asking for trouble. The two teams are Austrian outfits Rapid Vienna and Kapfenburg. We are not sure which player did most damage to the ref. Clearly they have not been listening to Uncle Ray. [...]