It's Official: Premiership Referess are Rubbish

That's it, I have had it: Premiership refs are rubbish compared to their European counterparts. Wenger called the linesman in the Carling Cup Final a liar for claiming Adebayor punched Lampard. An ex-ref has since called Wenger out of order.

Wenger has a point, the entire system is miserable. Arsenal are the quite possibly the least fouling team and a team that gets fouled the most, but our players are not treated equally. I watched Kolo Toure get bookedin a New York minute for a first challenge in amtch against one of "physical" teams; I think it was Wigan. Senderos shown a straight red against Boro. Gilberto shown a red against Blackburn for barely flapping at the most "physical" player in the league. Gimme a fucking break. Cookie is right, the inconsistencies from the refs are maddening. The refs seem to know their rulebook when it comes to Arsenal players, and then throw it out just as quickly against so-called "physical" players.

Actually, I bet you if you looked at the stats, you will find foreign players get booked disproportionately more frequently by these refs. But that's a subject for another day.