Graham Poll has claimed that he decided to retire from refereeing a season early because the Football Association would not back him in his row with Chelsea after he sent off John Terry for two bookable offences.
Poll, 43, who refereed the Championship play-off final at Wembley on Monday, disputes TerryÂ’s claim that he had changed his mind about the reason for dismissing the Chelsea captain during a bad-tempered game against Tottenham in November.
Poll dismissed Terry for two bookable offences in a stormy match against Tottenham last November.Terry claimed Poll told him to “F*** off” and the official had changed his mind over the reason for the red card
Chelsea players had alleged after the match that Poll had told two of them that their discipline was “out of order” and that they “needed to be taught a lesson”.
Terry was fined £10,000 after admitting improper conduct but Poll said he was shocked when the FA would not charge Chelsea after he had reported the club for intimidation.though he was not ban for the next match.
Poll now says that he is disappointed by FA chief executive Brian BarwickÂ’s failure to support him in the face of ChelseaÂ’s allegations. He feels that the FA are not standing up for the thousands of people who referee matches at every level of the game.
Thanks FA for not backing a bias ref that disallow drogba goal from an corner claiming to have saw a foul 40 yards out and sending John Terry Off For Various Different Reasons
Seems Like our next year title challange is Looking good
iceFatboy
2nd referees to retire due to blue influences...
surely all the rest are all for the BLUES...
the BLUES to win everything for ever and ever....
ghimpheng
Originally posted by iceFatboy:
2nd referees to retire due to blue influences...
surely all the rest are all for the BLUES...
the BLUES to win everything for ever and ever....
haha not the blues influences
is that FA never back him so he very upset
FA never ask him to quit just that they never back him that time and he keep ponder over it because he is bias against chelsea