Friday, February 27, 2015

Premier League failures show it’s time to stop talking about referees

After an abject set of results in Europe why not lose the tedious and inane habit of ranting against officials

Well, that didn’t go very well did it? All things considered it has been a pretty devastating few days for the top end of Premier League, which will resume looking, beneath the powder and paint, a little bruised and bleary, wounds bound up with vinegar and brown paper. On the plus side the world’s richest league finally found a team it could beat on Thursday (in your face, Young Boys of Berne). But beyond this four lost matches out of five with an aggregate score of 8-3 to Abroad represents a pretty clear sense of collective defeat.


Exposed to tactically refined elite-level modern football the Premier League’s second- and third-placed teams came stumbling out of the trees like a group of 19th-century goat-herders catching a first glimpse across the plains of the steam-driven iron horse. Defeats for Liverpool and Tottenham simply maintained a pattern of energetic B-listerdom that has left English football providing three Europa League semi-finalists in the past eight years.


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source Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1C44N8V

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