with all the money pumped into football in recent years and the biggest tv deal approaching next season. isn't it about time that officials (that are now well paid professionals) should be contracted as part of the tv deal to give interviews to sky after games.
i think it is compulsory for managers to do so and they are often asked probing/difficult questions.
it was continually debated about the need for full-time professional referees at premiership level and (imo) the 'post match interview' should be written into their contracts.
still saying that, there would've been a queue at curry's in charlton this morning to replace smashed tv sets if poll & co had tried to defend that last night.
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Or are you just referring to live Sky games?
Poll should have been demoted to the CCL2 after the World Cup for his appalling performance there, the fact he's still officiating Prem games is a disgrace!!!!
i'm pretty sure (not 100%) that the managers must give an interview to sky at all prem games.
they don't have to for bbc hence the boycotts from redknapp, allardyce etc and carlos queiros (sp) usually does motd.
It is compulsory for someone from the management team to do TV afterwards - that's why the BBC still gets Carlos Quieroz at Man Utd, even though Taggart's still got the hump with them.
Uncle Les did do Boro interviews but didn't after Wycombe.
doesn't ferguson do the sky interviews though?
One sent Murphy off against Arsenal the other never sent Van Persie off -
All refs make mistakes it is how they react after them that makes them stand out.
To be fair to Poll no one can blame him for the decision last night he just went by his linesman. BUT get your point.
eh? how do you work that out? Pard's could see the decision was wrong & he was further away than Poll. If Poll had been doing his job properly he would have seen it was a wrong decision & over ruled it!!!!!!!
Yep. Fergie's refused to speak to the BBC since they aired a documentary about his son, a football agent. So he sends Quieroz to do the BBC interviews, and speaks to Sky himself.
it maybe because I'm a) bias b) still angry but Poll should have seen it.............most of the spectators in the East, North, West stands saw it & he was far closer than any of us (bar those in the east, who I have great respect for staying in their seats!!!!)
but it was poll who allowed the free kick to be taken a good 10 yards from the incident, where he had (imo) been particular about that sort of thing for the previous 93 mins.