Reply from FA regarding penalty decision

[spurs2rise]

I sent an email to the FA (cant find the thread, thats why i posted it here.. feel free to merge) regarding the penalty decision on behalf of 40 Spurs, Utd (even a Sheff Wed supporter was there) in Australia at 4am!!

I got a reply.. Thought id share it with you

Dear Robert,

Thank you for your email addressed to the FA, which has been passed to us to respond. We are sorry that you were disappointed with the referee’sperformance in the Manchester United v Spurs match, however please be assured that all of our referees are subject to the most stringent levels of assessment and accountability.

As you may be aware we receive numerous queries referring to individual referee's decisions and indeed in relation to their overall performance. Unfortunately we are unable to send a response for each individual incident.
We report back regularly to Professional Games Match Officials, the body which employs all the referees, to ensure that they are fully aware of all the feedback we receive, and we will make them aware of your comments.
It may be helpful for you to know the process undertaken by Professional Games Match Officials to monitor, scrutinise and improve the referee’s performances throughout the season. The performances of each ofthe Select Group Referees is reviewed with them in detail in a number of different ways. There is constant monitoring of referees’ performances, with a view to improving their performance from week to week. Referees are appropriately criticised if it is felt that decisions were wrong.
The referee’s technical performance in a match is assessed by the Independent Assessor, and their overall handling of the match is reported on by an Independent Match Delegate, who is often a former player, manager or coach. These reports focus on the referee’s control of the match, the way that he deals with key incidents as well as the way he communicates his decisions. These reports are shared with the referees on both a formal and informal basis. The aim is to help the referee to improve his performance, taking into account the scrutiny of each performance.
I do hope the above helps to clarify how we are constantly trying to improve and maintain standards of refereeing. This is a long term commitment and we will be maintaining our focus on this and introducing new measures. We do appreciate the views of our supporters. I would like to assure you that we are working hard with referees in order to strive for continual improvement.

Thank you for taking the time to contact us, feedback is important to us, and we hope that the work we are doing in this area will have a positive impact on the game.

Kind regards,

Communications Team

[paul turner]

the level of refs are poor they have no bottle but think we should forget about saturday and move on we have 5 games left we have to concentrate on them

[Seajay]

I got the same reply Spurs 2rise.

[thfcire]

bag of bollox reply probily a same responce to all