A Quote by Roy Keane

Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?

Roy Keane

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Football Game Sometimes Understand Wonder

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Roy Keane
Irish - Athlete
Born: August 10, 1971

I knew there were certain relationships that existed between referees and players, referees and coaches and referees and owners that influence the point spreads in games.

Tim Donaghy

I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you're playing on pitches that aren't great, you've no referee, you've no goal nets.

Jamie Carragher

Everyone makes mistakes, but when players or managers make mistakes, they are all accountable and have to take responsibility. When I talk about referees, you wonder, 'Can I say this?' You have to be careful - but they are the only group in the world of football who are treated like that.

Michael Laudrup

People talk about the speed of the English game, but in Italy, referees blow their whistles very often, so you cannot build up speed. In England, referees wave play on, and so it becomes faster.

Roberto Mancini

There are many penalties which referees don't see. Sometimes they are right, and many other times, they are wrong. That is football.

Sergio Ramos

I love the game just as much as anybody else. But at the same time, I also understand that life is more than football, too. People might get that misconstrued sometimes, too, that I don't care because I'm not die-hard football, eat, sleep and drink it all day and all night.

Julius Peppers

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

Luis Enrique

Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.

Sergio Ramos

Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing.

Tony Pulis

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

David Stern

Sometimes maybe it just doesn't go right in the game, but that's football, and I think I'm definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.

Jordan Pickford

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Jacques Barzun

I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.