Graham Smyth on Boro linesman

Yorkshire Evening Post

YEP chief football writer Graham Smyth weighs in on the debate surrounding the EFL assistant referee to have incorrectly ruled out three Leeds goals over the past eight weeks

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00:00ultimately in football even when you're most aggrieved and there's been an injustice against

00:11your team you're not likely to get any real satisfaction because these people are not

00:16particularly accountable they're not answerable and and that is a reason for concern and that is

00:22a reason for for anger now and again because you want someone to pay for these errors you want to

00:28know that there's a consequence to these mistakes happening over and over again but as far as our

00:34powers of investigation go we're fairly limited to just putting on a bit of pressure and asking the

00:39questions asking leads you know if they'll take any action i think we also have to keep in mind a

00:43little bit of perspective i don't think that it's likely that someone would have a prop such a

00:49problem with leeds united that they would be intentionally robbing them of goals i think the

00:54other point to make is that he has cost leeds united precisely zero points um in fact if

01:01anything he's a good luck charm because every time he dislikes a goal incorrectly leeds united win the

01:05game and they keep a clean sheet i mean it's incredible it's shocking um it's really really

01:11bad it's really bad officiating and there's there's not a great deal as you can say about that uh i i

01:17don't think there's corruption at play but i i do think that there's competency issues that need to

01:24be addressed and i think farkin made a really good point that whoever is in charge of selecting

01:29officials for games needs to get their head out of their backside now and protect this fella and also

01:39protect leeds united and just protect the game because if there were to be another incident and

01:43if there were to be an incident that went against the opposition you know it went in legion at its

01:48favor that was particularly egregious then there'd be serious questions to be asked as well

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