{"id":100885,"date":"2023-09-19T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/19\/sheffield-boss-fumes-at-referees\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:27:18","slug":"sheffield-boss-fumes-at-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/19\/sheffield-boss-fumes-at-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Boss Fumes At Referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Paul Heckingbottom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United manager Paul Heckingbottom has hit out at the \u201cappalling\u201d level of referees in the Premier League after his side suffered a stoppage-time defeat at Tottenham on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League newboys were on course for their first win of the season through Gustavo Hamer\u2019s goal but Spurs sealed a dramatic victory with strikes from Richarlison and Dejan Kulusevski in the 98th and 100th minute respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Following the game, Heckingbottom was furious at the officials for a number of incidents throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officiating is appalling,\u201d he told Sky Sports in his postmatch interview. \u201cIt\u2019s not about the football decisions, just game management. My worry is that all the focus is on the yellow cards, time-wasting, the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus all of a sudden comes onto time-wasting, so they\u2019re dictating how we play. If you play to take goal kicks from the back, you set up one way, and if Spurs go against that, that dictates the decision you make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting told to just play long \u2014 you can\u2019t do it. Wes [Foderingham] got booked for handling outside the box and then you\u2019re threatening him with another yellow [for dissent], you just can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I speak to the referees, they haven\u2019t got a clue what I\u2019m talking about. They\u2019re officiating our games at the top level, and they simply do not know the game. We need to sort that, and sort it quick. 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