Popey wrote:but I also think that its strange to give a match like that to a french ref. we've got a french manager and many french players. not very intelligent from the uefa. but that's nothing new.
back to the performance: very good performance overall. I just don't see why eddie, vela and ramsey always needs to start on the bench because players like diaby don't have to be on the pitch. we still have theo and nasri so what a squad we've got.
we also saw that eboué is still a great RB and that we should rotate more between our FB's. the same with clichy. why not starting with gibbs to give clichy a rest?
why is it not intelligent? it'd be a joke to not select a ref based on the fact a team has a manager/players from same country, as if it makes a difference, best not have any english referees in the premiership anymore .
you'd be pretty hard pressed in the CL to find a referee able to ref a match in which he has no nationality link to any player/manager on the pitch.
they'd be looking for an elite, qualified referee who isn't:
english, french, greek, ivorian, italian, belgian, spanish, russian, czech, danish, croatian, brazilian, mexican, welsh, danish, polish, etc.
and who doesn't follow english or greek football.
it's logitically impossible.