Some referees have to think about treating every player the same, even if it's Ronaldinho or another player from a Premiership club. It doesn't matter how good you are: you have to be treated the same.
You can't put your arm around the referee! That's ungentlemanly conduct.
In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game - 'We don't like him. He is no good.'
We knew that the referee [in primary debates] is on the side of the Democrats because the referee, whoever the referee is, is a Democrat first and a so-called journalist second. I mean, we know that Lester Holt did not challenge Hillary [Clinton].
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.
I don't like to criticise referees because I believe it is a very complicated job, and what they do is very beneficial for football.
For me to be speaking of the referees, then you know it must be something big.
There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting.
I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.
Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.
