Darragh MacAnthony speaks out about his DMAC102 Twitter account and the Truth

Oct. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- DARRAGH MacAnthony wants referees to experience the ups and downs of promotion and relegation.

The Posh chairman took to Twitter again to express his disappointment with the officiating during his side’s 3-2 defeat by Leeds at London Road on Saturday.

As a result he could well face his second FA fine of a season just 13 matches old, but while MacAnthony will probably pay for his mistakes, he believes referees should as well.

MacAnthony, in an interview with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, said: “We have an elite group of referees in the Premier League so why can’t we have the same in the Championship?

“At the end of the season they could get promoted or relegated depending on how well they did. We all make mistakes in football and we all have to answer for them, but there appears to be no recourse for officials.

“The Championship is already distorted from a financial point of view so a little bit of fairness on the pitch wouldn’t go amiss. I still see a small club syndrome in evidence and anyone who has seen the recent games against Doncaster, Cardiff and Leeds will understand my frustrations.

“There are assessors watching games and I often wonder what they must be thinking.

“Darren Ferguson came and sat on the sofa in my office after the Leeds match and I had to practically resuscitate him. He was flattened by the defeat and the manner of it.

“He didn’t want to talk to the media because he knows he wouldn’t be able to tell the truth.

“I really felt for him as we’d pulled off a great comeback, time was up, it was never a free-kick and Leeds score a winning goal.

“Obviously I have to be careful because I keep getting hammered, but what am I supposed to do as an owner? Bite my lip and say nothing when I see injustices?

“In future I will go on Twitter and start everything with ‘my wife says’ and then I can’t get fined.

“I shouldn’t anyway because I see Twitter as me talking to my friends in private.

“Instead these institutions try to implement censorship and hand out fines.”

You can follow Darragh MacAnthony on Twitter here http://twitter.com/#!/DMAC102