Referee Uriah Rennie...

[Mosiah]

Yuh tink yuh see nutten yet? If Ince fails...

[Assasin]

exactly.

[Me]

Whether them want to paint the rest with Uriah, I don't know, but he is still the worst ref I have seen.

[Gamma]

i don't think he is too great either (not sure if he's the worst) but have no fear, if black people objectively think that he is no good can you imagine ......? i can just see the rationale..."this is not racial, even black people agree that he is no good".

[Assasin]

The fact is if there were more black Ref, he wouldn't be held up as poster boy. If him nuh good them could have sent him to championship or d4 long time.

Last week the refs made a lot of mistakes, with Terry and the ref for the Stoke City vs Everton game was a disaster. These refs will be in the lower leagues for this week. We don't follow them so it wouldn't matter one bit as next time out we will not recognize that it is the same ref.

The fact that our eye is glued unto the one black ref, he would either be outstanding or bad.

[Me]

He was sent to the Championship. He was consistently garbage.

[Assasin]

Uriah Rennie

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Uriah RenniePersonal informationFull nameUriah D RennieDate of birthOctober 23, 1959 (1959-10-23) (age 48)Place of birth Sheffield, South Yorkshire, EnglandOther occupation MagistrateDomesticYearsLeagueRole ? -1994
1994-1997
1997-Northern Premier League
Football League
Premier LeagueReferee
Referee
RefereeInternational2000-2005FIFA listedRefereeUriah D. Rennie (born 23 October 1959[1] in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is an English football referee officiating in the FA Premier League and other competitions.
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• <LI class=toclevel-1>1 Career <LI class=toclevel-1>2 Career statistics <LI class=toclevel-1>3 Life outside football <LI class=toclevel-1>4 References
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[edit] Career

He began refereeing in 1979 in local leagues, then operated in the Northern Premier League until 1994, at which time he was appointed to the Football League List of referees.
He was given his first Premiership appointment on 23 August 1997, controlling the 2-0 away win by Crystal Palace at Leeds United, goals being scored by Paul Warhurst and Attilio Lombardo.[2]
In the year 2000, he became a FIFA referee.[3]
Rennie made footballing history as the first black referee to officiate in the top tier of English football. In 2001, he joined the Select Group of professional referees. Keith Hackett, head of the Professional Game Match Officials Board has described him as "the fittest referee we have ever seen on the national and world scene."[4]
He refereed the 2001 (old) Football League Division One Play-off Final between Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, when Bolton won 3-0 with goals from Farrelly, Ricketts and Gardner. Uriah did not show a red or yellow card at all during the match.[5]
At the end of the 2004-05 season, he retired from the FIFA list, at the compulsory age of 45.
Like many high-profile referees in top-flight football, Rennie has attracted criticism from within the game. In November 2005, he was mentioned in a remark by a stadium announcer at a Football League Championship match between Preston North End and Crystal Palace. It was announced over the tannoy as the teams came back onto the pitch after half time: "Welcome to the second half of the Uriah Rennie show".[6] His refereeing came under criticism yet again on December 16, 2006 after Southampton's 2-0 victory over Norwich, with Canaries' manager Peter Grant claiming: "It's scandalous the way he talks to players. He shows them no respect, and yet expects respect back. With this referee it's all about him. People come to watch the players and be entertained, not to watch the referee."[7]
On August 21, 2007, The Sun newspaper announced that Rennie had been withdrawn from the list of referees after failing the prescribed fitness tests and that he would not referee again until he passed one. These tests are re-taken after one month.[8]
However, his failure of the tests actually turned out to be due to a hamstring injury.[9] He made his return to active refereeing on November 24, 2007, handling the Championship match between Scunthorpe United and Hull City, which finished as a 2-1 away win.[10]

[edit] Career statistics

SeasonGamesTotal per gameTotal per game1997/1998271023.78100.371998/1999271174.3470.261999/200028963.43100.362000/200139822.1080.212001/200234862.5250.152002/200331822.65100.322003/200424793.2910.042004/200531642.0620.062005/200644942.1450.112006/2007391233.1550.132007/200821592.8070.33(There are no available records prior to 1997/1998)

[edit] Life outside football

He practices both kick-boxing and aikido, and has a Master's degree in Business Administration and Law. He is also a magistrate in Sheffield. [11] He is married with one daughter. [4]

[edit] References

[Assasin]

His record is acutally better than Mike Riley when it comes to blunders.

[Me]

Yeah right. Uriah's worst games make Riley look like Collina.