Verð nú bara að koma þessu að hérna fyrst um Hamrana er talað.

Happy Easter Offsiders. And what better way to celebrate than by reminiscing about Eggert Magnússon? The Icelandic businessman (he’s a former biscuit importer/exporter) was the public face of a consortium that took over West Ham in November 2006, and was installed as chairman. Magnússon inherited all kinds of problems at Upton Park, not least of which was the bizarre deal bringing Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano - and a world of trouble - to the club.

With relegation looming, Magnússon made the bold but unpopular decision to replace Alan Pardew with Alan Curbishley. It brought one immediate result, a win over Man Utd, but then things continued to get worse. Eventually Curbishley (and Carlitos) somehow turned things around and West Ham narrowly (and very, very controversially) avoided relegation.

Still, big billionaire boss Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson (the second richest man in Iceland, the first richest being his son) was unhappy with the financial situation at West Ham. So in September 2007 Magnússon was demoted from executive chairman to non-executive chairman, which basically means “you have no power.” By December Gudmundsson had bought out Magnússon’s shares in the club and sent him back to Iceland.

All in all, an unhappy spell in English football for Eggert Magnússon. But it’s worth pointing out that he’s more than just a businessman with a funny name and a funny shaped head. Magnússon is a genuine football man. He served as President of the Icelandic Football Association, and was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee in 2002.

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Mascherano Off as Revenge of the Refs Begins

Premiership referees are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. No more being treated like some sort of parasite, no more listening Wayne Rooney’s limited vocabulary of mostly four letter words, and certainly no more shit from Mr. Ashley Cole.

Last Wednesday, Cole put in a nasty knee-high tackle on Spurs’ Alan Hutton that could easily have been worth a red card. But when Mike Riley tried to show Cashely a yellow, the Chelsea player gave the ref an earful of venom and refused to turn and face him. I would have sent Cole off purley for acting like a dick, but that’s probably why I’m not a Premiership ref. Mike Riley is, and he let its slide. The softy.

But no more. Javier Mascherano’s red card during Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat to Man Utd today was like a warning shot. The revenge of the refs has begun.

It all began when Fernando Torres was brought down by Rio Ferdinand. Torres won the free kick, but started giving out to Steve Bennett for not protecting him enough. So Bennett gave Torres a yellow for dissent. That got Mascherano mad, so the midfielder went over to argue with the ref. And then kept arguing. So Bennett gave Mascherano a yellow for dissent, the Argentinean’s second of the game, so he was off. And angry. It took Rafa Benitez, Steven Gerrard and others to calms Mascherano down and persuade him to leave the field.

In many ways Mascherano’s sending off ruined the game. Man Utd were already one up through Wes Brown’s header, and with a man advantage they scored two more in the second half. I’ve alos got some sympathy for Mascherano and Torres. They couldn’t have expected those cards, because last week they almost definitely would have gotten away with talking to Bennett like that.

But that was last week. Looks like this is a new era where refs don’t take shit from anybody. As with any new rules, it’s going to take some adjusting and there’s going to be a bit of controversy, as there was today.

But in the long run, this has to be a good thing. Increased respect for refs (with the threat of cards to back it up) means the men in the middle having more control, which is one piece in the puzzle of stamping out dangerous tackles from the game. Most importantly, these aren’t new rules. Booking players for dissent is an old rule, and a good one, because it supposedly to ensures the referee’s authority. So maybe now that rule is being enforced again Premiership refs will be able to get on with doing their job properly.

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