{"id":178611,"date":"2025-10-04T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178611\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:37:10","slug":"chris-wilder-sheffield-united-boss-says-he-would-appeal-against-a-touchline-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178611\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wilder: Sheffield United boss says he would appeal against a touchline ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilder was also critical of the appointment of referee Adam Herczeg, who has been overseeing matches in the English Football League (EFL) since 2022-23, and was in charge of his third Championship game this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all make mistakes, managers and players included, but it seems we are a testing ground for referees,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If there are up-and-coming referees, why hasn&#8217;t the referee had more Championship games this season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a team [Southampton] that has come out of the Premier League against a team that went incredibly close in getting to the Premier League last season. This is a top-notch Championship game &#8211; regardless of league positions, it&#8217;s high-profile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s Stephen Martin, who is a top-class Championship referee being a fourth official at one of the games [Bristol City v Ipswich].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Why aren&#8217;t we being given an experienced referee for this fixture? This is the thing I don&#8217;t get &#8211; the appointment system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all know from experience the best ones go under the radar. Well, certainly, he didn&#8217;t go under the radar on Tuesday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilder was also critical of the appointment of referee Adam Herczeg, who has been overseeing matches in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}