{"id":577298,"date":"2026-05-11T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577298\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:38:09","slug":"sam-burgess-warrington-wolves-boss-says-referees-should-be-held-accountable-by-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577298\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Burgess: Warrington Wolves boss says referees should be held accountable by media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the two Wire captain&#8217;s challenges ruled inconclusive, the first was a Ben Currie ball steal while video referee Chris Kendall reached the same conclusion on a Joe Philbin knock-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Hull KR were successful with two captain&#8217;s challenge calls of their own, with an on-field decision of a knock-on overturned as well as a later penalty call. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked for his thoughts on the refereeing calls in his post-match press conference, Burgess said: &#8220;Can I answer inconclusive?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You guys [referring to the media] all do your job properly. You should keep them accountable. I can&#8217;t do it because every time I tell the truth they fine me to put me back in my box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you guys ask good questions and get access to the right people, they should be sat in front of the media as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to be careful what I say because I&#8217;ll be in trouble if I tell the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the two Wire captain&#8217;s challenges ruled inconclusive, the first was a Ben Currie ball steal while video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-577298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577298","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=577298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}