Fulham boss Roy Hodgson has slammed pundit Jamie Redknapp for
his attack on Chelsea ref Tom Henning Ovrebo.
Redknapp said Ovrebo was out of his depth because he was from
Norway.
Fulham boss Hodgson, said: “Do people want to go down the Jamie
Redknapp route — that only England, Italy and Spain count and
everywhere else is no good?”
Chelsea went out of the Champions League with a 1-1 draw, having
had four penalty appeals rejected by Ovrebo who has since received
death threats.
And TV pundit Redknapp said: “How many big games has he reffed
in Norway? I don’t know why we can’t have the best ref from Germany
or Italy.
“I don’t think someone from Norway should be reffing a game with
the intensity of this one.”
Hodgson, who has worked extensively in Scandanavia, hit
back.
He said: “Are we going to say, ‘You’re from Spain, you might be OK
but the rest of you, Switzerland, France, Poland, Russia, Austria,
Ukraine, Slovenia, Serbia, can go f*** yourselves
because you don’t count?’ It’s nonsense.”