{"id":55535,"date":"2024-10-25T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-howard-webb-names-best-player-among-premier-league-referees\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:04:41","slug":"epl-howard-webb-names-best-player-among-premier-league-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-howard-webb-names-best-player-among-premier-league-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Howard Webb names best player among Premier League referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PGMOL chief, Howard Webb, has named Michael Oliver as the best player among the Premier League\u2019s referees.<\/p>\n<p>One of the criticisms that have been targeted at match officials, is that they lack understanding of the game, because they have never played it at a high level.<\/p>\n<p>But Webb insists there is plenty of talent among the referees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you it\u2019s not John Brooks,\u201d Webb told Malaysian outlet Stadium Astro when asked who the best player was among referees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them are kind of frustrated footballers to a certain extent. And I\u2019m sure if they see this back they will all be expecting their name to be mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think probably the one I would say who has got the most talent is Michael Oliver. He\u2019ll love that. He\u2019ll love hearing his name in that. But he\u2019s a good footballer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Howard Webb names best player among Premier League referees<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGMOL chief, Howard Webb, has named Michael Oliver as the best player among the Premier League\u2019s referees. One of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,4093,15,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-howard-webb","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}