Foster predicted on facebook that Froch would win in the 9th round!!

[Fenster]

The dodgy thing here really is the stoppage in round 9 and the Facebook prediction/like by the ref.. It's very unprofessional and a silly thing thing to do. It can show he wasnt impartial and makes a bad decistion look premeditated, but it's the bookies who get hit the hardest in corruption and they usually catch on with suspicious betting pattons pretty shapish

I don't think anything dodgy happened but I agree that an official giving an opinion before a fight they're involved in is stupidly naive and unprofessional.

[ross]

The dodgy thing here really is the stoppage in round 9 and the Facebook prediction/like by the ref.. It's very unprofessional and a silly thing thing to do. It can show he wasnt impartial and makes a bad decistion look premeditated, but it's the bookies who get hit the hardest in corruption and they usually catch on with suspicious betting pattons pretty shapish

I don't think anything dodgy happened but I agree that an official giving an opinion before a fight they're involved in is stupidly naive and unprofessional.

Yep, same as judges, have to be impartial.

Just like how they rotated refs for Hattons WBU title defences so it didn't look dodgy.....