They are called Referees and they are TERRIBLE

[Synical]

As soon as that Coote video came out the league was done

 

[Xln]

Why do you give this attention. The refs are out of house and look their position in league. You're giving energy and attention(what they want when you turn irrelevant) to a midtable club?

 

[Synical]

Why do you give this attention. The refs are out of house and look their position in league. You're giving energy and attention(what they want when you turn irrelevant) to a midtable club?

I'm reminding us why we hate them so much. Those days were awful. They deserve what's happening to them

 

[jake]

https://tribuna.com/en/blogs/victor-lindelof-chokes-mikel-merino-and-then-pushes-him-into/

So you can strangle people now nice….

 

[A_G]

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Eriksen must be great at maths how he figure it out.

And if that true then typical English refs error

 

[Synical]

Please don't give PGMOL any ideas

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

Please don't give PGMOL any ideas

On something like that, with no goal line tech and a goal line clearance, just give benefit of the doubt that it didn’t go in. No one’s going to complain. “Letter of the law” correct call though I guess, “spirit of the game” though, no way.

Also, terrible positioning for a ref anyways.

 

[Kobi]

Please don't give PGMOL any ideas

Michael Oliver after he does that against us at the Etihad

 

[A_G]

 

[jones]

On something like that, with no goal line tech and a goal line clearance, just give benefit of the doubt that it didn’t go in. No one’s going to complain. “Letter of the law” correct call though I guess, “spirit of the game” though, no way.

Also, terrible positioning for a ref anyways.

Goal doesn't stand, ref touches the ball it's a dropped ball.

 

[Jasard]

Please don't give PGMOL any ideas

Better finisher than [insert agenda here]

 

[Arsenal1508]

Way too high...should not earn more than $150K tops.

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

Wtf haha. Imagine getting this much and being this incompetent.

 

[Dokaka]

Wtf haha. Imagine getting this much and being this incompetent.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Thats crazy. PL can find better referees for half the money.

 

[Fallout]

On the contrary it's not enough

You have footballers making vastly more amounts who still risk everything on sports betting ... 240k isn't big enough to skew the risk vs reward calculus toward ethical outcomes

Nor is 240k big enough to encourage top talent to become referees ... instead you get stuck with underappreciated people who want power and have no other options to pursue in life

 

[jake]

On the contrary it's not enough

You have footballers making vastly more amounts who still risk everything on sports betting ... 240k isn't big enough to skew the risk vs reward calculus toward ethical outcomes

Nor is 240k big enough to encourage top talent to become referees ... instead you get stuck with underappreciated people who want power and have no other options to pursue in life

You can give them any salary it doesn’t matter as long as the management is incompetent nothing get better. You need accountability for your misstake if you get moved down for your misstake make a new bad misstake and get a top match next something is seriously ****ed up. Nothing any money can solve.

 

[Gooner Zig]

On the contrary it's not enough

You have footballers making vastly more amounts who still risk everything on sports betting ... 240k isn't big enough to skew the risk vs reward calculus toward ethical outcomes

Nor is 240k big enough to encourage top talent to become referees ... instead you get stuck with underappreciated people who want power and have no other options to pursue in life

I disagree.

Paying these current incompetent refs more $$ isn't magically going to make them perform better. The entire organization has to be burnt to the ground and re-made into a proper organization that embraces meritocracy and transparency.

We do the above, then we can have a conversation about whether referees should be paid more.

 

[Fallout]

I disagree.

Paying these current incompetent refs more $$ isn't magically going to make them perform better. The entire organization has to be burnt to the ground and re-made into a proper organization that embraces meritocracy and transparency.

We do the above, then we can have a conversation about whether referees should be paid more.

I don't disagree with any of the above

My point is more theoretical -- i.e. in general, the pay needs to be high enough to attract the best talent and discourage bad behavior

240k doesn't achieve that in my opinion

Said another way, I can think of two potential reasons why the FA hasn't managed to sort out the obvious issues at PGMOL:

1) The supply of capable referees is too low given the wages being paid, so referees don't feel the pressure to hold themselves accountable (they have too much negotiating power)

2) The FA itself is corrupt -- I don't know enough about this to theorize intelligently