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They are called Referees

Are you for VAR or not?


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Arsenal4life14

Active Member
Whilst the death threats arent needed it has become a joke now, The FA have brought this upon themselves for refusing to deal with the problem in the first place. The standard of refereeing in England has become quite frankly shocking. VAR is actually bringing it to the surface a lot more now, its exposing the officials and the FA for what they really are, corrupt! They can't hide now because there is no reason for them to be making these shocking calls anymore with VAR.

It also doesnt help that football is soft as **** now, 30-40 years ago it was probably a bit too rough but now its completely gone the other way where freekicks, penalties, bookings are all given out like sweets. Were at a point where any tiny bit of contact can win you a freekick or penalty.
 

Manberg10

Member
The problem is the lack of accountability for referees. Managers and players can’t criticise referees or they get punished. I think broadcasters are kept in check too. It’s very much run like a dictatorship. Referees need to be held accountable for their mistakes and there needs to be that transparency for the fans.

My suggestion would be to have an official referees table where referees are ranked by external parties based on the correctness of each and every one of their decisions and that has an effect on their game allocations. Will never happen though.
 

AbouCuéllar

Author of A-M essays 📚
Watching West Ham vs Fulham incident, VAR’s check, and how many views it took **** that Mike Dean has left me finally convinced, VAR isn’t actually meant to clean up the game it 100% is a tool by the PL to drive content and engagement. Fans online talk about each new incident, compare it to times their team was ****ed over previously, and the **** talking heads have a constant stream of **** to “debate”.

The other, much more simple and occam's razor explanation: English referees are just incompetent.

Honestly think the PL needs to raise the quality of refereeing by quite some level. That Dean, Moss etc. are allowed to keep on going year in and year out while being such poor referees has built up this massive frustration among the fan base. VAR isn't helping one bit either as their incompetence as a group just becomes all the more obvious. VAR instead of helping correct clear and obvious errors has become a nit pickers way to write off goals for offside while slowing things down.

The sheer incompetence is just so frustrating. The fact that crazy fouls don’t even get a yellow while small brushes are given reds. It’s just all over the place. Think both the refereeing body and the rule makers at the PL need a shake up.

Exactly.
 

CaseUteinberger

Established Member

Country: Sweden
Have you seen Jon Moss lately? Looks more like Santa than a pro ref and is is only fit for VAR duties. His eyesight and judgment have gone, so he's useless but still employed.
Thought PL and Championship referees were full time employees and e.g. Mike Dean earning around GBP 200,000 a year. Is that incorrect?
 

Mrs Bergkamp

Double Dusted
Dusted 🔻
Thought PL and Championship referees were full time employees and e.g. Mike Dean earning around GBP 200,000 a year. Is that incorrect?
I believe you're correct. My response was to @Pyromaniac who said German officials are not full time pros. It's astonishing how competent they are in comparison and also how much fitter looking. Jon Moss is a disgrace. If SAF can call out Alan Wiley for not being fit enough to ref then there's no way Moss should be anywhere near a football match in his state.
 

Mo Britain

Doom Monger
Here's one potential solution. Train up three or four times as many referees as you need, then you have a pool of "talent" so that referees who keep making mistakes don't have to be called in to referee because there's no one else.
 

jgirolami

Active Member
Here’s another thing. Deans allegedly of no fit mind to ref this weekend, but is available to put himself in the fire pit by reffing an f.a cup game this midweek. The words money money money spring to mind. Bet they get additional money for cup games and because there on a salary lose fook all for having himself a free weekend.
 

Aussie_gunner123

Established Member

Country: Australia
Anyone surprised by this, anyone thought this was right? Imo finally a referee has come out & said a lot of the refereeing is pretty corrupt which I've always had a feeling about.
 

CaseUteinberger

Established Member

Country: Sweden
It happened again.

The VAR decision not awarding the pen on the first foul on Saka was just unreal. The second they simply couldn’t but I bet if the first hadn’t happened they would have tried. The PL refs and the FA have it in for us. No doubt about it!
 

simba

Manberg Again
Seen the penalty that wasn’t given today again. VAR chose to show the angle where you can’t see the trip on Saka, only showed the arm contact. It was a penalty and they tried to mess things up for us again. Also, why didn’t the Leeds keeper get a yellow?

Yet again, decisions going in the favour of our opponents.
 

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