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Stop expecting perfection from us - top referee

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Like I said earlier players cheat which Smurf didn’t comment on.I don’t think you can level that at refs
 
Blind defence? I think I am more of an authority to comment about referees than someone that has done the odd game.And using the term “cowardice” yea right.We make honest decisions,so you will always get one team disagreeing with your decisions,notwithstanding the assessor that might be watching,so being a coward as you so quaintly called refs wouldn’t wash
Paul, I've seen enough officials shit out of giving decisions for decades. The fact you can't acknowledge this is not my problem.
 
Just being realistic as regards a profession which is in danger of being overly criticised and insulted these days. Without refs we have no game ! I've been watching games since 1968 and overall no better or worse in my opinion. But TV replays highlight the worse is all. It's a thankless job tbh and all I would say is they make hundreds and hundreds of decisions, mostly correct ..and the system broadly evens itself out.
Football is one of the only sports in the world where the officials are routinely shit week in week out. Make out of that what you like.
 
Like I said earlier players cheat which Smurf didn’t comment on.I don’t think you can level that at refs
I did reply to that comment, I'm not surprised you missed it though, now that I know you've got a whistle and a set of cards.

Enough of us going back and forth, it will only spoil the reading of others.
 
The issue is when you have adults masquerading as petulant babies for 90 minutes then they surrender any objectivity and degree of impartiality to what is in front of them

Its the nature of the beast, you and I are not going to agree with any decision that goes against the team that we give our die hard support to

Evidence is on this thread really

Pick up a whistle and challenge yourself.
 
The issue is when you have adults masquerading as petulant babies for 90 minutes then they surrender any objectivity and degree of impartiality to what is in front of them

Its the nature of the beast, you and I are not going to agree with any decision that goes against the team that we give our die hard support to

Evidence is on this thread really

Pick up a whistle and challenge yourself.
Not talking about subjective decisions, we’re talking about blatant mistakes.
 
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It's a fact. There is a major fuck up in at least one game every week just in the premier league let alone in the other 3 divisions.
The specific stats will unlikely bear out this generalisation across four divisions, but while I still maintain referees are no better/ worse overall over the years, it's TV analysis which has majorly skewed criticisms ...and how you improve refs to counter that slow-mo technology, I'm simply not sure. They are still only human and referring to them as "routinely shit" is bollox and counter- productive.
 
The specific stats will unlikely bear out this generalisation across four divisions, but while I still maintain referees are no better/ worse overall over the years, it's TV analysis which has majorly skewed criticisms ...and how you improve refs to counter that slow-mo technology, I'm simply not sure. They are still only human and referring to them as "routinely shit" is bollox and counter- productive.
Referees in rugby, cricket, tennis are also human, we don't seem them making high profile mistake every week.

Get better at what you do, it's not that hard.
 
Referees in rugby, cricket, tennis are also human, we don't seem them making high profile mistake every week.

Get better at what you do, it's not that hard.
You can't compare tennis or cricket to football ! Footy refs have hundreds of decisions to make each game involving the actions of 22 players. Rugby refs also have far less cheating.

Overall, refs do a decent job, they know the laws far far better than the average fan, who is biased anyway, and a throwaway line of "get better at what you do" is so easy to say when their competence bar is quite high already. They can't compete with TV slow-motion. So accept they make mistakes, like players, and live with it, is all I say. But don't drive them out of our game.
 
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Referees in rugby, cricket, tennis are also human, we don't seem them making high profile mistake every week.

Get better at what you do, it's not that hard.
I think football fans (and I include myself in this) are less accepting of referee mistakes than in rugby, cricket and tennis.
In fact I’m more accepting of a poor refereeing decision in rugby than I am in football. Maybe it’s because I’m not as invested in rugby, but I am a fan of it.
 

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