Full confidence in our professional refs

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  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    pathman

    I don't think it has been done scientifically.

    For me, if you wanted to trust the data, you'd need a panel of qualified refs to watch each game, with an agreed list of what would count as 'referrable', and for a decision to be seen as wrong, they would need to be all in agreement, effectively identifying genuine errors in law or interpretation, rather than shades of interpretation.

    What that site works on is a 3/5 'Well I reckon' majority, and there is no indication of the panel's qualifications to make such judgements, nor any criteria for how they decide what to look at.

    With such a complete absence of methodology or proof of qualification, its hard to give their findings too much credence.
  • DeanscaleshammerDeanscaleshammer
    NE - You could be right! I guess I watch Rugby and have an irrational hope that Football could be similar. Maybe it has gone too far and we can't reverse the trend?
  • Slaven_Cups_His_BeardSlaven_Cups_His_Beard
    Why can't refs just use a certain amount of commonsense?

    They don't help themselves......and the authorities seem to be happy to let them take the flack

    Either get them help......or replace them with better and hold them accountable properly for a job that earns them a decent salary.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited July 2016
    Much stricter response to players disputing decisions or verbally abusing officials:

    http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36844570

    This is good to see, but please, can they do something about the MMA defending in the penalty area?

    I agree that officials should be treated with respect, but if I could change one thing in football, being nasty to officials wouldn't be top of my agenda.
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    To be fair, it would be top of my agenda as, if something as common as holding and pulling in the penalty area is to be punished, the referees will be copping the flak. Now if you first adress the way the players can adress the referee (or can't) then it makes life for them a lot easier.

    But just so I understand these new rules properly, does that mean that Rooney will be booked next time he comes to the ref for a cuddle? ;)

  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    I think in those situations it would be probably be let go.

    I must admit, I noticed a lot more contact between players and refs last season, with many players putting a hand on the refs.

    I think if it is at the start of an incident, they should get booked according to the laws, whereas I can see a situation where a captain pats the ref to say fair enough, and that not being punished.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited July 2016
    Good to see fans taking a keen interest in the laws of the game, and making sure they understand them before posting a comment that would make them look a right twerp:
    James Pinsker: So if a referee gets jogged into mid-match when in the way of a player, the player gets a yellow card! Absolute rubbish!
    From BBC Sportsday

    Think that deserves a bit of an old ;doh
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