As bad/bent as the refs are the biggest travesty imo is that no one in the media calls them out in any meaningful way.
This is meant to be the age of big data so it should be quite easy to research all the data over a season and present it to the public to either show something very worrying or reassuring.
And this meant to be the time that all the honest to goodness media are standing up to the great evils of false news. You hear it everywhere these days but it's just lazy bullshit because they don't seem to have any interest in the most obvious fact-changing in the British culture.
Journalists in the main are complete shits, just like the majority of modern professional football referees.