I think constantly calling it corruption lets them get away with what’s really wrong… they’re inept!
Just seen Ivan Toney get a penalty for fouling the defender. Bournemouth fans probably think that’s corruption but it’s not, it’s just bad officials making bad decisions.
That linesman and ref today at Old Trafford panicked and didn’t take into account what happened properly and were just taken away with the emotions of the occasion and the United players surrounding them because they are weak.
Officials don’t know the game. If they did, they’d know that Toney initiated that contact and they’d know that Rashford’s actions caused Ederson to be where he was looking right at Rashford and not seeing Fernandes.
I think both codes of rugby are currently better sports than football because of it.
In both codes of rugby teams are penalised regularly for infringements that in football are just accepted as ‘part of the game’, that in reality are ruining the game.
In both codes of rugby there is accountability and punishment for delaying the game, play just continues when someone is rolling around pretending to be injured (or even if they’re injured), only captains can speak to the officials, if team ever surrounded the ref they’d have men sent to the Sin Bin…
In both codes of rugby the officials have far more control over the game. In both sports where mental cases are trying to break the opposition in half, players call the referee ‘Sir’ and have respect.
In both codes of rugby the officials have a better understanding of the game they’re officiating and know the laws of the game much better.
In football there needs to be more made of the ineptness of the officials and a demand for it to be improved upon.
