How does officiating improve?

BrianW said:
What we need are consistency and courage.
If a foul is a foul in one match, then it is in another.
If a foul is a foul on the halfway line, it's one in the penalty area.
If it's a foul in the 49th minute, it's one in the first.
Referees need to have the guts to give a penalty in the last minute against Liverpool at Anfield, Rags at OT, or even City at the Etihad, if a penalty is the correct decision.
I also happen to think we need an orange card - for offences that are not quite red, or where a second yellow is unduly harsh, and maybe we should consider sin bins for 15 minutes too.
I would love to see refs miked up, as in Rugby, but I would be amazed if that ever happens.
Finally, we need a timekeeper, with time wasted added on. Even if a match then lasts 120 minutes.
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The game wouldn’t last 120 mins as the players would stop fucking about and cheating
 
Until there is truly INDEPENDANT oversight of the governance of football in this country NOTHING will change. The question is, how can we guarantee independence when there is so much money sloshing around?
 
Why worry? We're top of the league. It'll never change - it never has, and no matter what they bring in, it never will.
It gives the dross something to feed off.
Happy days.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
As a player, I think you know the things that really piss you off in the game, but refs pick up on minutae no one cares about, or are persnickety about nothing then let things that help rile players up and create onfield hostility go without a word. They don’t seem to put the game into the PLAYERS perspective, only their own.
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From Clattenburg today:

"I think we, as referees, are sometimes guilty of knowing the laws of the game but we don't understand the game.
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That’s EXACTLY what I was saying above! They don’t understand the ACTUAL GAME OF FOOTBALL!!

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Clattenburg continued:
"VAR cannot get this wrong. Referees can, because they have a split second. VAR have all the angles, he's got all the slow-motion, he can see the point of contact.

"If they are saying that his (Robertson's) leg has to be planted, which is a new one to me, if the leg was high, the studs were showing, it's reckless, he's lunged. For me, he's endangered the safety of the opponent.”
 
ChicagoBlue said:
From Clattenburg today:

"I think we, as referees, are sometimes guilty of knowing the laws of the game but we don't understand the game.
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That’s EXACTLY what I was saying above! They don’t understand the ACTUAL GAME OF FOOTBALL!!

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Clattenburg continued:
"VAR cannot get this wrong. Referees can, because they have a split second. VAR have all the angles, he's got all the slow-motion, he can see the point of contact.

"If they are saying that his (Robertson's) leg has to be planted, which is a new one to me, if the leg was high, the studs were showing, it's reckless, he's lunged. For me, he's endangered the safety of the opponent.”
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But also Clattenburg revealed his true bias and why anything he says in this has to be taken with a large pinch of salt

"Robbo is lucky today that he's still walking. We should understand footballers more because he's not going to leave his leg there, why should he? He's not going to want his leg broken and his career put in doubt."

The word "Robbo" gives it away 100%.
 
NZBlue said:
But also Clattenburg revealed his true bias and why anything he says in this has to be taken with a large pinch of salt

"Robbo is lucky today that he's still walking. We should understand footballers more because he's not going to leave his leg there, why should he? He's not going to want his leg broken and his career put in doubt."

The word "Robbo" gives it away 100%.
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Clattenburg is a Geordie!
 
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