Ref Watch

[Paladin]

We will never get officials of the standard required in this sport while we have fans and players who treat them as they currently do. The standard and size of talent pool required will just never get involved in officiating. It’s as simple as that.

It’s exactly the same with teachers, same with the Police, same with politicians…

Treat people in tough jobs like shit and you will reduce the talent pool, recruit shit and get shit officiating/teaching/policing/politicking back.

The officials aren’t shit because they get a bit of stick. They’re shit because of the level of shit they get (and that’s anything up to death threats) plus the over-scrutinisation of every single one of their instant decisions (they make fewer mistakes than the players and managers do!) everything is looked at in the studio a dozen times and then all week on things like SSN, from ten angles, zoomed in, slowed down… the refs don’t get to see anything like that, they see it once from one angle at one speed and have to make a decision there and then… this stops people wanting to get involved in refereeing from the outset.

I think fans and pundits are completely deluded when it comes to much of what they moan about with referees.

Although, not so much today, as that ref just didn’t deal with their timewasting. But we get that level of referee because of everything I’ve said.

If it’s so easy to referee a game of football like fans and pundits all seem to think, why aren’t all these fans and pundits top referees? The talent pool is tiny because almost nobody wants to get into refereeing.

Referees receive a minimum salary of £70,000 per year, with the top referees earning at least £200,000. On top of this, they receive at least £1,500 per game in match fees. That's an additional £30,000 per year for refereeing just 20 games.

I think fans have every right to expect top quality referee performances.

I would happily run the gauntlet of fan abuse every day of the week, for a chance to earn that sort of money. Instead of framing this as what fans deserve, ask yourself whether or not referees deserve £100,000 per year for what they do.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

We will never get officials of the standard required in this sport while we have fans and players who treat them as they currently do. The standard and size of talent pool required will just never get involved in officiating. It’s as simple as that.

It’s exactly the same with teachers, same with the Police, same with politicians…

Treat people in tough jobs like shit and you will reduce the talent pool, recruit shit and get shit officiating/teaching/policing/politicking back.

The officials aren’t shit because they get a bit of stick. They’re shit because of the level of shit they get (and that’s anything up to death threats) plus the over-scrutinisation of every single one of their instant decisions (they make fewer mistakes than the players and managers do!) everything is looked at in the studio a dozen times and then all week on things like SSN, from ten angles, zoomed in, slowed down… the refs don’t get to see anything like that, they see it once from one angle at one speed and have to make a decision there and then… this stops people wanting to get involved in refereeing from the outset.

I think fans and pundits are completely deluded when it comes to much of what they moan about with referees.

Although, not so much today, as that ref just didn’t deal with their timewasting. But we get that level of referee because of everything I’ve said.

If it’s so easy to referee a game of football like fans and pundits all seem to think, why aren’t all these fans and pundits top referees? The talent pool is tiny because almost nobody wants to get into refereeing.

If people thought there was a chance of getting into the inner sanctums of PGMOL, they’d be straight in. Only those who suck up to the hierarchy make it, those who have any integrity are dumped into the lower leagues.

The reason they are so bad is because of the hierarchy, the best don’t actually make the cut because they don’t do as they’re told.

Personal opinion, of course.

 

[meltonblue]

Referees receive a minimum salary of £70,000 per year, with the top referees earning at least £200,000. On top of this, they receive at least £1,500 per game in match fees. That's an additional £30,000 per year for refereeing just 20 games.

I think fans have every right to expect top quality referee performances.

I would happily run the gauntlet of fan abuse every day of the week, for a chance to earn that sort of money. Instead of framing this as what fans deserve, ask yourself whether or not referees deserve £100,000 per year for what they do.

Part of the problem is fans of either side in a particularly game are the worst group to identify whether a refereeing performance is top quality or not, there’s plenty of comments in this thread alone that are proof of that. So many still struggle with the subjectivity of the laws.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Yeah, but which stand were you in? ;)

Pretty mixed that day in the North Stand, wild Wild West

 

[RobinHood]

Referees receive a minimum salary of £70,000 per year, with the top referees earning at least £200,000. On top of this, they receive at least £1,500 per game in match fees. That's an additional £30,000 per year for refereeing just 20 games.

I think fans have every right to expect top quality referee performances.

I would happily run the gauntlet of fan abuse every day of the week, for a chance to earn that sort of money. Instead of framing this as what fans deserve, ask yourself whether or not referees deserve £100,000 per year for what they do.

You've forgotten the column for VAR entitled, "Match Fixing Fee".

 

[BM96]

The fact he stopped the play before the corner when they were all over stones. Yet ignored all the ones when the ball was in play but the same thing happened. It just proves he was letting them foul at will.

 

[SebastianBlue]

well i went to the 5-1 in 89 if you want to compare notes dickhead

Well, I was 5 then…

But I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[mat]

David Coote is Notingham born rag loving ****.

 

[skillman]

The reputation of officials in this country is lower than ever I think.

They need to do something to recover that and I honestly think something like having a mic on them would help. It’d dispel any ‘cheat’ accusations and give fans (and players/clubs) context to their uselessness.

 

[urban genie]

David Coote is Notingham born rag loving ****.

another brent?