The argument has been made for years that ex professionals should be referees as "they know the game".
But that's complete bullshit.
They know a specific position.
Imagine an ex defender becoming a referee, he would have a much high tolerance level for what is a foul than an ex striker would.
Impartiality is imperative to being a referee. Ex pros are not remotely impartial.
Oh great, fast-tracking stuff will definitely solve this issue, that's how you get quality employees, just blast through it all. Also, who the hell would trust that they wouldn't be unbiased??
Everyone shitting on the idea but i see it as a good start to fix VAR proplems , And simply put a rule of not refereeing club you have played in before and maybe their biggest rival too 😂
over/under half of those being Utd players?
Thus solving the problem, once and for all 😊
Another gig for big meeks?
Maybe they should look at other sports for refs.
Nigel Owens and Rugby would be a perfect example.
Jeremy Doku had Trent Alexander-Arnold on toast for most of the game, how COULD Gary Neville make him man of the match
What a weird thing to throw in this article.
Someone didn't watch the match.
Can’t wait to watch Patrice evra referee a game
Honest to god I find the idea "make ex players refs" to be the most frustrating.
Currently refs get called biased if they lived in the same region as a club. Footballers who've moved into media roles over the years are always showing their biases. They've had decades of tribalism drummed into them, even if they're fine moving clubs they still won't want to tarnish their legacy by giving any decisions that help their rivals.
Even if they do play it straight no fan is going to believe them as fans
what about the refs who are wading through the trenches who come pre experienced and would chomp at the bits for a promotion?
They've done this a bit in rugby and they tend to be worst refs. Not saying PGMOL have done a good job with a lot of their decisions but the job is so hard to do without mistakes whilst the criticism is so high that even if the quality of onfield reffing improved I don't think people would have confidence.
It's why there should be a focus on improving VAR to make it a streamlined and consistent process which PGMOL and everyone else has made a meal of
Jobs for the boys
Imagine ronaldo as a ref 😂
PGMOL out of VAR is what needs to happen. All we need is automated offside and a competent VAR to tell the actual official to head to the screen for another look on questionable calls.
Rooney please!
Which United and City players have retired recently?
Should have been done Donkeys years ago
Ole schemin' PGMOL at it again!
The 12 names have been revealed:
Honestly, Howard Webb is a moron. He’s more interested in being liked than doing a good job.
Last year he decided that VAR decision were going to be faster so we got faster decisions but more wrong decisions as well.
He started this year by making a big deal out of apologising to Wolves for the Onana non-penalty. This was dumb because while it was a bad decision it make it a much bigger deal and I think the increase of managers bitching about VAR is because of it.
Now he’s fast tracking ex-pros because ex-pros have also assumed they would be better referees despite their being zero evidence to back this up.
He’s a disaster.
Fuck Tum Balogun and the mail.
Zlatan can only be the non biased candidate from players haha
Nothing inspires confidence like fast tracking
This is so dumb.