If you keep talking about conspiracies and unconscious bias, then we will be left with no referees and just robots. twoht has seen the future and it's not good.
Referees have been the butt of football’s ire for as long as the game has been played, but are standards so bad and if so what will it take to improve them?It is an oft-told story that throughout the entirety of his career, the legendary BBC television commentator Barry Davies would refuse to answer any questions about which team he supported as a child, lest divulging that information colour anyone’s opinion of his neutrality. Only after he retired did he publicly confirm any of these details.
But what happens to that idea that the local press should ‘support’ their local football club in an age when the game is growing increasingly partisan? To what extent should they reflect the views of increasingly angry fans? Might they even start challenging them? Over the course of this season, there has been a growing phenomenon in some parts of the regional press to be consistently putting refereeing in the spotlight, in what may be considered to be somewhat partial terms.
We see something similar in some sections of the national media, in which every mistake, every bad decision and every moment of madness has to be held under a microscope and pored over until everyone has reached the same conclusion that they held in the first place. Well okay, hold up there a second, fellas.
VAR was the next logical step in that process. If technology can be adapted still further for football and if nothing quells the growing discontent over refereeing standards, it’s not difficult to imagine a point at which it could be decided to dispense with referees and their assistants altogether. Then at least we may get the consistency that seems to be so desired.
If the current generation of referees are ‘incompetent’, then who replaces them? Do we buy in from abroad? Well, it doesn’t seem particularly ethical to start denying other leagues their best officials when this country should really be bringing through its own. If there are leagues in which there aren’t disputes over refereeing decisions and about the implementation of VAR, then perhaps some sort of fact-finding mission should be arranged to find out what they’re doing so right.
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