• HotPotatoWithCheese@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    By ex-players he’s clearly talking about the likes of Michael Owen and other sycophantic pundits at Sky who think Webb is the greatest thing to happen to football since Pelè.

  • sleepy_aliyah42@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    You have to take a test for a referee certificate, right? Refs theoretical knowledge is guaranteed, but ability to deal with emergencies is not so good. Maybe that’s why they did a lot mistakes.

  • MasterReindeer@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    How about you hire smart people who have no skin in the game? Lawyer types who know the laws and know how to apply them.

  • justenough91@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Gary Neville refereeing Man Utd Liverpool with Carragher and Micah Richards as his assistants. A stupendous idea.

  • BuffaloPancakes11@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Shocking idea, the bias is crazy with ex-professionals and they expose their terrible opinions every week on national TV

  • johnlooksscared@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    We all know that VAR is fallible. So when half a dozen “suspect” VAR decisions cost some poor manager his job will Howard and his chums stump up the cash to feed his family? The other point to consider is the cost…in the good old days we paid for ref and 2 linesmen. Then we had those 3 plus a guy to hold up signs…now we have those 4 plus an unknown number of other officials getting paid for ruining the game.