A Plan to Fix Refereeing

Make it worth a lot of money to ex pro’s. There’s a massive lot of cash from sky to fund this

Get a group of footballers around the age of 30 to 35, pay him / her 250k a year and make it a full time job. Recruit every year into the programme

House this refereeing school at St George’s Park and train them properly every day for 5 years or so, class room work, training games, debriefs, analysis, lower league games the whole shebang etc

Bin the ones not making the grade, after a period you have a pool of refs who know the game, know how to control it and a continual improvement as the cycle repeats

 

Great idea in theory one major flaw though in that the FA, PL & EFL all currently contribute to salaries meaning all the clubs would have to give up more of their TV monies.

 

There's only one plan to fix refereeing that's ever been effective

 

Instead of all that just put ex pros on the var panel.

 

When all said and done many of the decisions are subjective and are a personal opinion so just go back to one man making the decision and sacking them if they are constantly poor instead of backing them.Some refs are good and some are bad.And as for wrong decisions costing clubs millions and peoples futures then its just cost us 7 million with VAR.

 

Perhaps something like VAR and using it to check any major game changing decisions but oh wait.

 

When i saw the words "referees" and "fix" i thought you were still on abart Monday.

 

I think more ex pros is a great idea. Not sure the money is there for the figures quoted by the OP. The idea is a good one, but I'm not sure how many ex pro's would take it up. They would know too many current players too, which could cause a conflict of interests. I agree something needs to be done though with refereeing standards.

 

Matron, he's talking sense again, get the straight jacket out....

 

Not sure is it just the prem refs that are full time surly there's plenty of lower league and injury hit ex pros that could be interested.

 

The problem with football refereeing is the rules of football are not enforced. It's now common for something to be a foul in one area of the pitch but not another.
Players routinely argue and swear at officials and go unpunished.
If refs want respect they need to command it.
As I have also said previously another problem is 99.9% of professional footballers are cheats who are trying to con the ref. All the ex pros support this behaviour and make comments like he's used his experience, given the ref a decision to make, he's every right to go down there....ect.
Then you throw in the shambles that is VAR and honestly it's all enough to put you off the game completely.

 

We could take on the Rugby Union model, that works. In Rugby Union everyone accepts the referee's decision. Players, coaches, fans, commentators, pundits, journalists, everyone. The referee is not questioned, they're not held accountable, their decisions are simply accepted. And it works brilliantly.

Everyone in football appears to want referees to be more accountable. They want to scrutinise every single decision in the minutiae (Actually, that's not true, they want to completely gloss over every decision that benefits their team and only judge a referee on the decisions on which they believe they have been badly done to. For example, Isted punched a Wednesday player in the head in the first half and that's not been mentioned once on here. As much as one of our players got kicked in the opposition penalty area, one of theirs got punched.) And then they want to, I'm not sure, burn them at the stake I think. Whatever it is, it's moving in the exact opposite direction of the system that works, from a position that is already light years on the wrong side of it.

 

This incident where he clearly punched the ball but caught Patterson with the follow through?
These situations happen in games up and down the country week in week out. Two players attacking the ball in the air, physics says they’ll be contact due to momentum. Isted would need to be Harry Potter not to make contact! This would never be a penalty In a million years. Fans who think this is a penalty or even a foul have never played football at any level.


The Kitching incident should 100% be a penalty, the defending player doesn’t get to the ball and kicks an attacker with such force his foot is twisted round.

I’ve seen some Wendy’s say that Smith was roughed up by Andersen, Kitching and Thomas but we’d suggest it’s the other way round, the elbow on Andersen as prime example. My opinion is Smith and whichever defender was involved were both grabbing, how can a referee give a foul when both combatants are shirt pulling?

 

If anyone genuinely thinks that Isted one is a penalty, they're delusional![/QUOTE]

 

Which hand does he punch the ball with and which hand connects with the player?

 

I’ve not watched it back but live I thought Patterson was caught by Isted’s shoulder/arm after he’d punched the ball. The photo sort of backs this up.