I’m sick of refs making blown calls that are just inexcusable to occur at this level of play. If you watched the U.S. - Slovenia game today it was a disgraceful call by the Ref Koman Couilibaly of Mali that cost the Americans the win. Earlier in the Germany v Serbia game Spanish referee, Alberto Undiano, ejected German’s best striker with 10 minutes to go in the first half on a slight foul, a horrid call! Yesterday we saw in the Greece - Nigeria game Nigeria midfielder Sani Kaita given a red card after Vassilis Torosidis from Greece flop to the ground from contact that never happened. That brings me to my second complaint, start carding these damn players who flop to the ground in dramatic fashion with looks of torturous pain in their faces in the hopes of getting a card pulled or foul called on their opponent. After getting the call they typically hop up and are fine, these asshats belong on a Broadway stage not on a soccer field. These flopper’s are an embarrassment to the game as much as the horrid refs we’ve been seeing in this World Cup, Fifa should be ashamed of the shenanigans going on in this World Cup.
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Pierluigi Collina should have a refs academy. He is by far the fairest ref I have ever seen.
I've been watching highlights of all matches with my kids at school, and I do stop and pause the video when there is a red or yellow card to discuss with my pupils why, how and if the cards are justified. It's actually been quite an interesting experience so far. Has helped maintain behaviour management.
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FIFA should have a group of refs upstairs in a booth who's only job is to look at video replay when a player receives a red card. And there is no reason for the game to be stopped while this happens. The video replay refs can make a decision if the red card was deserved or not within 3 minutes of it being handed out while the game goes on. If they determine it was not then it should be removed and the player placed back into the game immediately. This solution allows the game to go on with no additional stoppage and legitimizes the game further.
Individual refs have been given to much power to control the outcome of the game with only 1 bad call. FIFA claims they want to do everything to prevent match fixing but this closed and opaque referee model invites, or rather begs, for corruption to be introduced into the game. A clear and transparent referee model with a safety net like the replay system I described above brings legitimacy and combats potential game fixing effectively and does so without any additional stoppage to the game.
This excuse against any kind of replay system by some has been that 'human mistakes' are part of the game. This is a ridiculous cop-out by those who refuse to accept that the game can evolve. Replay does not change the foundation or fundamentals of the game but in fact strengthens and supports them. In addition why aren't refs required to tell the public (or players) about the calls they make? Ref's could easily have a mic placed on them which they can explain the calls as they happen in real time without effecting the flow of the game. To accept a system that has fundamental flaws when a fix is available is stubborn and simply a failure by those in charge of the league.
This excuse against any kind of replay system by some has been that 'human mistakes' are part of the game. This is a ridiculous cop-out by those who refuse to accept that the game can evolve. Replay does not change the foundation or fundamentals of the game but in fact strengthens and supports them. In addition why aren't refs required to tell the public (or players) about the calls they make? Ref's could easily have a mic placed on them which they can explain the calls as they happen in real time without effecting the flow of the game. To accept a system that has fundamental flaws when a fix is available is stubborn and simply a failure by those in charge of the league.
True a quick replay will not interfere with the flow of the game, especially as one wrong decision can ruin the game for a particular team. All this rubbish about game slowing down is just that. Don't they stop the game when someone is injured when cards are shown and bookings take place.
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The game is already slow. Replays not going to hurt anybody
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The problem is that the best Referees are South American and European. Asian and African Referees suck.
But with FIFA they mandate that all referees should be allowed from all conferences.
Like today's game between switzerland and chile was a disaster because of that Saudi Referee
So I hear yet another one of the US goals was disallowed. :hehe:
Dempsey put the ball in the net in the 21st minute off the rebound of Herculez Gomez’s shot. But the goal was called offside, just as Maurice Edu’s late goal was disallowed against Slovenia last week, a score that would have given the Americans a victory. Replays appeared to show Dempsey was onside.
Also hats of to that dude in the Ivory Coast team for faking an elbow in the face by Kaka! haha
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did you know there have been quite a few technical errors as well by refs.
For example, the goal by Switzerland against Spain was an off-side goal. So too one of the goals of Argentina if I remember correctly.
hahaha… I saw that too, absolutely pathetic, such dramabaazi by the player
love Kaka’s smirks…