This is so dumb.
Mic up so we can hear how decisions are made you cowards
Oh is the confidence on referees low, Howard? Wonder why!
That feels like a Hail Mary move for Webb, and if really doesn’t sound like one which is going to work.
Inexperienced referees with a potential unconscious bias is going to make things worse, not better. Not to mention it undermines the confidence of the current referees even further.
Any young people aspiring to be referees are going to be demotivated as well.
Any other profession and Webb is out of a job now.
True. Imagine a referee giving a team a bad call because the fans called him a cunt 20 years ago. Humans can be very petty.
Player: Ref, handball!
Zlatan: Nope.
Player: How could you not see it?
Zlatan: I am the best. I do not miss anything. No handball.
Player: Is it cos your nose is in the way?
Zlatan: Red card. Off.
*Kicks player in the head*
The only way this’ll works is if the players never played in the league
Get them Swedish referees in I say. IKEA does amazing all over the world, it’s in their culture to do their best
How the fuck is this not possible conflict of interest lmao
Any more than a ref being a fan of any given club?
They obviously wouldn’t officiate games for the clubs they played for, or their rivals. Current referees are already subject to restrictions like this, everyone has a favourite club that they’re going to be biased towards.
mate, they let officiate referees who are on UAE payroll, they don’t give about conflict of interest
They are going to try everything but facing up to the reality that the organisation is too close to current referees to actually do the job of keeping them accountable.
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.
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:
- Aguero
- David Silva
- Vincent Kompany
- Joleon Lescott
- Pablo Zabaleta
- Micah Richards
- Yaya Toure
- Samir Nasri
- Carlos Tevez
- Aleksandr Kolarov
- Gael Clichy
- Josep Guardiola
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.