If only they had some tool at their disposal that could reflect their displeasure. Maybe some sort of visual warning that they have overstepped the bounds of propriety, and maybe there could be another one that could force the offender to leave the field of play. Alas such a method is too complex for my little brain to fully envision.
All it will do is prevent young referees wanting to take up the sport and will harm the sport in the long run
It’s been allowed to fester and needs changing.
Needs to be more like rugby where proper respect is shown, discussions can be had by the captains and the refs can explain their decision (including into a mic). Back chat hit with bookings/free kicks moving.
Hot take but referees need to do their part too
Their weaponised incompetence has created a feeling of unfairness and being cheated. When you see PGMOL issues apologies every other week for causing a team to lose crucial points, it’s hard not to feel that every decision against you could also be a stupid mistake.
At the end of the day I do think both issues have the same cause. The league is trying to protect the entertainment factor so they gimp VAR and stop referees from giving out too many yellows.
They just need to tell refs to book people for surrounding them. Everyone. If that means a game gets abandoned because too many players get sent off then so be it. It would only happen once.
Even when they do book people or send them off there’s always more who should have been. See the Mitrovic incident this season, he was rightly sent off, but there could have been at least one more red card and a couple more yellows for the reaction. Or Jordan Pickford sprinting 50 yards to scream at the ref the other week and wasn’t even booked.
It would take one weekend of chaos to sort out at the top level, this would then filter down to grass roots.
Only the captain can approach the referee/linesman/fourth official. They must to do in a calm, polite manner.
Anyone else approaching gets booked.
You’ll have multiple sending offs in the first weekend, but soon as teams realise it’s costing them games/ points, they’ll fall into line.
Even VAR does not help because it is used so poorly and sees so many bad calls made. Football is an emotionally charged sport and referees should not be the victims of abuse, however when a few bad matches is the difference between a manager having a job or not, you can understand why they feel so much pressure to get the right result by any means necessary.
Start with a six month ban from all football-related activity for any coaching staff or player who abuses a match official. Anybody other than the team captain who approaches a match official should receive a red card. The match officials need to be trained better, they make some shocking decisions. VAR needs to be abandoned as it’s a joke.
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If only they had some tool at their disposal that could reflect their displeasure. Maybe some sort of visual warning that they have overstepped the bounds of propriety, and maybe there could be another one that could force the offender to leave the field of play. Alas such a method is too complex for my little brain to fully envision.
All it will do is prevent young referees wanting to take up the sport and will harm the sport in the long run
It’s been allowed to fester and needs changing.
Needs to be more like rugby where proper respect is shown, discussions can be had by the captains and the refs can explain their decision (including into a mic). Back chat hit with bookings/free kicks moving.
Hot take but referees need to do their part too
Their weaponised incompetence has created a feeling of unfairness and being cheated. When you see PGMOL issues apologies every other week for causing a team to lose crucial points, it’s hard not to feel that every decision against you could also be a stupid mistake.
At the end of the day I do think both issues have the same cause. The league is trying to protect the entertainment factor so they gimp VAR and stop referees from giving out too many yellows.
They just need to tell refs to book people for surrounding them. Everyone. If that means a game gets abandoned because too many players get sent off then so be it. It would only happen once.
Even when they do book people or send them off there’s always more who should have been. See the Mitrovic incident this season, he was rightly sent off, but there could have been at least one more red card and a couple more yellows for the reaction. Or Jordan Pickford sprinting 50 yards to scream at the ref the other week and wasn’t even booked.
It would take one weekend of chaos to sort out at the top level, this would then filter down to grass roots.
Only the captain can approach the referee/linesman/fourth official. They must to do in a calm, polite manner.
Anyone else approaching gets booked.
You’ll have multiple sending offs in the first weekend, but soon as teams realise it’s costing them games/ points, they’ll fall into line.
Even VAR does not help because it is used so poorly and sees so many bad calls made. Football is an emotionally charged sport and referees should not be the victims of abuse, however when a few bad matches is the difference between a manager having a job or not, you can understand why they feel so much pressure to get the right result by any means necessary.
Start with a six month ban from all football-related activity for any coaching staff or player who abuses a match official. Anybody other than the team captain who approaches a match official should receive a red card. The match officials need to be trained better, they make some shocking decisions. VAR needs to be abandoned as it’s a joke.