I could add to this debate and state the absolute obvious, logical and common sense view.
Which is if a ref starts out from the bottom of his profession and in a diffrent country and moves all his way up to the top of his profession, therefore ending up in the best league in the world.
He must have been a good ref in a reasonably lot of games?
That’s common sense and logical.
but of course that often in short supply on here when mistakes are remembered for years and good games forgotten in seconds.
the common sense view is that it matters not one iota his history, where he came from, how good or bad in all of his previous games. all of that is just waffle and deflection.
it's his performance on saturday that's at question, that's all that matters.