I respect some comments are argue and debate accordingly, however some are ridiculous like sacking refs after a few bad ratings!
I grew up and played most of my football in the 70's and early 80's.
See what I can say.
I agree referees should be yeah of course, I get it can be difficult but they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with mistakes constantly.
We all know the answer to that, but it will never happen.
I think it’s “ridiculous” is when you look at swearing at the ref - or a borderline yellow/red foul when someone can be injured and out for month - or potentially career ending. It’s hardly the same offence.
Never mind referees making honest mistakes, will Jarred Gillet give every player that swears at him a yellow card.
That has nothing to do with the Neil decision which was straight up bias
So what reason would the ref have to be biased?
You make a good point, in just about every game you watch players gesticulate, show disapproval of a decision. Telling the ref he has missed a foul isn't dissent. If he is in the refs ear every few minutes, then that would be a different scenario, but then I would expect any half decent ref to warn such a player before issuing an official caution. As I said earlier this comedian was having a nightmare of a game, and just lost it.
The word common sense you use I agree but referees should also use common sense.
Give ower man.
The foul is a 36:54 and the ball is ready to be taken at 37:04 but Greenwood pisses about for 9 secs until 37:13 even looking to kick it but moving slighlty, which that clip conveniently cuts off. Greenwood dummies a kick and eventually kicks the ball at 37:22. Though she seems to speed up once the ref blows the 2nd time as I doubt she'd have taken it then either. Given it's BBC Sport tweeting it, they've done it in the hope of causing more discussion when in fact it's a correctly given 2nd yellow card as Greenwood was stupidly taking the piss given she was already on a yellow.
The people who make decisions on refs have their every performance of every game so are in a far more informed position to decide on them than you or I don’t you think?
Consistency between refs on different matches, fair enough. But this was inconsistency by one ref in one match, and that's inexcusable. Even worse, it seemed not to be even-handedConsistently is not possible when you dealing with different instances and people.
Consistently has never happened and never will it’s down to interpretation and is subjective always has been.
That’s one of the key problems with stupid handball situation and other stuff striving for the impossible.
Refs should just be allowed to ref the game how they see fit and mistakes they inevitably make treated the same way as the inevitable mistakes made by players.
Used to be that way up to a point, and there was nothing wrong with the game, until everyone concerned, pundits, fans, managers and the media did not accept them inevitable mistakes.
Now we have incredible ridiculous over the scrutiny where people look at ref games against a certain team in the past and put 2 and 2 together and make 7 that the ref has something against them which is complete nonsense, even occasions looking where a ref lives and saying he lives to close to one team so must be biased
What everybody needs to do from all angles imo ( but will not happen) is stop trying to make instances and fouls the same and compare, all fouls are different and seen differently by different people.
And stop asking for consistently because it’s f***ing impossible.
Refs should rightly get criticism when they have the luxury of VAR and still get it wrong.
However when they have one look, one angle and split seconds to make a decision in such a fast paced game, 99% of times their mistakes should be accepted and understood like they once were, sadly they not and why we have some of the ridiculous situations we have now on occasions.
