#5. How can referees have less of an adverse impact on football games?
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We often go through entire football games without ever realising who the man in the middle was – that's the dream scenario, where it's the football that does all the talking, and being discussed about. Today, unfortunately, was not one of those days. Mark Clattenburg had a horror-show of a game, getting multiple decisions wrong – including what looked like a legitimate penalty claim in the first half (which got Mourinho sent off for his “unsportsmanlike behaviour” - aka incessant and vociferous complaining), another in the second half and a second yellow for Ander Herrera when the Spaniard had clearly slipped off the surface.
We may be sitting on a high horse here – talking as we do with the help of video technology – but why deny that horse to the man in the middle? Get in video replays and slo-mo shots for referees (like they've introduced the hawk-eye goalline technology). Help the men in the middle!
Yes, it will delay the game by a bit, but surely it is worth that rather than a lopsided, and unfair result at the end of the 90 minutes?
This game will be talked about for a while now, and none of it for the right reasons – at least when it comes to the refereeing.
With Mourinho having been sent off, it was upto his trusted aide Rui Faria to field questions on the game, and the referee.
All he had to say?
“I just want to say fantastic work from the ref"
The Kingdom of Sarcasm has a new monarch in town.
