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foreign refs/todays article in i paper
DIR By: cwh
Date: April 14, 2023, 11:36 am
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HTML https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/foreign-refugees-premier-league-bias-2274422
Has anyone seen this article in todays I Paper - I dont know if
this link will work but basically about importing foreign
referees to help the current? crisis in refereeing here in Uk
I for one hopes this will never happen - far too much foreign
influence already with owners.managers (many of whom are
difficult to understand in interviews) and players
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Re: foreign refs/todays article in i paper
DIR By: Leggy
Date: April 14, 2023, 12:13 pm
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HTML https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/foreign-refugees-premier-league-bias-2274422
> Has anyone seen this article in todays I Paper - I dont know
if this link will work but basically about importing foreign
> referees to help the current? crisis in refereeing here in Uk
> I for one hopes this will never happen - far too much foreign
influence already with owners.managers (many of whom are
difficult to understand in interviews) and players
>
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His point is well made, it is not a silver bullet. Would
Premier League fans and teams want La Liga officials given the
high level of red cards in Spain. The moans / complaints /
arguments would not go away, they would just have different
targets.
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Re: foreign refs/todays article in i paper
DIR By: bmb
Date: April 14, 2023, 1:03 pm
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Hardly the brainchild of Steve Bennett to use foreign refs on
key games as it's been going on for years in other Federations -
including Greece! In fact the big nation league refs are the
only ones who don't seem to go and do games abroad on a regular
basis. The year before Viktor Kassai retired he only did one
game less in Saudi Arabia as referee, as he did in Hungary (20+
in each), he also did an equal amount of games there as VAR - it
was before VAR was introduced in Hungary. Our refs are
frequently in Greece, Egypt and Saudi Arabia along with Polish,
Slovak & Romanian refs - it's common place. I think it can work
well in nations where allegations of corruption are rife as it
can take that sting away but when you have clubs allowed to get
away with dictating which referees they will and won't accept
(I'm looking at the big 4 in Greece there...) including whether
or not they will accept specific foreign refs for the game it
becomes a complete farce.
The PL might think it's the be all and end all but it isn't, as
pointed out in the article the wages are poor compared to other
big leagues, in fact they're not a lot better than smaller
leagues like in Hungary especially when you work out the
difference in the cost of living between the countries. Referee
abuse is higher because it is less tolerated elsewhere - might
clean up the PL a bit to have players sent off for abuse, booked
for gamesmanship & dissent etc. They might actually appreciate
the referees we do have! Why on earth would foreign referees
want to come here permanently when they have better in their own
countries?
What needs to change is the process by which the development of
referees is funded. What needs to change, far beyond anything
else, is the climate around referees at every level of the game
and the abuse crisis that has escalated within the profession.
This is the real crux of the matter.
That said I would be very happy if they could import István
Kovács, Danny Makkelie, Enea Jorgji and Filip Glova to the
PL.... bmb towers would need to move to a larger premises
though!
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