I tend to think that criticism against the referees is usually just homer fans venting their anger (myself included at times), the decisions are subjective and marginal and it averages out over time but Darren English is just incompetent. I'm not even concerned about the travel thing, his performance is just objectively terrible. Notwithstanding this error a couple weeks ago he actually got called over to the monitor by VAR to override himself for making the incorrect call on a pen for Villa against Palace and he decided not to take VAR's advice despite the player clearly getting the ball and cost Palace a point.
Not everybody is cut out for officiating at the highest level and the key is that the league has a system where the officials are dealt with and demoted or benched if they don't perform. They've done it with Chris Kavanagh lately who is almost equally incompetent, he's basically been shut out from doing games and the same should happen with English.
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