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Originally Posted by Addick
There is undoubtedly a significant lack of respect towards officials in this country. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that there is also an issue with the quality and, likely, integrity of officiating. We can't allow the former to be used as a screen for the latter.
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Am curious - feel free to ignore if you'd rather not get into it - are you Charlton? I agree that the officiating is not good this season (and the VAR is a whole other issue I won't touch here), but I think that will always be the case in every sport that imperfect decisions will be made. The NHL is worse as far as the consistent application of the penalty rules, 2 minute minors are dramatically different from game to game.
If anything in the UK it is going to worse before it gets better because of the histrionics going on right now.
What high achieving kid with options in their right mind wants to be an official watching these people get crapped on, threatened with their families in airports, etc? The pool of capable people willing to do it is only going to go down in the next few years.
It's a part of sport, and it's not that you as a fan don't have a right to call it out and discuss it when a decision is wrong, that's part of the opera of sport for fans to do that and fun for some, but different when it's someone in the league, and the same two guys who are public figures every week they lose who are spewing bile and blaming the refs, it just gets to be too much, especially when their clubs have huge natural advantages over their competitors to begin with.