KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum why is the standard of officials so bad??

Basically because no one is monitoring them, the referees i mean. I hear VDV (spurs) should have been given 2nd yellow for celebrating with the fans but did he get his marching order?

The questions remains. There is no consistency.

IMHO.

Give them a point system, good solid performances earns you 2 points, while a bad performance drops you a point. A really horrible performance like Atkinson on Saturday should get deducted 2 points. Top 5 Refs in the poll get a 50% rise in salary. Surely that would keep them on their toes?

it all depwnds on what makes a bad performance,apart from the obvious bad decision on saturday did atkinson really have a bad game?the only mistake other than the sending off that i can remember is when lucas was taken out and no action was taken.

he was giving us all the 50/50s, freekicks after suarez diving you name it. The penalty was spot on but apart than that he pretty much handed us the game.

I love the fact that LFC won the game. However the ref ruined what would have been a great game of football. Im not sure we get 3 points out of it without that horrid call. Unless a ref is 100% sure it is an obvious red then the card should be yellow.

i think the refs have the hardest job in football and people should get off their backs or give them new tech to help them do their job better

not defending mr atkinson and his decision making , but after looking at the rodwell challenge a number of times he did lunge into the tackle studs up and off the ground and i can see why he sent him off now .

I don't think Rodwell deserved a red card. I think it was yellow at worst. The one who did get away with a shocker was Hibbert on Adam, studs up, took his foot! Tim cahill was a yellow with his studs up high challenge on Adam, and Fellaini should have got a yellow with his lunge on Lucas.
The game woulod have been totally different had it not been a straight red but I still think we deserved the points eventhough Everton had the better of us in the first 15 mins.

The ref certainly has a hard job no doubt about that. Covering a whole field with 22 players on it cant be easy. However they should use common sense it cases of giving penaties and red cards. You have to be 100% certain imo. Refs should be arbitrating games not deciding them. Maybe replay shopuld be involved in red cards and penalties, Im not sure. I just hate when a ref for all intents and purposes decides the outcome of games like what happened in the Derby or the world cup final.

The refs do make too many horrible calls.

To me it's obvious they need help from cameras to be able to make the games fair!