[St Charles Owl]

The standard of refs has gone down since Mike Riley took over as the head of refs. I have always been more inclined to give the ref the benefit of the doubt when it comes to most things but the game has bypassed them in terms of speed and in terms of scrutiny with all the cameras there. Ref on the whole do a great job but they are constantly undermined by the hours of video playback of incidents, a technology that they do not get to use or benefit from!! Football has to embrace the technology available to it and the refs need as much real time information and help that they can get with the modern game as it is today. We also need to keep the best refs in the game after they retire from actual reffing, the likes of Keith Hackett need to be used to help the new refs, and apparently that has stopped as well.