[St Charles Owl]

Taking your Point 3 Maddix, how many times do we bemoan the fact that other teams are more "professional" than us?? I can remember a few games this season where we have either said exactly that or at least intimated it. Maybe its time we got into the real world and became a bit more ruthless ourselves, just like the rest of the football world is!! Nuhiu is a classic case, he seems to be the recipient of a ton of "fouls" that refs are not giving him, such as shirt pulling and players all over him in tonights game, for me he needs to be much wiser than he is and start playing the same way as the defenders are. Sure it won't always work, and Maguire falling in the box in the past is a case in point, but we have to be a bit less naive as a team!!

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yep, all across the divisions as well. It's about time they were all employed full time by the FA and trained by the best ex-refs and were held accountable for their actions rather than this current situation where the referee is right and that's that. dont like it? don't play

Easiest way to make them accountable is to make them meet with the press to explain their decisions, how they saw an incident and why they did what they did.  I think most refs are honest and I think fans would be more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt over things but in the absence of any feedback we just see these decisions as bad refereeing.  Over here the refs/umpires are obligated to meet the press or at the very least issue statements as regards their decisions, so you get very few complaints about them from fans or clubs.

Spot on with the full time employment, but I thought that was the case with a lot of them anyway or is that just in the prem??  Refs should be professional across the 4 top leagues at the very least.  The practice of forcing them to retire at I believe 40 or 45 should also be stopped, if they are fit enough and can still do the job, then the experienced guys are the ones we are forcing to retire!