[St Charles Owl]

I have no problem removing match assessors, at the end of the day what they see and report on is just their opinion same as the refs is. Every PL and most Championship games are televised now, there is plenty of opportunity to review the performance of the ref, and from multiple angles. We need to remove the expectation that refs should be perfect, they never will be, in any sport, but as you say they have to be accountable and like the players be always working on their skills through video review and training. I would prefer to see a ref attached to a club all season from the point of view of training, working with players both on the training pitch and in the video room, have the ref both improve his own game but also educate the players with regards to decisions and why they are made in the matches. Of course that ref would not be able to ref any game involving that team.

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And if this Ref had already booked FF 3 times for what he believed was simulation, then he applied that cognitive bias to this situation, predetermining FF's guilt.
Again, this is what I'm getting at...

There is no way that this cognitive bias can ever be removed though, its human nature, we store memories in our brains that shape our thoughts all the time.  Its a bit like police profiling, it generally works but will lead to the usual suspects being exactly that - suspects!!  On the other hand, MS knew this ref had booked FF 3 times, hopefully so did the club and therefore there should have been some effort in making sure FF was first aware of this and that he kept it in mind during the game.  If the  club did do this then FF needs to take some blame for not heeding the advice, if the club didn't make him aware then blame lies with them.