Comparing them to the players is a joke. Top league refs are allowed weekly to be shite and nothing is done about it. Mike Dean has a history of ruining games because of his ego and he's still there.
No they really don't unless the standard is useless.
I'd love to see what a ref would have to do to get you to admit they were shite. over 15 dead at a guess
If a ref is consistently poor nothing seems to happen to them but if a player is consistently poor they will lose their place in the team.
So your post falls down at every single point.
A career of mistakes and an ego that means he has to make it the Mike Dean story every time.
It's about time awful refs were properly punished, he should not have been reffing an game after his performance in the united game against southampton.