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Why aren’t they journalists? There are already plenty of A.I. alternatives to legacy media and most of them are shit.

Haji Wright was on the books at LA Galaxy, but don't think he ever played in MLS.

Celery, celery

I'm not following you, I'm just taking issue with your posts on every thread!

If you can prove that it's a big factor in referees underperforming then I'm all for action to stamp it out - what's your evidence though? The status quo seems pretty good to me....if you want to tinker further with how to officiate the world's most popular game then be my guest, VAR is working...

I think referees should be able to speak to the press if they want to, and I'm all for more transparency with refs explaining how/why they made certain decisions. But if the intention is explicitly to "embarass them" then obviously it's not going to help anyone. I respect anyone who faces the...

So none of these referees have ever shown unconscious bias during a game? If the FA want to stop certain referees from refereeing certain games to protect them from the howls of complaint from hyper-partisan fans then that's fine. But I don't think it's doing anything to improve the actual...

He's on a respectable wage, training at a club with better players and better facilities than he will ever play at again. His stock isn't going down from sitting on the bench either and most fans like him - I'm not surprised he's seeing out his contract.

I don't know (or particularly care) if PL clubs feel that strongly about it, but I personally think the League Cup and EFL Trophy should just be merged and you can leave the PL clubs out of it altogether. Two-leg semi-finals are madness.

Sub-conscious bias obviously exists, but I'm not aware of any meaningful way we can control for it, and filtering referees according to where they live certainly doesn't. It makes no more sense to assume a referee from Yorkshire will perform badly in Saturday's game than it does to assume that...

Who are they?

"To be fair" there's no proof that Coote was doing anything other than mouthing off in private about a known douchebag who had given him shit over a contentious decision.

You tell me, was he? He wasn't removed from his job for anything he did during a game.

How many proven cases have there been in this country in the last 25 years?

Yes - even David Coote, the most famous of all compromised refs in the history of shit refs, didn't make decisions based on which local team he supported.

I don't think it's necessarily that straightforward, but more than anything I think people just need to accept that when referees are crap it's almost always for non-nefarious reasons.

Tavares really does excel in that super-sub role

I have no idea if the FA has that many refs floating around that they're able to do this. But I don't imagine that a 'top' ref is much more likely to deliberately perform badly to help out a local team than a player is.

Makes it more likely that he’s a fan of one of Wednesday’s local rivals tbf