Referees should have to come out and explain their decisions. Even if it is not live TV and through him watching a replay it would be a start. If he admits to a mistake then fair enough let them explain their thought process. I'm also up for the ref earset that's used in rugby. If it means carding players for foul language all the better. It would soon stop.
I agree with all of this. Referees are humans and they’ll make mistakes. But to be fair to them, they do get the majority right. If I had a £ for every time I have disputed numerous decisions when at the match only to see in the concourse the ref was right. The problem is, we remember the ones they get wrong, usually because they are the big ones that matter.
I think players, fans and managers would all be more willing to accept inconsistencies and wrong decisions if they were honestly explained. An honest appraisal of the referee’s own performance can also assist in their own personal development and in the improvement of existing and would be referee’s.
If anything, an post-match interview would in the very least make the ref’s personable. At the moment they are all seen as “egotistical bullied as a child little hitlers”.
I don’t see how anything negative could come from a referee being interviewed.
Maybe it could start with the referee’s report being made public.
Zlatan is on £300,000 and has missed 10 sitters, if he’s silent on the matter people get on his case and want him dropped. If he came out and said “hey, I have missed 10 chances I should have buried, I’ll work hard to make sure the next hits the back of the net” then people cut him some slack. Same goes for referee’s I think.