André Dominguez
Full Member
Same problems here in PT, and all arround th wolrd it seems. I actually know some professional refs, and to be promoted you have to kiss a lot of asses and play along with some decisions. Top clubs have a lot of weight in which refs are getting promoted/demoted and even picked for professional division games.As a qualified referee myself albeit only for a year (some years ago and registration long expired now) I can tell you it is all a big club where they are all in it together and everyone sticks up for one another.
The culture will not change anytime soon. I’d be amazed if there were any bent refs at the top level but incompetence will get protected and let’s be honest how many of us have had to make a split second decision with 40,000 mouth breathing scousers trying to pronounce a consonant without spitting.
Not good enough yes, but bent no.
Var is an extension of “let’s look after our own”.
I can’t imagine the pressure of the var official to agree with the on field ref even if said ref is nausing it up completely.
The whole system is broken.
This means refs cannot antagonize all top clubs, they have to "please" at least one of them so they can get credit under the "system".