To explain themselves
What does this achieve?To explain themselves
Refs should be accountable. Their performances can cost a manager his job, lose a club millions if they are relegated etc. It’s common sense that they should have to face the cameras and explain their actions after a match. From an entertainment POV it would also add to the «spectacle».
I'm not sure how it's common sense but it would add to the spectacle, sure. I think it comes at the cost of worse decision making though.
Spot on, officials get to give horrendous performances and answer publicly to no one. Even privately does anyone think anyone is going to ask Moss to explain his decision about that penalty today?
It adds accountability for their actions. A bad ref game can have very serious consequences.
It would hold them to account. It’s a lot harder to dismiss it when you have a microphone in your face. Either that or a mic them up.
Not at all. We just want accountability. By the same token, refs can come out and be praised for their brilliant decisions. As I said before, I'd rather they wore a mic. Let us hear your live decision making instead of just leaving us guessing
I'm infinitely more convinced by the wisdom of mic wearing than of having them grilled on Sky Sports after games.
They don't want to be humiliated or caught lying on live TV, so they would give the foul in the game, so they wouldn't be lynched after the game. Refs needs to suck it up and take some responsibility, they are coasting as is.
I don’t think most feel that way. When you think a ref was shit or disgraceful, it would actually soften the bad feelings when he had the chance to explain what happened. That’s not punishment at all.
Completely agree it achieves nothing. I said in the Atkinson thread, people just want ref interviews as part of their revenge fantasy, they want refs to be grilled and humiliated as punishment for their shit decisions.
They should be held accountable by being dropped to a lower level for their poor performances and replaced with refs who aren't shit. Jon Moss doing an interview today where he says some generic bullshit like "didn't think there was quite enough contact" is going to do absolutely nothing to help anyone, it's not going to turn back time and give us the pen, and it's not going to stop him being a shit ref in future games. All it does is satisfy the fans' desire to see them publicly ridiculed as revenge for not giving their team a pen.
I hate this protect the refs at all costs bs. They are doing a highly compensated, public job that they've CHOSEN themselves, no one forces them to do anything, and they could all quit and go do something else if they wanted. If they don't possess the backbone to clarify their position on their refereeing, then they can feck right off in my opinion.
Do you honestly think Atkinson's smug face being on TV saying "I thought Ronaldo was looking for it" would soften the bad feelings towards him? Really? If a ref has made a bad decision there's nothing he can say to make it better, what they need a time machine so they can go back and get the decision correct.
Exactly, that's the problem. The lack of interviews is not the problem, or a solution to anything.
Well, maybe that bastard would not get away with it
I do feel a person like John Moss would learn more from public humiliation than a stern word in private. He seems an absolute tosser.
When you work in a high profile job you would have to do it. That’s for sure.
And what good would it do anyone if a ref came out and said he made an error? He's still cost a team points that can't be undone, and I don't see how it makes them less likely to make mistakes in the future.Well, maybe that bastard would not get away with it
But usually it helps to let people talk it out. At least if it feels honest.
I would respect a ref who said he got a decision wrong or a ref who said he had a bad game. It’s only human to make mistakes.
That's less than I would've guessed. I have thought for a while it's ridiculous that clubs import the world's top talent in players and staff but we're somehow happy to settle for a pool of almost exclusively British referees rather than offering attractive wages to the best officials from around the world.
I very much doubt if we publicly humiliated refs after every game it would somehow raise the standards of the decisions they were making. They're just useless.
Most of us respect that people do make mistakes. We all do them. If a ref continues to do mistakes and apologise again and again, maybe the FA would have to make changes.
My point is the refs will want to avoid the humiliation of explaining their shit, or unbelievable decisions, so they might actually give being decent refs a try? Instead of keep being as useful as a wet noodle. If they can't do that, then they are in the wrong line of business anyway and should move on, for the betterment of everyone involved in the sport. There's something seriously wrong with the refs in England, and the quicker we get to the bottom of it, the better.
