Well we know if a ref did want to commit a few biased based decisions here and there, they could do so knowing that the media, pundits and even most fans will insist we cannot question any official’s integrity. And that the suggestion of corruption and/or bias is absurd, not having the possibility of being true.
Apparently it’s completely impossible for human beings involved in football officiating to ever display bias if they have a British passport.
Just as we have previously demonstrated sheer arrogance, almost borderline delusion, in the past to claim “English refs are the best in the world” and we now know that to be demonstrably untrue, we are again displaying the same arrogance in claiming “English refs are the most impartial in the world!”
Regardless of whether the god awful decision making is as a result of bias or incompetence, we arrive at the same destination. And it’s not acceptable.