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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
what happens if a ref has a soft touch for a club and is leniant to them in the game, who questions him, who audits him, what punishment should he get for bad decisions that can cost clubs thousands or millions.
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Referee's decisions should, of course, be subject to "peer review" ie if other refs or the FA think someone's biased towards a particular club (which I think is usually simply a case of bad luck or sour grapes) or is making a lot of bad decisions, they should be told to sort their act out or stop refereeing, but that's not the same as querying every decision made on the *at the time* that it is made.
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Originally Posted by Russ D
Essien should have gone off last night for his tackle on Hamann - the referee only gave him a yellow card but said when he looked at the tackle again on tv after the game, he wanted to up it to a red card.
The use of improved technology would ensure players like Essien spend as little time on the pitch as possible.
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I have no idea about the particular situation you describe, but, in general, if replays are showing that a player is persistantly engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct then they should be called before a Disciplinary Committee and be required to explain their actions and then fined, suspended, banned as appropriate to their offence.
However this is something that needs to be done *outside* the 90 minutes of the game, not *during* it.