It seems staggering that he was allowed to referee without sanction for so long: if he was not fixing games, then he was a staggeringly bad referee who should have been disbarred on the grounds of awful decisions long ago.
You cannot be a top level referee without making a big error, as one or two games will catch you out in your career.
("A wee bit of respect would help us immensely," whined Dalglish, in the course of disrespectfully intimating that referees were without integrity).
It is bad enough when one referee punishes something in a certain way and the next lets the same offence go, though referees acting without the aid of replays in the middle of the pitch will inevitably see things slightly differently to one another and occasionally get things wrong.
"I don't know how they are going to manufacture this to get me because I've contested two refereeing decisions without abusive language, without any form of disrespect.
They played without referees and could certainly manage without them in a pinch, and the results would be surprising.
No referee is "without a bull's-eye on their back when Jackie is watching the game," Crean said.
At issue are comments Gonzalez made after his team's 64-61 loss to Rutgers, when he singled out the referee Wally Rutecki without specifically identifying him by name.
So I wonder if, within a few years, paying for open access will become the norm, rather in the way that refereeing manuscripts without payment is considered the normal thing to do.
