The quality of officiating

Soldato
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Im not making this thread because of last night! Disclaimer out of the way.

It was something we discussed at Uni this morning (me, Chelsea fan *2, Villa fan and a Forest fan)

Why exactly is it that the more 'professional' they try to make the officials in this country, with bigger wages, better training and whatever, the quality seems to be going in the other direction ?

Going back to 2006, there was maybe one bad decision every weekend, sometimes two, and this had fans raging.
(by bad, i mean a real talking point)

Yet this year we are already seeing one bad decision in pretty much every single game, and multiple ones in a few games.

So why exactly is this happening? and why are the FA sticking their heads in the sand "tralala there is no problem with the quality of our officiating" instead of doing something about it like South America had to admit and do in the 90's -> 00's .
 
Back in 2006, most people weren't using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. It was much harder to analyse and discuss refereeing.

Thats only an issue if your influenced by outsiders surely?

It just seems like more and more when we sit down on a sunday evening or at Uni that we end up talking about a mountain of decisions the officials screwed up.

We watch a lot of football and only really go in-depth on neutral games so as not to get into any drunken incidents we might later regret =p so its not like personal reasons are clouding our judgement either.
 
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