Soldato
I'm struggling with the underlying point of your post. All I'm getting is that you're concerned that officials not good enough to manage in the PL might struggle for work if they can't speak Danish? They have no god given right to have positions officiating in major European leagues. They need to earn their spot and if they're not good enough to work here and don't have the language skills to work abroad then tough **** - that applies to everybody in every walk of life unfortunately. They can always officiate in the Championship and lower leagues if that's where their level dictates they should be.
The standard of officials in the PL is at the lowest point I can remember in my lifetime. Even compared to last season it seems significantly worse. I'm not aware of there being any rules preventing foreign officials from working in other European Leagues (in fact I'm aware of it happening for key games in some European leagues) but as yet the PL haven't decided to appoint a foreign ref. There's a very valid argument for the PL to flex it's muscles and appoint the best officials from around Europe.
Do you think fans in every country they aren't having the exact same conversation every weekend? Like I said there is nothing special about British or European refs. The only possible thing that might be removed by employing foreign refs is them not supporting a PL club but there is a very good chance many might support one of the big clubs in the PL, so what has been solved?
I'm merely pointing out that it solves no problem but creates more problems with the language barrier. If we take the top refs from European countries they will need to be replaced with UK refs and so you'll end up with inferior refs because they speak the language.
Yes some of the officiating has been bad, though its bad every season. The offside yesterday was on another level but it was human error and errors in their procedures. Getting foreign refs in isn't going to solve anything, its just a kneejerk idea.
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