That was a pretty shocking refereeing performance.
 

One of the worst in my memory. Guy should have his wages docked.

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Are we supposed to know what you are talking about?

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Oh come on, you know that one game where that one ref missed that call? Don't act like you didn't see that game

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Probably this

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Or this

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From what I've seen, scooer officiation is absoutly horrible. Much worse than anything I've seen here in America (not counting basketball, because basketball is stupid).

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The nature of soccer makes it very difficult to officiate. Those guys have to be in great shape to do their jobs. I agree there are more bad calls than just about any other sport, but most of it is because they don't get a very good view of the action like we do.
I think plate umpires in baseball are the worst, and I don't think they should even exist in today's day and age. Everybody complained about that questec or whatever it was, simply because it called the strike zone according to the rules instead of sucking or altering it based on personal preference. I think that's pretty funny.

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Are you talking about the Canterbury vs Auckland Ranfurly shield game???

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The nature of soccer makes it very difficult to officiate. Those guys have to be in great shape to do their jobs. I agree there are more bad calls than just about any other sport, but most of it is because they don't get a very good view of the action like we do.
I think plate umpires in baseball are the worst, and I don't think they should even exist in today's day and age. Everybody complained about that questec or whatever it was, simply because it called the strike zone according to the rules instead of sucking or altering it based on personal preference. I think that's pretty funny.

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Soccer officiating could be drastically improved but having three of four referees, so that it would be more likely that someone would get a good view of the action.

I agree that balls and strikes should be called electronically.

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