In theory, soccer is a simple game. Positively in practice, it's more complicated than one might think. There are only 17 rules in soccer, but the tournament code is 100 pages long. Today
England Premier Soccer League
A referee makes about 300 decisions per game (a "decision" is the point at which the referee can blow the whistle to stop play, not the number of times the whistle is actually blown). Many of these decisions don't result in the referee blowing the whistle, some are based on facts, such as which team's player threw the ball back into play when it went out of bounds, but many are about collisions between players, and a small percentage of these decisions affect the outcome of the game. Soccer is a low scoring game, which means that a referee's level of enforcement plays a key role in the outcome of a game, and a single blow can affect the score of the entire game.
In 2001, England became the first country in the world to require that all referees enforcing in the top flight be full-time staff. Prior to this, many referees found free time in between their regular jobs as teachers, farmers, cab drivers, or newspaper dispatchers.Mike Dean at 560
England Premier Soccer League
Prior to enforcing the law, he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. But as the pace of soccer events gets faster and faster, the physical demands on the license get higher and higher; and as the
England Premier Soccer League
Turning into chickens that can lay golden eggs and be profitable in broadcasting rights, the professionalization of the passes also seems to be the trend. Under the new system, the executives at management company PGMOL select 24 passes that they believe to be top class and become selects. They are paid a base salary of £35,000 a year, plus tournament appearance fees. "You'll see a couple of passes who normally eat McDonald's suddenly being able to afford to go to a Michelin-level restaurant." Keith Kackett, PGMOL's first Program Development Manager, said.
The ball cards now follow a training program to build fitness, with fitness classes twice a week. On the same day they sit down to analyze crash footage, with technical assistance from sports scientists, psychologists and nutritionists. "We want to show that these witnesses are elite athletes," Hackett said. Hackett said. Witness Andre Marriner told me that in the past, witnesses were often "skinny, dumb-looking middle-aged guys" who smoked and drank a lot; now they're the freshest athletes around. Between the 2003/4 and 2009/10 seasons, Tom Webb, the founder of the Witness and Staff Research Network, published an article stating that the number of times a witness needed to run a sprint jumped from 19 to 41 per game, and that the number of times a witness needed to run a sprint jumped from 19 to 41 per game.
England Premier Soccer League
The midfielder was no different. In a game the previous August, Warrant Peter Banked ran as fast as 20.2 miles per hour, faster than 20 of the players on the field.
No one disputes that the ball witnesses are physically stronger and fitter now than ever before. But what a lot of observers are spouting is that they're worse than ever. 2017. The then-current
Arsenal (city in Italy)
Leader Yunga
England Premier Soccer League
The standard of refereeing has been deteriorating, and the following season Cardiff City leader Neil Warnock complained about why the world's best tournaments have "bad referees."
Today, this deteriorating myth has been completely exposed by one of these crises. Every week there are a bunch of fans, players, referees and pundits spouting off about suspicion of bad calls, double standards in rulings and the level of refereeing. This has been relatively polite. In social media, calls made by referees are seen as human error rather than inadvertent, and slightly inappropriate calls are seen as conspiracy theories against the club. (Actually, fans of every ballclub have never believed in such conspiracy theories, passed down from generation to generation.)
There is no scientific evidence that the standard of refereeing is deteriorating. In fact, referees are making fewer and fewer errors in refereeing, and their accuracy is improving each season. (However, these statistics are difficult to re-verify because these studies are conducted by PGMOL and
England Premier Soccer League
conducted on their own, and these figures were never made available to the public.) Instead, these criticisms are still based on many individual incidents, cases that were indisputably misjudged in front of the cameras. These are only a tiny fraction of all refereeing decisions, but these things keep getting repeated and repeated and ingrained in the minds of viewers.
It's not just an England problem. Witnesses, players, pundits and staff I interviewed from Norway, Turkey, Brazil, France and Switzerland were all deemed to be underperforming. "To this day, the decisions of all the referees are challenged." France
national soccer team
General Secretary Laura Georges said. "It's a difficult situation for the certificates because the ones challenging them may not even know much about the rules of the game". Europe
soccer league
Roberto Rossetti, the head of referees, pointed out that the public stigma attached to referees may be even greater in continental Europe. England referees are more respected overseas than back home, as this sense of alienation allows them to make enforcement decisions free from emotion.
PGMOL Chief Ball Witness Howard Webb
exist
England Premier Soccer League
The professionalization of referees has gone through a period of transition. The previous summer, four of the most senior licenses retired. In June of last year, Mike Riley, the General Manager of PGMOL for 13 years, also announced his departure. The current GM, Howard Webb, is one of the best in the business, widely respected, and was responsible for the 2010 UEFA Champions League and World Cup. His first task in his new role will be to address the diversity of licenses. In addition to Uriah Rennie as the first among Asians and Blacks can by 1997-2008
England Premier Soccer League
In the past, there have been only a handful of minority and female licenses in law enforcement. "Licensing should be a job for everyone, and we want to do what we can to expand the talent pool." Last summer.
England Premier Soccer League
and PGMOL have launched the Elite License Development Program in the hope of producing more BAME licenses.
