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You and I are the average football fan and i believe that we have the mental capacity to handle explanations from paid professionals over why they gave completely different decisions without a referees safety being in jeopardy, I also think we deserve them. Teenagers are rolled out every week in front of cameras to explain decisions so why can’t referees? If they don’t then nobody can complain about the fact that people won’t be charitable with their conclusions. The only people that know the answers to these questions refuse to give them and then complain that fans speculate unkindly, what else did they think would happen? Fans are the only ones who aren’t being paid to be there yet they’re treated with total contempt for having the audacity to assume that anything they think matters. Fans pay an absolute fortune to watch games decided by players on the field, not by officials with out of control egos. Egos that we are responsible for by infantilizing them and by turning them in to celebrities. Nobody expects perfection from them and we know it’s a hard job but that’s why they’re paid professionals. The game is being absolutely destroyed by officiating
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The VAR wanted a closer look at a potential hair pull by Dominic Calvert-Lewin on Marc Cucurella... Nothing doing. The Leeds United forward had his hair pulled by Manchester United Lisandro Martinez at Old Trafford — the Argentinian was shown a red card... 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹. Modern football.
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