There was a piece in the Times yesterday about how common sense appears to have deserted refereeing which references a couple of recent decisions. One was a "ball to hand" in the Spurs Newcastle match which resulted in advantage to Newcastle. Not called as the hand was not in an unnatural position. The other was the clash of heads in the Arsenal/Brighton game, called as a penalty.
In my view both the non decision and the decision were wrong. It's only my view though.
My view is also that refs are scared to make any decision that is borderline for fear that VAR will show them it was wrong. Further they perhaps are relying on VAR to call certain decisions rather than ref the game themselves.
The article goes on to say that because of the absence of common sense in refereeing, all supporters of all clubs feel that the ref is against them, even Arsenal who are described as having "every advantage".
So it's not just Atwell, it's all of them.
We just have to accept that good, consistent, fair refs are few and far between. |  |
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