O?T Action required on referees
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:57 am
In a professional sport where standards of play are improving it is surely time for the EFL to look at the standard of refereeing. Some officials have shown themselves to be hopelessly out of their depth officiating matches and nothing seems to be done and year after year fans groan on occasions when they see who has been assigned to their club's game. That was my experience when I saw the referee assigned to our game against Walsall. I regard Graham Salisbury as an extremely poor referee based on his performances in Shrimps games previously. His performance last night only confirmed my feelings and evidently frustrated our manager DA also! I have found over the years his decision making is inconsistent and erratic and I have found he struggles to keep in touch with play. I am perplexed what his assessors think of his performances as nothing changes and he continues to be allowed to spoil games. I realise refereeing can be a thankless task but I think action is needed to improve the recruitment, the fitness and training of match officials to ensure more consistency in games. At the moment it is a lottery which referee is assigned to matches and that decision often determines the result of games. It is surely time for EFL action to sort out this huge problem.