Referees in League 1
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 7:57 pm
When we were promoted to League 1 I naively thought the standard of football and the standard of refereeing would be much better. Well, the football is certainly better with many good players and exciting sides but the refereeing is not better. Indeed with a few exceptions the refereeing has been truly abysmal. In the last two games clear fouls in the penalty area have been ignored by two incredibly incompetent officials. League 1 referees are biased in favour of the bigger teams and teams like Morecambe suffer week in and week out at the hands of these officials. Surely it is time for a new approach to the recruitment of referees to produce fair, unbiased officials where all teams are playing on a level playing field and there is no feeling that some referees are not just incompetent but favouring some teams. I have resisted using the word corrupt but.......you do wonder!