Originally posted by Palynka
When has it been better?
i don't know, never that i can remember. is the fact that it's always been mediocre to poor (especially at the world cup) a reason not to seek change?
i can only remember watching the past 3 world cups were i was also looking at the referees, each time there has been a few referees who simply were out of their depths, no where near good enough to referees the 'best players in the world'. i can only assume it was the same in previous world cups.
it's not so bad in the major leagues in europe and s. america, yeah you get bad decisions and fans complain but for the most part the referees are competent at their jobs. why fifa doesn't do its best to get the top referees from the top leagues in around the world at the world cup is beyond me. probably to gets votes in the next fifa presidential election.
you can not say that you've been happy with the refereeing at the world cup on a whole this year like fifa has came out publicly and said they are. clearly there needs to be some sort of refereeing table put in place over the 4 years prior to a world cup with the top 25 or whatever chosen to referee at the world cup, regardless of where they're from.
since technology doesn't seem to brought into football anytime soon to help referees i'd at least like to see only the top refs at the world cup.