IT’S ALL GREEK TO US
An apparently foolproof solution regularly mooted by those fed up with what they perceive to be the abject standard of refereeing in the English top flight is to outsource the job to foreign match officials, because they never get anything wrong. Not Jarred Gillett, an Australian once held up as the standard-bearer for how the job should be done after a flamin’ clip of him in action during an A-League game went viral, but who has been embroiled in more than his fair share of controversies since hitching his Ute to the PGMOL wagon. Not the Spanish match officials who have brandished an astonishing 95 red cards in La Liga already this season, compared to the 24 shown by their counterparts in the Premier League. And not the Brazilian fellow who incensed so many English players, pundits, hacks and fans with his performance in the HR World Cup quarter-final against France. No, foreign whistleblowers are contention-proof and we need more of them coming over here, taking our referees’ jobs.
