Standard of Refereeing

[Footy-Vill]

In 19 Prem games Simon Hooper hasn’t officiated one of our matches all season.
Yellow 94 Red 2 5.05 cards/game

[ChicagoLion]

Another useless twat.

[Somniloquism]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czj438xxkg9o

Unless it is Atwell in which case he will still book the captain for approaching them.

[SaddVillan]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/30/evolution-referees-speed-tests-data-psychologists-superfoods-pgmo?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Getting their excuses in early.

Being as fit as a fiddle counts for nothing if they can't get the basics right - and I'm looking at you, Thomas Bramhall.

One suggestion - instead of hiding behind glib formulaic statements, why doesn't PGMOL put someone up the explain some of the more "controversial" decisions?

Yonks ago, I went away to Oakwell on my own and sat in the main stand. I slagged off a decision and the bloke sitting beside me introduced himself as a local league referee and then proceeded to take me through the game from the perspective of the ref, explaining why the ref had made decisions that didn't make sense to me.

An eye opener to say the least.

A 2-3 minute "The ref explains" slot on MOTD would, I'm sure be really helpful in educating fans about the way games are reffed.

[London Villan]

Explaining decisions in the ground and more detailed post match, would do a lot rebuild trust.

[Somniloquism]

Webb all last season was doing transparancy videos and releasing Audio of all contentious decisions with either explanations or holding up hands on mistakes. Apparently though the transparency stops for the last two rounds of matches as nothing was ever released for the Manu one but the tweet on the day.

[kippaxvilla2]

As expected that horrendous mistake was swept under the carpet.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

As expected that horrendous £100m mistake was swept under the carpet.

FTFY

[Somniloquism]

By everyone, including ourselves officially. You would have thought it would have been pushed to get the PGMOL call on whether a ref should blow for a foul when it looks like a goal could be scored or leave it and then review it. But no, season is over so nothing more needs to be done including "being transparent".

[martin o`who??]

Only the Footballing God's know how much I hate VAR. Give me a bit of human error any day of the week.

[kippaxvilla2]

@refereewatch Controversial referee Thomas Bramall is in line for a quick reunion with Aston Villa and has been earmarked for their opening game against Newcastle at home on August 16th.

[ozzjim]

I'll be booing the fuckwit from kick off. Did I read he was conveniently ref for United on their recent tour and gave a ludicrous pen to them?

[chrisw1]

@refereewatch Controversial referee Thomas Bramall is in line for a quick reunion with Aston Villa and has been earmarked for their opening game against Newcastle at home on August 16th.

That would be a ridiculous appointment.

[LeeB]

@refereewatch Controversial referee Thomas Bramall is in line for a quick reunion with Aston Villa and has been earmarked for their opening game against Newcastle at home on August 16th.

That would be a ridiculous appointment.

'Deliberately provocotive' would be my take.

[Hookeysmith]

when will this be announced as it is usually the Monday before the game so nothing listed as yet.
|I cannot believe that twat would be at VP first game, or any game to be honest