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World Cup 2018 Match Officials

Riviera
Riviera Posts: 8,167
in Other Football and Sports
There will be no British refs or linos at the world cup.

Has Vlad had a word?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43110905

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  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Not sure if it is a requirement but only the English refs are full time
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Putting us in our place.

    We have some of the best refs in the business.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Redrobo said:

    Putting us in our place.

    We have some of the best refs in the business.

    And yet fans, players and managers still moan about them week in and week out
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,760
    edited March 2018
    "Mark Clattenburg was the only Briton on Fifa's long list of officials, collated in summer 2016, from which it would choose the final selection for Russia.

    But he left his job with the Premier League and forfeited his place.

    Clattenburg, who took charge of the Euro 2016 final when Portugal overcame hosts France, quit his job as a top-flight official in February 2017 to become Saudi Arabia's new head of referees."
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    FIFA is a prime example of why "one country, one vote" is not a good idea. The same goes for the IAAF and the UN. When everyone gets a vote no matter their relative strength or contribution, everything becomes a race to the bottom and corruption runs rampant.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,841
    Probably just as well, as when England reach the final an English referee wouldn't be able to officiate anyway
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    NapaAddick said:

    FIFA is a prime example of why "one country, one vote" is not a good idea. The same goes for the IAAF and the UN. When everyone gets a vote no matter their relative strength or contribution, everything becomes a race to the bottom and corruption runs rampant.

    'One country, one vote' ... and this year that country is Russia.

    It's their World Cup and Putin is going to run it his way.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    paulie8290 said:

    Redrobo said:

    Putting us in our place.

    We have some of the best refs in the business.

    And yet fans, players and managers still moan about them week in and week out
    That is a national pastime. I think they are pretty good.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,300
    Why not have a referee at the World Cup from each of the Qualified Nations?

    Worries me that the level the Gambian and French Polynesian officials are used to will be lower than our Conference level yet get to Referee on the biggest stage

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