Is There Corruption By Match Officials In The Premier League

[Maestro]

corruption, incompetence and blatant cheating by most refs now in the league

[AFC Leveller]

Yep; I agree.

Just think for a second here, the chief of the match officials is the same guy who awarded Man ure that pel in 2004 and subsequently ended our run. He was bent as fuck back then.

[Niall_Quinn]

The unholy trinity. Demonstrably, in your face, Blatteresque corruption at top of the game. These are the people setting the standards and direction for the game. Then you have television and the billions of quid the likes of Murdoch chuck into the game. This is the guy who bugs the phones of parents of dead children. Finally gambling. You could always go down to the bookies and have a flutter, but now you have the bookies sponsoring the sport and technology allows millions to be harvested from the fans every game. These are the people and organisations setting the tone.

So do we have corruption in football? It would be a miracle if we didn't. Add in the grubby criminals that have been allowed to buy up the clubs. Chuck millions at the kids who are playing the game. Money, money, money. It's the cancer that destroys everything it touches. Football has become another ingredient of a corrupted society, led by self serving crooks and exploiting the inertia of a fan base that still concerns itself with competition and loyalty and endeavour and achievement and all that other prehistoric stuff.

The refs are problem, no doubt. But a minor one compared to the monumental problems the game faces. Controversy sells. In this respect the refs are doing a great job for their paymasters. Wittingly or unwittingly in service of the few at the expense of the many. Instead of developing technology to further exploit fans that have already been raped by runaway costs we could have had technology to assist refs in making those split second decisions someone like Collini could somehow make but the PL lot can't manage. But that would spoil everything. In a way it's a good decision. Because now we have dopers infecting every league how could they be defeated if the ref managed to get every call right? Everything in the game has to be fixed at once if we want to get back to real sport.

[Maestro]

The unholy trinity. Demonstrably, in your face, Blatteresque corruption at top of the game. These are the people setting the standards and direction for the game. Then you have television and the billions of quid the likes of Murdoch chuck into the game. This is the guy who bugs the phones of parents of dead children. Finally gambling. You could always go down to the bookies and have a flutter, but now you have the bookies sponsoring the sport and technology allows millions to be harvested from the fans every game. These are the people and organisations setting the tone.

So do we have corruption in football? It would be a miracle if we didn't. Add in the grubby criminals that have been allowed to buy up the clubs. Chuck millions at the kids who are playing the game. Money, money, money. It's the cancer that destroys everything it touches. Football has become another ingredient of a corrupted society, led by self serving crooks and exploiting the inertia of a fan base that still concerns itself with competition and loyalty and endeavour and achievement and all that other prehistoric stuff.

The refs are problem, no doubt. But a minor one compared to the monumental problems the game faces. Controversy sells. In this respect the refs are doing a great job for their paymasters. Wittingly or unwittingly in service of the few at the expense of the many. Instead of developing technology to further exploit fans that have already been raped by runaway costs we could have had technology to assist refs in making those split second decisions someone like Collini could somehow make but the PL lot can't manage. But that would spoil everything. In a way it's a good decision. Because now we have dopers infecting every league how could they be defeated if the ref managed to get every call right? Everything in the game has to be fixed at once if we want to get back to real sport.

Nail on the fuckin' head

Football is one of the best generators of and laundrette for vast amounts of filthy money. A lot of people would pay with their lives if they ever tried to properly clean up the game.

[Syn]

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