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RE: Poor Performance By World Cup Officials So Far
It's always easy to see in hindsight and reviewing. The highest games I officiated was highschool and mens league soccer in college, but it's not easy to see everything all at once even with 3 people watching what's going on.
Soccer tried adding a 4th official and said that it didn't have any noticeable difference on the quality of the officiating, but I don't see how an extra set of eyes wouldn't. I think the next step is to somehow get AI involved or every sport will have some replay of events after something major happens.
Regardless those officials (at least in FIFA) get paid good money so the amount of scrutiny they're put under for missing these calls is definitely deserved.
I am against AI as it wouldn't be able to read the game like an ex player. Most of the officials that are botching the calls have never played the game and where the real problem lies. It is easy to spot foul play and they see it as legitimate as the rules state if you use your arms in a tackle it is legal. I know from experience you can still cause harm on purpose ,but still be legal according to them.
Yeah I don't agree with AI either, but if you want to get human errors out of any game you're going to have to take the human element out of it somehow.
For soccer I think it's a different skill set that takes a good referee so ex players would make terrible referee. I know because I get too caught up in the game and forget that I need to be taking in the entire picture when I was reffing.
Some players can pull off headbutting the opposition and some how all 3 referees manage to miss it ><