Are Officials losing the plot?

[Ronners]

We got away with a few decisions at Preston, if I remember correctly. I've also officiated, and got many calls wrong, but they were all done honestly, even when reffing my own team.

All referees decisions are made honestly jock but there are too many honest wrong decisions happening, hence the arrival of VAR, and whilst VAR has caused controversy at times, I believe that it has mainly changed decisions correctly.

[CAMiller]

All referees decisions are made honestly jock but there are too many honest wrong decisions happening, hence the arrival of VAR, and whilst VAR has caused controversy at times, I believe that it has mainly changed decisions correctly.

Wrong decisions have always been made and more than likely the rate of making them hasn't changed, just the means of examining them with the proliferation of TV etc. Even in 'the good old days' if there was video evidence of a 'mistake' it was (and in some cases still is) examined with forensic fervour. Examples that spring to mind are the '66 goal that was/wasn't and the early 1970's 'offside' goal that WBA scored to cost Dirty Leeds the League Title.

Again, in the 'good old days' if we were the subject of a bad decision it would have been talked about in the pubs and forgotten about by about 9pm on a Saturday after half a dozen pints or so. Today, it's home to watch it on TV/YouTube/iFollow and see if the player's left nipple was ahead of the line drawn parallel to the zit on the defenders arse