Originally Published December 21st 2023 for For Green Fields clients
As a Network, we are pleasantly surprised by the performance of Howard Webb at the PGMOL.
Last season he ridded us of the corrupted inputs of Neil Swarbrick, Lee Mason and Mike Dean.
He is expanding the roster of match officials including, for the first time, a woman referee - Rebecca Welch and reintroducing a Black match official for the first time in 15 years since Uriah Rennie was last overlooked.
SuAndi (see - Life )runs the Black Arts Alliance and the organisation have produced a template demonstrating where institutional racism rears its ugly head in the UK.
The football industry is one of the worst offenders with an incredibly small and inappropriate number of managers, referees and senior officials coming from a BAME background.
One of the best ways to undermine the organised crime-led systemic corruption in the EPL is to markedly increase the roster of match officials as bookmakers (and clubs) would have far less interest in employing the services of, say, Michael Salisbury, if he only officiated a handful of games per year.
There are, however, some negatives in the Webb era.
Many more match officials have been monetising their control of the match outcome by linking with market makers and by proxy trading.
An incredibly bad idea is the idea of using former players to officiate games (12 have apparently had their names put forward to be considered for fast track training).
This structure will be gamed by organised crime and you can bet your bottom dollar that the first wave of player/referees will be dominated by the SWUC cartel of agents.
Another bad idea is the 10 minute sin bin for dissent and professional fouls as it will add further pressures to the referee, lead to more delays in the game and, by nature, will be entirely arbitrary in its execution.
It will actually lead to an increase in professional fouls as a 10 minute sin bin versus a straight red card is a gamble most pro players would be willing to take.
Last Sunday, our allegedly premier referee, Michael Oliverpool, sent off Diogo Dalot for an almost identical (but lesser) show of dissent than that exhibited earlier in the Liverpool v Man United game by Darwin Nunez.
Suddenly, dissent red cards are all the rage having been conspicuous by their absence for a decade or two - Dunk and Dalot are the new wave.
The decision by Michael Oliverpool was so blatantly tilted that Match of the Day elected not to show the Nunez incident to avoid comparison.
We ran a poll on Twitter asking punters which player most deserved to be red carded and 87% chose Nunez.
A former referee to whom integrity is a carcinogenic growth states that: "VAR has created tension".
Of course, Mark Clattenburg was heavily involved in the fake of the Leicester City 2015/16 title triumph (sic) but he is correct that the criminalisation of the VAR process in the EPL has increased tension for everybody in the sport.
Here are a couple of ideas (aside from those we agree with above) that would improve the game.
Allow all managers (and not just Jurgen Klopp) to object to PGMOL appointments - in the inquiry into the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, her sons successfully objected to the individuals put forward by the mafia state to oversee the evidence.
As a result of this, the main perpetrators are in jail, are going to jail, are being held in jail pre-trial or are hiding in the murky shadows under Muscat and Schembri's organised crime cesspit.
As an aside, the more we observe Yorgen Fenech (one of the masterminds of Daphne's murder), the more we see John Colquhoun.
Their lives are on the same trajectory.
As the old Malese saying tells us:
iż-żejt dejjem jitla’ fil-wiċċ tal-ilmaOil always rises to the water's surface - justice is inevitable.
Another marked improvement would be to position the 4th Official away from the managers dugouts as bullying managers can influence matters on the pitch and rogue referees can report privileged information from target managers back to Stockley Park (from where, by magic, it ends up in the hands of organised crime and bookmakers).
The nonsense of sending referees to Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates needs to end - again, by mystical magic, it produces betting markets that correlate with the match outcome and the match decisions therein.
The selection of referees and other officials should be largely randomised - there is minimal differential in performance between EPL and the EFL and, once again, systemic matchfixing would be reduced.
John Brooks is VAR Official for tomorrow night's game between Aston Villa and Sheffield United.
He is also referee for tonight's game between Crystal Palace and Brighton and Hove Albion.
He was also VAR for the previous EPL match between Liverpool and Manchester United last Sunday.
And, you know what, he's also VAR for the final pre-Christmas event between Wolves and Chelsea on Sunday.
10 games...
... 4 appointments.
It goes without saying that there is no other league in the world where this happens.
The mantra from the PGMOL remains that corruption must be invisible.
We are made invisible too.
We cannot exist.
We could, if we so chose, make the bottom drop out of their corruption universe.
We are the singularity at the centre of the black hole at the core of their galaxy.
We can't be seen to be in existence.
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