Who’s the person in the black, purple, red, green….
They are the referee who is a human just like the rest of us, but has the fortune of 22 players, at least 6 management team and at Wimbledon, 8k fans in there hands by making the correct decisions during 90 to 110 minutes of football. Of course what determines a correct decision depends on what colours you have on show at the time. I have long been annoyed at the scrutiny the referees are under and what now seems to be an impossible job. With the introduction of VAR it has become even more impossible with every decision checked beyond a clear and obvious error. We now have many people at Stockley Park checking every decision with multiple angles, multiple speeds and multiple opinions. Every weekend I long for a referee to be asked to go to the VAR screen and then tell the people in his ear to do one and they will stick with the decision they made in the heat of battle. The irony is that the English Premier League (EPL) voted VAR in by a massive majority, yet they do everything ...
