Americans get a lot of unnecessary derision because they insist on calling football ‘soccer’ etc so I wouldn’t want to exclude Americans. But it has to be on merit otherwise what’s the point?
The point of my post is that arbitrarily limiting a position to those with a specific nationality, necessarily limits the quality of those in said position. So if an American is good enough sure, but if they’re not going to improve it then not a chance.
Afraid I’m going to have to disagree here… Though we might be able to find common ground. My issue with players in VAR is that almost every pundit is a former player and they consistently come out with biased, inconsistent, and often objectively incorrect information.
Where I think there’s more scope to reflect your point is in giving ex players a role in IFAB’s development of the laws but I wouldn’t want them anywhere near VAR.
You might not be surprised to hear that I voted remain and have only become more anti-brexit since it happened!
This is exactly my thinking. It’s hard to measure but it seems rather unlikely that there aren’t some referees working elsewhere who would improve the pgmol.
Totally agree. I’m not shitting on English refs here I just think there’s enough money in English football to import the very best (as we do with players despite a good talent pool of English players).
That could easily be changed though. There’s plenty enough money in the system to pay them more if that’s the main hurdle to getting the best
All fair comments. Though when a culture needs fixing, importing new people and their ideas can be a helpful start.