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Emrys

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4. As a counter, football (i.e. soccer) referees are professionals, and are unlikely to deliberately foul their reputations

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Mon Jul 6, 2026, 08:10 PM

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The best are promoted to prestigious status where they are entrusted with refereeing crucial matches by virtue of their performance over their careers, and any hint of crookedness would risk ruining, in some cases, a lifetime's work.

Linesmen are also involved in marginal decisions or when the ref has been unsighted.

It's an everlasting standing joke in football that refs make errors ("Get some glasses! Or a white stick!" ), and VAR was brought in to try to improve that, though its results have been mixed. It does add a potential for further official opinions and longer than split-second decisions when it's invoked.

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What I don't know about soccer - and in the particular the World Cup - is lots and lots and lots . . . [View all] hatrack Monday OP

it is not about football, it is about expanding into a market rampartd Monday #1

Or equally the opposite might be true sarisataka Monday #2

Don't doubt the corruption, but.. thomski64 Monday #3

As a counter, football (i.e. soccer) referees are professionals, and are unlikely to deliberately foul their reputations Emrys Monday #4

Right. There is no indication that the referees would officiate the games dishonestly on purpose. Wiz Imp Monday #5