Refereeing at the World Cup

Howard Webb has been the best referee at this world cup by miles. That sums it up really, the other refs should be ashamed!

Nah tbf, Webby has been decent and that linesman ITV keep bumming

The referee's have been shocking at times and there has been some absolute howlers , but that is part of football , the human element . I know it's a cliche but "ya gotta take the good with the bad" . The major problem i see is that the referee's seem to be handin out yellows for fun , let the games flow for fucks sake

Sums it up an English ref stands out for his professionalism and ability to control the game.
How hard is it to have a standard that ALL officials have to meet?
The only difficulty is a self important,pompous arsehole that thinks he is rule maker and can alter the whole structure of football step forward shithead Blatter.
Today he has apologised for the mistakes with the disallowed goal and an offside ruling in some other game and said once again that goal line technology will be reviewed??? Does he think we're as stupid as he is?
As soon it becomes patently clear how inefficient some FIFA officials are and consequently the ruling bodies Blatter is out on his arse, it can't be any other way, so Blatter and his cohorts are basically cheating themselves.

When you see a confident Mexico smash the ball into the crossbar, and almost score twice in the first 5 minutes against Argentina...............

and then a minute later you see Argentina awarded a non goal that was clearly offside, you realise what a farce this world cup has been.

After that, everything that happens is different. The same thing applies in the case of lampards goal not counting.

Teams like Mexico and England, are decent sides... but not strong enough to be able to win in the face of horrific refereeing.  As a fan and a lover of world football, I am bitterly disapointed that many matches have been ruined as a spectacle and a contest by a string of shocking refereeing decisions.

The entire tournament has been compromised by this, with several teams lucky to still be in contention, and others unlucky to be on the plane home. It would have been nice to see how many matches would have panned out,  without the mindless and atrocious interference from officials.

I guarantee that before this tournament comes to a conclusion there will be more contraversy, and who knows which team shall next be denied their world cup destiny.
We shall never know what the natural destiny of several teams would have been had the officials got things correct, but the sad thing is they were never allowed to find out.

Four years of waiting, qualifying, and expectation all to be ruined in a split second by a substandard referee or linesman that should never have been there.
Until these people are replaced by technology the world cup will remain a joke, and at the end of the day be held aloft by the team who escaped with the least number of travesties by referees. 
Perhaps the ludicrous red card of Kaka came at the right time for Brazil, who have now maybe got their dose of bad medicine out of the way early in the tournament.
Spain have enjoyed an armchair ride, and benifited nicely from refereeing errors, so maybe they are due for their bad medicine just when it counts the most.    You heard it first here.... so dont be surprised when it comes.

The Referee's in this WC have been either great or abysmal. Its been 2 distinct outcomes.

The no goal for the 2 US match's and the Lampard goal were so blatantly wrong it is amazing. Not too mention the Tevez offside in the Argentina match.  Which 2 referees even talked to eachother and still got it wrong.

In a sport which can easily go 0-0 any goal is immensly Important. If FIFA cant adopt goal line tech or replay tech, then it's a massive black eye for the game. For any team to get knocked out of the WC on a blatant missed call is a disgrace. FIFA better get their sh*t together or its going to turn the sport into a joke.

I'm sick of all this rubbish refereeing. I am Australian and I am sick to death of the way the refs treat us lower footballing nations. See Vidic's handball against Germany??? If Kewell got red, Nemanja should've got red.

It is quite pathetic.

I agree YANK, they've either been fantastic or terrible. I have to say I think I saw one of the finest referring performances I've ever witnessed today with the Holland v Brazil game. Nishimura Yuichi should be hired by the Premier League next year. He was awesome, no nonsense, didn't let the players get away with little cheats that ref's seem to allow these days, and actually got almost every decision right. Thought he was great today and a cut above the rest of the ref's in South Africa.

Results: How do you rate the World Cup referees?

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What do you think of the referees' performance at this World Cup?

    * Exceptional 0.8% (27 votes)
    * Acceptable 5.72% (192 votes)
    * Woeful 93.48% (3138 votes)

Total votes: 3357


taken from the heraldsun   website    after the spain v paraguay  latest debacle   

i rest my case     

the world cup has been turned into a circus  and the officials are the clowns 

I would like to congratulate Howard Webb and his team for being the first English men since 1974 to referee a World Cup final,it is a great honnor to be chosen and a well deserved one.Howard is one of the Premierships finest and among the best in Europe and highly respected plus he has the experience for a high profile game eg The Champions League final,so I say Good Luck Howard and have a great final.