The players, managers and fans quick to jump to conclusions about the integrity of referees and their assistants are contributing to declining standards
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Increasingly facing threats and intimidation, many officials have simply decided to walk away from the game
The system that was meant to help match officials make key decisions is doing more to fuel controversy than settle debates
Video technology was hailed as the saviour of football, until the next day when it was a shambles. Maybe the change the game really needs is not technological at all, as Sean Cole explained in the current issue of WSC
by Paolo Condo
(translated from Italian by Anthony Wright)
DeCoubertin Books, £12.99
Reviewed by Paul Kelly
From WSC 372, February 2018
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