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Official secrets: Crazed, partisan conspiracy theories make refereeing even harder

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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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Whistle unhappy: referee shortage as endless abuse causes recruitment crisis

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Increasingly facing threats and intimidation, many officials have simply decided to walk away from the game

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Editorial: VAR aiming for perfection in a game that makes it impossible

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The system that was meant to help match officials make key decisions is doing more to fuel controversy than settle debates

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Football doesn’t need VAR – it needs an end to referee-blaming culture

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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

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The Duellists: Pep, José and the birth of football’s greatest rivalry

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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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