Who think that there should be two referees in a game?

Question

Besides two lines man, I think there should be one more infield referee so that they will be more right calls. In NFL, (national football league in America) there are a lot of referees who make the decisions together.
Tell me your opinion.

Answer 1

Three might be better!!! (lol!)
One should be on the field and he should consult another refs who should have a tv screen [just like third umpire in cricket] and tell certain decisions [like fouls n freekicks]

Answer 2

Football in America uses 7 on-field officials, of which the head referee is the crew chief. The rest are the umpire, head linesman, side judge, back judge, field judge, and line judge. You need more in football because many penalties occur away from the ball. And obviously the first answerer has never tried to play the game, for it is anything but pansy, especially as our players don't tend to roll around on the ground trying to draw penalties against the other team.

I could see the need to use a second referee in soccer, but you'd still have to have one head ref.

Answer 3

I think 1 ref is fine - the question is why has FIFA decided, to change what is called just before the start of the WOrld Cup? There are few completely missed calls - even in the cheap fest Portugal - Neth game - the side judge made some key calls, like the cheap headbutt a Portugal player made behind the refs back. I truly believe a lot of these top refs are being made fools of by FIFA themselves, for demanding "more yellow, reds" be called - causing the ref to call things he normally wouldn't. IN rugby, there is 1 ref, with 2 linesman - and they do a pretty good job, considering they (like soccer) try to follow the ball mainly.
There are clearly some horrid refs - like Lorrando, but there are also quality refs that are forced to call things that are both not normally called fouls and are not within their normal range of penalties.
Is it just me - or does it appear that FIFA made a decision to go against agressive teams, while protecting the finesse teams?

Answer 4

i'm no longer completely optimistic in this challenge. i'm able to work out both arguements for and adverse to. What i imagine we favor extra besides the undeniable fact that is referee's being consistant with one yet another. If one ref provides a desicion on a nasty and yet another ref shall we this slip in a diverse sport then gamers are extra in all probability to push the boundries to work out what they can interrupt out with in a tournament. If we had uniform referee's to be able to speak then the game will be alot extra focussed on football extremely than the first 0.5-hour of play finding out what the referee will enable. So my answer extremely is short time period; re-practice referee's so all of them enable and dis-enable an same issues then see the position issues bypass for the destiny imaginitive and prescient. probably 2 referee's in the destiny besides the very undeniable actuality that this may reason arguements between referee's reviews! also I say attempt referee's on a commonplace foundation (each 3-6 months) in preserving with contemporary tournament incidents the position the alternative given is arguably the incorrect decision made and penalize referee's who make stupid desicions. I also say deliver decrease back Pierluigi Collina!

Answer 5

Here (in Australia) we have 3 Referees, 2 linesmen (boundary umpires & 2 goal umpires (thinking of going to 4 goal umpires).

I'd love to see 2 ref's - particularly from the countries represented. Let them punch on and create their own theatre!

Answer 6

No there should be 4. B/c 2 people can't always see everything. I play for my school and we sometimes have 2 and they always can't see a foul or something like that. 4 refs would work out better.

Answer 7

I think at least they should experiment with it. I remember they did it in high school games in the early 70's and worked just fine.

Answer 8

one referee is trouble enough..u wanna put in 2?argghhhh...that's horrible...

Answer 9

thanks but no thanks.. i have no wish for football to change and the last thing i want is for it to be in any way like the pansy 'football' of america...

what the ref says is law