akm91 said:
Even if the penalty was called and we converted, we probably still would've have lost. Mexico was just better but the ridiculous refereeing in CONCACAF hasn't gotten any better.
I attribute this to the participation trophy mentality that everyone has embraced.
Every nation has to be represented so you get ref's from smaller countries who don't have as much experience, b/c of the lack of opportunity to gain that experience, in these high level matches they have no business working.
It's going on with female ref's too. I ref club and HS and the ration of male to female refs is at least 4:1. Yet we see men's games with all female crews (who cannot keep up with play) and the last Woman's world cup was all female officials (IIRC). NFW there are that many females at that level to cover all those games unless they were pushed up the ladder.
And to be clear, I'm not disparaging female officials. I've worked plenty of good ones and bad ones (and plenty of bad male officials as well), I'm simply pointing out the numbers don't add up.
