Referee Mistakes Quotes

Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

Everyone makes mistakes, but when players or managers make mistakes, they are all accountable and have to take responsibility. When I talk about referees, you wonder, 'Can I say this?' You have to be careful - but they are the only group in the world of football who are treated like that.

VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

Referees are human beings, and they make mistakes.

Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?

There are many penalties which referees don't see. Sometimes they are right, and many other times, they are wrong. That is football.

For me to be speaking of the referees, then you know it must be something big.

No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a foul or no foul. We just have to deal with that in the game. There's gonna be plenty more of those. Referees are humans, so it's not a problem.