From: Abubakr on
On Jun 22, 1:31 am, "Paul C" <p...(a)thersgb.net> wrote:
> If there isn't one already, shouldn't FIFA create a world ranking of
> referees so that only the top 20 or so get to officiate in the WC Finals?
>
> It would spare us having to witness the embarrassing spectacle of the
> Guatemalan ref, the Saudi ref, and Graham Poll.

I think the worst of the lot was the Frenchman in Brazil-CIV.
From: Clément on
On Jun 22, 10:29 am, HASM wrote:
> "Paul C" writes:
> > If there isn't one already, shouldn't FIFA create a world ranking of
> > referees so that only the top 20 or so get to officiate in the WC Finals?
>
> They do that already, but they need to allocate those through the
> confederations, just like they do teams, i.e. the teams currently on the
> tournament are not the top 32 teams in the world either.  

They don't really *need* to, they want to.

Abraço,

Luiz Mello
From: The Scrutineer on


"Abubakr" <deltarasha(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 22, 1:31 am, "Paul C" <p...(a)thersgb.net> wrote:
>> If there isn't one already, shouldn't FIFA create a world ranking of
>> referees so that only the top 20 or so get to officiate in the WC Finals?
>>
>> It would spare us having to witness the embarrassing spectacle of the
>> Guatemalan ref, the Saudi ref, and Graham Poll.
>
> I think the worst of the lot was the Frenchman in Brazil-CIV.

YUK

From: Abubakr on
On Jun 22, 11:33 pm, Clément <lcmello.lis...(a)terra.com.br> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 10:29 am, HASM wrote:
>
> > "Paul C" writes:
> > > If there isn't one already, shouldn't FIFA create a world ranking of
> > > referees so that only the top 20 or so get to officiate in the WC Finals?
>
> > They do that already, but they need to allocate those through the
> > confederations, just like they do teams, i.e. the teams currently on the
> > tournament are not the top 32 teams in the world either.  
>
> They don't really *need* to, they want to.

There's no comparative rating system, so far as I know, so it's not so
any such selection process, i.e. 20 top referees in the world, won't
be so straightforward.

From: Clément on
On Jun 22, 10:37 am, Abubakr wrote:
> On Jun 22, 11:33 pm, Clément wrote:
>
> > On Jun 22, 10:29 am, HASM wrote:
>
> > > "Paul C" writes:
> > > > If there isn't one already, shouldn't FIFA create a world ranking of
> > > > referees so that only the top 20 or so get to officiate in the WC Finals?
>
> > > They do that already, but they need to allocate those through the
> > > confederations, just like they do teams, i.e. the teams currently on the
> > > tournament are not the top 32 teams in the world either.  
>
> > They don't really *need* to, they want to.
>
> There's no comparative rating system, so far as I know, so it's not so
> any such selection process, i.e. 20 top referees in the world,  won't
> be so straightforward.

I suppose you could be right. I just think it's not a good idea to
apply the concept of representativeness to World Cup referees. Teams,
absolutely. Referees, not so much.

Assuming there's a way of ranking referees all around the world, the
very best among them should be at the World Cup (making sure there
would be enough neutral referees for every match, of course).

Abraço,

Luiz Mello