2014 MLS Referee Assignments and Discussion [Rs]

I'm so very glad we have you to butt in with ignorant, sarcastic comments that add absolutely nothing to the discussion at hand.

 

Thought the red to be a bit harsh, but Elfath had a great view of it. SFP in his eyes.

 

Using SketchUp I determined he's onside by roughly a foot. At the time that this capture is taken he is roughly even.

 

Have to wonder if the Seattle player having his foot (mostly?) planted played a part here, because otherwise Red definitely seems pretty harsh. To my untrained eyes at least.

 

Yeah, this doesn't look good for Guzman.

 

The deal though is that the pool reporter is supposed to be ID'd before the game, with his info on the wall in the locker room. This is to keep just any reporter--but especially a home town reporter--who is hacked about a call coming to the ref's locker room for answers. And the home town rep showing him a picture of the form on his cell phone obviously doesn't count as being posted on the wall.
I bet--and I think its a safe bet--that Guzman called someone from PRO to ask about what to do with the question. I seriously doubt he ignored it on his own initiative. I"m not trying to defend his call (obviously) but the reporter can't declare himself to be the pool reporter in the 83rd minute of the game.

 

But that excuse stinks from 100s of miles away.

"I'm sorry but you only put your first and last name on your test paper. You omitted your middle name, your score on this test is a Zero."

 

Regardless of who decided not to address the question, I hope it's clear what a terrible idea that is.

 

From Wash Post's Steve Geoff's tweet:

@SoccerInsider: On DCU-Columbus play, "This is a clear case of DOGSO," PRO training & development manager Paul Rejer tells me #mls

 

Guzman has had a rough couple of weeks.

 

Was surprised the Columbus keeper wasn't cautioned for instigating the confrontation. He reached almost between the DC players legs to provoke a response. That's unsporting to me.

 

I've never quite figured out why Guzman got a FIFA badge in the first place over guys like Elfath or Villarreal.

 

It goes to my point that the PSRA refs are no better than the third tier "scabs" that we saw the first two weeks. I kept hearing just how good the union guys were and they are making very obvious mistakes, with seemingly little accountability.

And then someone will chime in with the "well you never reffed and you don't notice all of these subtle things, blah, blah, blah, LOTG , etc.". What I notice is the refs butchering calls and games - which everyone notices.

Blunt reality is the MLS refs are not very good as a group and are not improving.

 

I expect we will never know.

 

You should check out the EPL referee thread. Some of the best refs in the world work the EPL and they've had some mystifying games of late.

I suspect fan complaints about their refs are interchangeable for any league in the world except for who they point to as the example of good refs.

 

Here's one of his posts on another forum.

"It wasn't excessive. Just a ref with a small dick trying to make his mark on the game"

Just a bitter Houston fan that can't get over the fact his team makes stupid decisions.

 

And nobody in that forum seemed to have an issue with it. I'm glad we're in a forum with a much higher level of discourse, where people who threaten to derail discussion are dealt with properly.

 

What makes you say the scabs were "third tier"? Two were foreign FIFA refs who moved to the U.S. (and are doing games post-lockout), two were current FIFAs for another federations, and a fifth was a former MLS referee.

Say what you want, but PRO worked very hard to make sure the men in the middle of the field had experience during the lockout.