Well the whole thing just seemed to be a weird tangent really. From you using the word bookable to mean something other than its widely established meaning, to you talking about offside in a conversation about subjective calls, to you saying you were only talking about calls that absolutely everybody in the world agreed were wrong (which are extremely rare and have already been addressed anyway) to you plucking the idea that i 'refuse to accept' the idea of corruption, despite me never having suggested anything of the sort. All in all it just seemed a very bizarre response. But yeah, it appears we're in agreement about refs just making errors rather than being bribed.
With respect this debate started when orginally I responded to your post where you had stated:
That's why when people say 'yeah but look at this thing that happened in another game where a different decision was reached' it's pointless, because it will always be a subjective call.
I pointed out that such decisions are not
always subjective, after which in the next post you stated that by always you "meant always as in 'it will never change'.
But mate how was I honestly to have known that by saying it would "always be a subjective call" in one instance that you actually meant
always as in it will never change? I could make my own argument for weirdness!
Another thing is that although I was replying to your post, I was also just expressing opinions about the topic in general not purposefully designing each point as a means of attacking you personally.
I agree I maybe wrongly assumed you were arguing no corruption exists in football, but then that was just the impression I got and still do to some extent.
In the context of this argument, I think whereas I tend to believe in corruption more, you yourself believe it is incompetence or just difficult working conditions and are more willing to give refs the benefit of the doubt? Correct me if I am wrong of course.
I should also point out though that I'm not blaming the refs as much as I am the system that is now in place. I just wonder about the suits sitting in the control room at the other end of those microphones to be honest!
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