Honest question: I’m a longtime premier league fan from the US. In my over 10 years of watching English football, I’ve never seen a person of color as the center referee in a premier league match. Does anyone know why this is? A significant percentage (majority) of premier league players are not white, and given research around subconscious bias, you have to imagine the league and refereeing body would have an interest in having their game officials be representative of the players they officiate? With the quality of officiating being in the news so much recently, increasing diversity in the ranks of game officials could be one idea. I imagine it’s just a big old boys club though…
I’m more concerned about why they are all absolutely useless and why Tierney is still allowed to ref LFC games. He doesn’t even bother to hide his hatred of LFC. Biased is a massive understatement. I’m not sure he made a correct call all half there! Best league in the world, but the worst refs in the world.