"It is just like with players, if they miss an open goal they are likely to be dropped." Referees' chief Keith Hackett said: "It is just like with players, if they miss an open goal they are likely to be dropped."
Well hang on just a sec there Mr. Hackett, you're wrong. Strikers don't get dropped if they miss an open goal. Are Jermain Defoe, Michael Owen etc etc being dropped for missing sitters for England? NO. Are they being ordered to phone up the England coach to apologise for missing? NO. Are they being humiliated in front of the nation and treated like schoolboys? NO.
So I would suggest Mr Hackett adopts a little more the independent attitudes that referees take and stop acting as the lackey of the Premier League and the commercial interests that run it.
Humiliating one of the top referees in the country is not the way to give him the confidence to work on avoiding mistakes. Throwing him to the premiership wolves baying for blood may relieve the pressure on Hackett for a few days, but is he seriously going to drop referees every time they make a mistake? I think not. They'll soon be calling on part-time hackers like me because there won't be any left in the top flight.
Mr Hackett, I'm astonished that you lack the courage to tell premier league managers that referees sometimes make mistakes. Perhaps it's time you thought about dropping yourself because I don't think you're helping refs very much.
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