Quote:There no small time refs in the World Cup. FIFA refs are essentially groomed by having the lead consecutively more important matches. The Dutch ref this World Cup may comeffrom the ti y Eredivisie but he has been building a career for years and this year led the CL final.


Not to men tion they have performance reviews for each game and often don't get picked for more games when they perofrm badly.


The FIFA may be corrupt but I doubt any of the refs this World Cup are.

 

The refs in the World Cup may be on the up and up (but who really knows?) but weren't matches leading up to the World Cup in South Africa fixed?  I was reading countries/mafia in Asian countries were paying countries to let them use their refs.  Surprisingly there were higher amounts of goals scored, and those "companies" won lots of cash in betting on them.

 

Who knows what they'll find leading up to this World Cup.

 

Until countries start cracking down on the bribery and going after the people that do it, it will happen because some people are making lots of money off of it.

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