‎Do referee officials always have a fair advantage?

[Cryptomultiplier]

 
‎I have thought about this from top to bottom and I still come to a biased conclusion based on football and other major league tournaments I have seen live and how a particular team just seems to be spotless and the other one is the scapegoat, maybe due to less star players or because they are not as big or popular as the former.
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‎Refereeing as an officiate duty is supposed to be objective even with the initiative of VAR/relay technology to make it more efficient and accurate as possible, but we can't rule out the human psychology and systemic factors that can create a perceived advantage.
‎It is strictly forbidden for a referee to consciously favor any team as it could mean the end of the career of such a referee found wanting, still, a well documented scientific researched phenomenon, doesn't rule out the subconscious bias which can interfere in a referee's decision and create the perceived advantage I am talking about.
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‎I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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[Orpichukwu]

I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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Referees are supposed to officiate without being biased, and any referee who has a connection with any playing team should not be the one officiating to remove the temptation of favouring one particular team over the other.

In just the concluded At AFCON, the Ghanaian referee who officiated the finals between Morocco and Senegal was said to have taken a bribe from the host nation (Morocco) because of how things were obviously going on the field; it was pretty obvious that he was against Senegal players.

[PX-Z]

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‎I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?

Refs are supposed to be fair at all times, since they're part of the officiating crew, but there are incidents where bias is obvious, even if they never admit it. Just look at the recent SEA games basketball final between Thailand and PH. The Thai team got 37 free throws, the highest in SEA games history (maybe even in FIBA or World Cup (35 is the highest record) levels too lol).

And despite all that favoritism (cheating) and home court advantage, they still lost, which makes it even more hilarious.

[justinlamode]

Most times nothing is really fair in life and even when they seem to be fair, they are never perfect. Referees are humans, they can never be perfect in what they do but there should be acceptable limits in their officiation which is why they introduce things like the VAR which enables them see what happened many times to be able to make clear and unbiased decision. We should not forget that there is a way the decision will make obvious wrong decision that he will be punished by the governing bodies.

[Odusko]

Event's such the one above points out to why some people believe that referees can act in a way that the public will start thinking that their acted in bias to one team, alot happens during tournament and the just concluded Afcon is making a lot of discussion on how the referees acted during some of the matches. The image is between Senegal and Morocco in the finals.

[Tmoonz]

I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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Referees are supposed to officiate without being biased, and any referee who has a connection with any playing team should not be the one officiating to remove the temptation of favouring one particular team over the other.

In just the concluded At AFCON, the Ghanaian referee who officiated the finals between Morocco and Senegal was said to have taken a bribe from the host nation (Morocco) because of how things were obviously going on the field; it was pretty obvious that he was against Senegal players.

Humans are sentimental in nature and more likely to abuse power when opportunity are given to them, is hard to see a fair justification from a referee not that there are no good ones out there, referees are vulnerable to having their own interest which they might want to protect at all cost, even when there are suspicious observations what other means can you back up your claims of a referee taken bribe? You see when you can't beat a system you are left with no choice than to accept or conform to the system

[wozzek23]

Referees/Empires always need to be fair and neutral but in last few years technology is also assisting, but things are still not working as they are always need too many controversies and problems with mostly are just because of advantage always going to home team.

I am watching sports for years on the field and live as well, too many decisions made things really shocking, but officials always stay with referees and because of this my mind always believe many times that they have results before start which allow them to strictly favour their officials on field, recently few big events have some things which are surely now not debateable because it's against the rules for management who are organizing, but this matter is never been going to settle because people in control always want to have advantage.

[Joeboy]

I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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Referees are supposed to officiate without being biased, and any referee who has a connection with any playing team should not be the one officiating to remove the temptation of favouring one particular team over the other.

In just the concluded At AFCON, the Ghanaian referee who officiated the finals between Morocco and Senegal was said to have taken a bribe from the host nation (Morocco) because of how things were obviously going on the field; it was pretty obvious that he was against Senegal players.

Thank you making reference to the AFCON....In reference to the what the OP asked, the just concluded AFCON like you said is a solid example of partial officiating from the Referee....It would seem true that there was a bribe involved, coz it is the only thing that can explain his biased officiating...Even the match between ehm Morrocco and Nigeria, the officiating from the Ref, I think his name was Daniel was clearly poor. He was filled with extreme favouritism. He blew when he wasn't supposed to, it all just got me pissed off....I think there should be proper screening and investigation of all these Referees before they are allowed into any game, I think that will help to an extent...

[FirmWars]

‎I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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The advantage of the refs is that they can favour any team they chose to but that's not something that happens always because they would also protect their jobs knowing that when they continue to make mistakes in executing their duties without biased, they will be changed and to avoid that, they don't make things obvious always but in some sports, when any viewer pay close attention you will see some match where the ref was really so unfair to one team which it could be a team that he probably was not in support of or he placed a bet on the game, just my thoughts sometimes.

[Abdulzuruku01]

I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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Referees are supposed to officiate without being biased, and any referee who has a connection with any playing team should not be the one officiating to remove the temptation of favouring one particular team over the other.

In just the concluded At AFCON, the Ghanaian referee who officiated the finals between Morocco and Senegal was said to have taken a bribe from the host nation (Morocco) because of how things were obviously going on the field; it was pretty obvious that he was against Senegal players.

Yes this is very true. It's obvious that the Ghanaian referee who officiated the final between Morocco and Senegal was bribed because we saw how he was biased to favour Morocco, which this what led to problems between the players and caused a serious fight between Senegalese and Moroccans.

this is always the result when a referee tries to be biased towards one side. A referee supposed to be a neutral person that will maintain the flow and fairness in the match. Even in European leagues like La Liga this happens, Real Madrid is one of the teams that often gets favorable decisions in that league.

[JunaidAzizi]

Yeah, it can still happen with technology like VAR, and it's not cheating. We know referees are humans, they are not robots. They have hidden biases that can affect the results of the game. They might not even know they are giving a big or close call to a team, and that's because of their psychology. That's not intentional. If they can do it with intention, then, yeah, it's a big mistake and unfair to a team.

[Bluedrem]

Yes, of course it happens many times. Many times it is seen that referees take a biased position in matches. Decisions that are taken as negative for one team are taken as positive for the other team. Especially in football, I have seen some decisions that confused me. For example, if a situation arises where a star player is slightly pushed, the player who pushed is shown a card or a foul is shown, but many times it is seen that even if another unknown player is directly fouled, the referees do not consider it as a foul. Also, there are some matches in history in which referees have been directly biased.

[lombok]

I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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Referees are supposed to officiate without being biased, and any referee who has a connection with any playing team should not be the one officiating to remove the temptation of favouring one particular team over the other.

In just the concluded At AFCON, the Ghanaian referee who officiated the finals between Morocco and Senegal was said to have taken a bribe from the host nation (Morocco) because of how things were obviously going on the field; it was pretty obvious that he was against Senegal players.

Yes this is very true. It's obvious that the Ghanaian referee who officiated the final between Morocco and Senegal was bribed because we saw how he was biased to favour Morocco, which this what led to problems between the players and caused a serious fight between Senegalese and Moroccans.

this is always the result when a referee tries to be biased towards one side. A referee supposed to be a neutral person that will maintain the flow and fairness in the match. Even in European leagues like La Liga this happens, Real Madrid is one of the teams that often gets favorable decisions in that league.

On the field partisanship contradicts the nature of competition that is supposed to be pure and when we watch the manipulation of rules without the consent of the opponent we have a real sense of injustice. You watch external intervention being such a precipitant to physical conflict as such as would inevitably have been prevented, had there been upholding of neutrality. The enthusiasm of big teams to do well demonstrates that the purity of sport is under scrutiny, and we are supposed to be sceptical about the nature of every choice.

[Porfirii]

In all the matches I have seen in my whole life there have been several blatant cases of referees favouring one of the teams. I remember especially the match between Spain and South Corea in the World Cup 2002, which gained gained notoriety for being one of the most controversial matches in World Cup history, just after another very controversial match between South Corea and Italy where the Italian press accused the refereeing body of bribes by local billionaires, and several Italian parliamentarians even called for Italy to leave FIFA. Source, only in Spanish.

Fortunately, they are painful but rare cases, and I have a high esteem for the work of referees in general, who I consider professional and generally impartial.

[asriloni]

The referee has always been supposed to be fair in every game. While the fact we have seen so many errors by the referee. It's not even VAR was also helpful enough in increasing accuracy of referee's decision. Another fact is that even the referee association itself could be booked by a club to give advantage to them. It's like what happened with Negreira's case.

That is also the reason why referee can't be 100% fair and some of their decisions are often biased. The best example is that picture, which showed how the same tackle can get different decision. The above was red card, while below was a yellow card. The amount of inconsistency in the refereeing these days are questionable.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

The thing is, referees are humans being just as any of us here with emotions, and we can't deny the fact that for us, when two teams are playing for instance, it's neither our country or favorite club playing against another team, this are two different teams we have no connection with, yet while watching the match, we tend to find ourself supporting one team to win the game.

I believe this is how it is for referees as well and it takes maturity and high level of discipline for a referee to render a clean and biased free officiating of a match..
In the just concluded AFCON, we saw several times the referee officiating a match was clearly biased especially in games involving the host country and another country, I would say that most of the referees that officiated the AFCON were mature and disciplined as their job requires them to be.

[Dunamisx]

  ‎I have thought about this from top to bottom and I still come to a biased conclusion based on football and other major league tournaments I have seen live and how a particular team just seems to be spotless and the other one is the scapegoat, maybe due to less star players or because they are not as big or popular as the former.
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I wan to I believe that this is not possible, because this are trained professionals and they wouldn't want to pervert justice knowing that everyone around the world is watching live, while the VR is also there to proof on any judgement made during a play, the referee also would not want to lose they reputation and job by doing all these,it happens that a small team can beat a big one, while anyone is liable to get a fowl play caught by the referee and be penalized for it.

[Zigabel]

‎I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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It may not be spoken much about but the truth remains that this can happen, the refree is human and not some mechanical structure built without emotions and bias, even according to your statement, the organisers of the game does understand it can happen and do not dispute it but frown t n obvious bias, do the training is mostly to cancel out this obvious bias irrespective of the possible human interference that can always happen. That is why the VAR has to come in to substitute for some of these obvious human errors.

[Fortify]

 
‎I have thought about this from top to bottom and I still come to a biased conclusion based on football and other major league tournaments I have seen live and how a particular team just seems to be spotless and the other one is the scapegoat, maybe due to less star players or because they are not as big or popular as the former.
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‎Refereeing as an officiate duty is supposed to be objective even with the initiative of VAR/relay technology to make it more efficient and accurate as possible, but we can't rule out the human psychology and systemic factors that can create a perceived advantage.
‎It is strictly forbidden for a referee to consciously favor any team as it could mean the end of the career of such a referee found wanting, still, a well documented scientific researched phenomenon, doesn't rule out the subconscious bias which can interfere in a referee's decision and create the perceived advantage I am talking about.
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‎I wanted to know if you have ever seen it the same way that indeed, referee officials have a fair advantage in any game or tournament which of course always favor their favorite team to win or you have a better opinion on the matter?
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This seems more like a bias in your own mind rather than anything actually happening with match officiating. Of course there will be the occasional situation where game rules are applied poorly or maybe there is favoritism going on by the officials, but this stands out. If it happens too often then patterns are identified and the officials will usually be reprimanded by the governing body, because it tarnishes the whole sport if it is allowed to continue. These officials are not working in a vacuum with nobody else watching, if they keep making mistakes or casting unfair decisions it becomes obvious. Most games have very clear rules now and there isn't much room for interpretation, which just means poor decisions or missed vantage points left to explain repeated failures.

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I don’t think most referees want to favour a team especially knowing their career is on the line but fair advantage doesn’t always mean cheating sometimes it’s just perception mixed w/ pressure, psychology & system limitations. Big teams often play more aggressively & confidently & refs might unconsciously interpret their actions differently so yeah I wouldn’t say it always happens but I do believe perceived referee advantage is real in certain situations. It’s not black and white. The game is still evolving  & hopefully officiating improves along w/ the technology but as fans, it’s normal to question what we see especially when the pattern keeps repeating.