This is well worth a listen if you’re at all interested in football
The main things I got were:
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refereeing is more art than science, often more subjective than objective
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they need the VAR referees to be VAR specialists
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the system by which they score referees is ‘interesting’
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I still don’t really know why they do it
The Audio Long Read: The impossible job – inside the world of Premier League referees