We believe that a concerted effort to reform football (soccer) refereeing is urgently needed.

A majority of football fans around the world also supports decisive reforms that easily minimize refereeing errors.

Reeve later stated that he made a fool of himself in the film and that most of his time was spent refereeing between Reynolds and Turner.

Most scientific and scholarly journals, and many academic and scholarly books, though not all, are based on some form of peer review or editorial refereeing to qualify texts for publication.

Refereeing errors increasingly mar the game on all its levels country and club, major and minor leagues, globally televised tournaments and matches, and local games. Since such errors have major implications for the outcome of key tournaments which define this most global of sports, their ubiquity and frequency jeopardize the game s very integrity and thus its essential legitimacy.