Coach used to tell us that you can't do anything about the refs, no matter how bad or good they were. Just something you couldn't guarantee. You had to go out there and play mistake free soccer.
I've seen some referees show up 20 minutes into a game and immediately start calling things wrong. What made matters worse was that he was wearing a bad bandana and danced around like the karate kid. Terrible.
Then you have the guys who can't even make a call in plain english. Trying to make a call using the thickest of Russian/Ukraine accent and telling you to shut up.
But then you have pretty good refs like Cameron Azzad (sp?) who even makes mistakes, but still controls the game like he is supposed to.
