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Safety
Equality
Enjoyment
That's all any referee cares about when he or she is officiating a match. Any reasonable referee does not care who wins the match. The team that scores the most goals will win the match.
The Laws of the Game must be upheld. There's no wiggle room for sympathy. A foul is a foul. Offside is offside. No matter how sympathetic (human nature) a referee may be, watching a team getting treated like cones in a 14-0 loss, the referee must remain impartial (this is the balance between EQUALITY and ENJOYMENT).
If "goals against" is a region tie-breaker, a team could lose a region title (and a more favorable seed in the state play-offs) if a referee were to allow a questionable goal to a team on the wrong end of a lopsided match.
But hey........we're all human.
