Ok, we are somewhat off topic but this is an interesting tangent.
One could argue.......that soccer refs AND soccer coaches at the high school level are less qualified and have less professional development........than do football refs and football coaches.
And that this lower level of qualification and development lends itself to not only more errors on the part of coaches and referees, but to a lower tolerance level of errors on the part of others. Hence the qualification/development end of things.
And this increase in errors and decrease in tolerance is what could explain the phenomenon delta in the Greater Pittsburgh area for coaching misconduct. And elsewhere..
Sounds reasonable....I have a friend who is a football ref. He's been doing it a couple of years now and can't sniff a high school game. Its all middle school, 9th grade and jv. No way he does a 4A high school game yet. High school soccer refs? Is there a multi-year hierarchy to climb? Same thing with coaches.....
Dale, I still disagree with your point. I understand what you are saying....and of course there are plenty of mistakes in football too. But the degree of subjectivity associated with soccer to me just really opens things up.
Holding in football is holding. Now a ref may miss it....but holding is holding. How many times are handballs seen....and waved off? How about offsides? When in the discretion of the referee.....he asks himself if the offsides player influenced play. Subjectivity that doesn't exist in football. If you line up offsides you get penalized....whether you influenced the play or not is irrelevant.
