I can perhaps understand that all teams will pull one or two poor refereeing displays per season and you have to accept that sometimes they get it wrong. However this season, there appears to have been a litany of penalties denied, inappropriate bookings against our players and bottled decisions on second yellow cards for serial foulers. I am sure that other teams may feel similarly aggrieved, perhaps not, but I can only comment on Palace matches as they are the ones I watch consistently.

Is the standard of refereeing getting worse? Is the game getting too fast for refs to keep up now?

Secondly, no English refs at the World Cup appears to be a bit of a damning indictment of the state of refereeing in our country. Do we think the governing body for refs feel the same way as we do about the standard in the Premier League?

Finally, what is the answer to this? Two refs on the pitch like basketball perhaps, one in front of the play and one behind so that there should always be a decent view of an incident or maybe better use of video evidence? Or maybe we just study the best refs in the world and work out why they are not coming from the Premier League? I don't have the answers, happy to listen to what people think.

The fact that no British referee has been selected to officiate at the World cup is a damning inditement of how poor our officials have become. The sooner we use VAR for all games and decisions the sooner the bias and incompetence will be eliminated.

Just to pile on to the above poster this has already been pointed out on multiple occasions in other threads. Its Fifa rules and Clatttenburg dropping England in it. Having said that I don't think much of our current crop anyway.

One more point

It works in Rugby League and doesn't detract from the game, Decisions are fast and the atmosphere is more intense than most football matches, Palace included.

I would prefer a season of VAR, and if it doesn't work revert back to Refs and lines people