The 20 WORST Referee Mistakes In Football History

Here are 20 of the biggest Referee Mistakes in Football.
List is subjective of course :)

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[Football-Nerd]

Little Correction, it of course wasn't called Premier League in the 70s . Sorry for the mess up!

[martenkats]

#13 wasn't a referee mistake in terms of Laws of the Game. Sure, the referee could've stood elsewhere to prevent that from happening. But he had no choice but to award a goal. It's only in (I think) 2021 that the rule of a drop ball if the referee touches the ball got introduced. Before then, a referee touching a ball just meant play on, so a goal via the referee was simply a goal according to the Laws of the Game.

[viwembande]

*I AM SO DISAPPOINTED THAT THE CHESLEA VS BARCELONA GAME IS NOT FEATURED* 😢😢😢

[billwilliams]

So many of these sorts of videos only include highlights from the last 10 years or so; kudos for including so much pre-2010 football history!

[benardolivier]

I remember Arsenal winning a game 2-1 via a goal that was scored via a hole in the net and manager Arsène Wenger deciding to replay the game... just to win 5-0 that time.

Also worst mistake for me was during world cup 1982 semi-final France vs Germany where french player was evacuated half dead after a deliberate aggression from german goalkeeper... and the referee didn't even give a free kick to France (let alone send off the faulty goalkeeper).

[wefinishthisnow]

Nothing will ever top Graham Poll's effort in the Croatia vs Australia match at the 2006 World Cup. It was so bad that it prevented Poll from progressing to officiate the knockout stages and effectively ended his career.

Just some of the highlights:
*Croatia literally played with 12 actual players on the pitch for about 15 minutes of the game after a confused substitution. They took a 4-4-3 formation by the looks of it. For some reason nobody on the field noticed it, but it was noticed at home.
*The ref gave one Croatian player (Simunic) THREE yellow cards! (as shown in this video at no.2)
*There were numerous missed penalties, one a blatant Croatian handball.
*Blatant studs-up crunching tackles went unpunished.
*Just about every moment he called incorrectly.
*Croatian players physically pushing the ref unpunished.
*A second ball went onto the pitch during stoppage time to disrupt Australia's attack, similar to this game.
*Right after that, Australia scored a goal before the ref blew the final whistle, but the ref denied it because he said the game had ended.

Absolute chaos as the game went on, especially the 2nd half. The only reason the match progressed was because the previous controversy was overshadowed by the next one and it was only because Australia could progress through a draw that the match didn't end in fist fights causing it to be abandoned. The refereeing was so bad (almost all in Croatia's favour) that the match would have been replayed had Australia not progressed out of the group.

[UCS]

4:06 That was no mistake of the referee, those were the rules back then. I learned, while playing football at the age of six (in 1964) that the referee (or for example a running dog on the field!) was a "dead object". So this was a goal. whatever the

[MessyMentalHealth]

I was watching the England vs. Argentina match when I was 8 years old…I’ll never forget at school assembly the next day the deputy head gave us all a lecture about cheating ⚽️

[roger_melly]

Great stuff! Some real clangers there 🤣🤣🤣

[WillCamx]

Something I've noticed in the 2024 Euros is the number of corners missed by the referees and linesmen.

[effkay]

I remember the Australian one. The keeper had same colours as her team. Most people watching missed it.

[Дивака-цх]

What about 1994 world cup when Bulgaria should have gotten a penalty because of an handball but the referrea said its not but it was Cleary a handball

[gordonhotchkiss]

IN 1977 It was the old FIRST DIVISION. The PREMIER LEAGUE was created in 1992

[haniffnajman]

I haven't watched this video yet but I'm sure the worst mistake by a ref is not giving the goal for Zidane penalty which cost them the World Cup trophy

[MessyMentalHealth]

The Watford vs. Reading phantom goal is one of the main reasons that VAR is with us today. All due to the very experienced linesmen making a fool of the very inexperienced referee (It was only his second Championship match). As a Watford fan, I echo the crowd…YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING ⚽️⚽️⚽️

[MessyMentalHealth]

The England vs Germany match made me wish we had VAR in those days…the ref managed to piss off the entire English nation

[TheHeBbo]

How about Chelsea - Barcelona 2009 and The Netherlands - Argentina 2022?

[abbastaha]

In 2002 world cup match between South Korea and Italy it wasn't a foul for totti

[FinkeltonJr]

6:44 "And as you can clearly see. The ball was NOT Behind the line."
-Football Nerd 2023 💀

[toasterinafishbowl]

The Netherlands vs argentina last World cup where a player of argentina get 2 yellow cards and no red card, and scored a penalty that made the netherlands lose the game