off topic- college soccer game

[eg-italy]

Originally Posted by mutantducky

How about reffing this one. Why soccer sticks to one ref on the field is beyond me.

Actually, high level soccer has four officials: a referee, two linesmen and a third assistant who stands at the center of a side line, at least in Europe. I don't know what NCAA soccer does.

The two linesmen are in charge of the offside rule and may call the referee's attention to rough play. Of course, being along the side line (only half of the field), they cannot help very much in this respect.

There has been a test with two referees on the field, but it was wrong from the beginning: each one essentially covered half of the field. Useless. One of the objections was that two referees can't have the same way of judging the plays, go figure.

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