While on world cup matters: From BBC A World Cup-bound referee has been banned for life for a match-fixing attempt in Saudi Arabia just weeks before he was due to fly to Russia, says the country's football federation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44136512 Great. This is what we can look forward to-or do we see it all the time even in PL?
It's telling that FIFA think we've no one up to standard to go to the finals. As much as we criticise our refs, many that we see in World Cups, Euros and CL competition are frankly scary.