YEP chief football writer Graham Smyth weighs in on the debate surrounding the EFL assistant referee to have incorrectly ruled out three Leeds goals over the past eight weeks
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00:00ultimately in football even when you're most aggrieved and there's been an injustice against
00:11your team you're not likely to get any real satisfaction because these people are not
00:16particularly accountable they're not answerable and and that is a reason for concern and that is
00:22a reason for for anger now and again because you want someone to pay for these errors you want to
00:28know that there's a consequence to these mistakes happening over and over again but as far as our
00:34powers of investigation go we're fairly limited to just putting on a bit of pressure and asking the
00:39questions asking leads you know if they'll take any action i think we also have to keep in mind a
00:43little bit of perspective i don't think that it's likely that someone would have a prop such a
00:49problem with leeds united that they would be intentionally robbing them of goals i think the
00:54other point to make is that he has cost leeds united precisely zero points um in fact if
01:01anything he's a good luck charm because every time he dislikes a goal incorrectly leeds united win the
01:05game and they keep a clean sheet i mean it's incredible it's shocking um it's really really
01:11bad it's really bad officiating and there's there's not a great deal as you can say about that uh i i
01:17don't think there's corruption at play but i i do think that there's competency issues that need to
01:24be addressed and i think farkin made a really good point that whoever is in charge of selecting
01:29officials for games needs to get their head out of their backside now and protect this fella and also
01:39protect leeds united and just protect the game because if there were to be another incident and
01:43if there were to be an incident that went against the opposition you know it went in legion at its
01:48favor that was particularly egregious then there'd be serious questions to be asked as well