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Premiership boss wants to see referees relegated

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Stoke City boss Tony Pullis has called for promotion and relegation for referees.

Saturday’s defeat at Sunderland almost sent Pullis over the edge as he watched Lee Cattermole twice handle the ball on the goal-line with referee Martin Atkinson waving play on.

Just like in Scotland the English FA operate a secretive marking system that sees referees quietly disappear down the divisions if their performances in the top flight aren’t upto standard- in Scotland this is sometimes known as the Conroy System.

Stoke have been on the wrong end of five very dubious decisions in eleven Premiership games with Pullis desperate to change the way that referees are judged.

The Stoke boss said: “I keep getting told there’s a perception that referees sometimes go with the “power” so I’d like to see a system put in place where every club has a vote on the performance of referees.

“Then, at the end of the season, the three referees that get the poorest marks would go down to the Championship. Then, they will have a responsibility towards the smaller clubs as well as the bigger clubs.

“So if they are on the side of the bigger clubs, the other 14 smaller clubs would have a big say.

“If the rest of us can vote the same as the five or six bigger clubs, it will certainly clear the referees’ minds. I think it would be a great system and it would also give an incentive for younger officials to make progress.

“The system at the moment is too rigid. Why should it be a closed shop? I say this because I don’t just want to sit here and slaughter referees. I want to be constructive.

“We should be six or seven points better off but that’s not our fault, that’s poor decisions.”

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