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Real Madrid CF will this week lay out in full the proposal to completely transform the refereeing system used within Spanish football. The move shows the club’s intent to make the sport as fair, transparent, and truthful as it could ever be.
The new plan firmly centers on the following aspects of reform:
1. Transparency of Operation VAR: Real Madrid suggests the provision of access to dialogue among persons working in the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) room. Through making conversation accessible in this regard, the club believes stakeholders become adequately informed with ease of comprehension at decision-making, thereby avoid uncertainty and earn the confidence of the refereeing.
2. Officiating Error Acceptance: The proposal supports a systematic practice whereby referees, and the officiating fraternity in general, freely accept that mistakes are made when they occur. Error acceptance has been believed to be the essence of reconciliation and ongoing improvement in match refereeing.
This campaign owes to the commotion after something happened in the recent Real Madrid game against RCD Espanyol. Carlos Romero’s brutal tackle against Kylian Mbappé wasn’t sanctioned by a red card, and that has created so much outcry on the part of the club against the state of refereeing.
In reaction to such trends, Real Madrid had conducted a proper review of refereeing models being pursued by the best clubs in Europe. What was learned from the exercise was included in the club’s proposed reforms aimed at putting Spanish football refereeing in line with best practice throughout Europe.
The club is cognizant of the fact that the proposal may be met with reactions from within the football fraternity. Real Madrid believes that there ought to be constructive debate and collective action in a bid to impose drastic changes that would be beneficial to the sport as a whole.
Real Madrid is willing to collaborate with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), LaLiga, and other stakeholders to ensure that the proposed reforms are extensively researched and carried out successfully. The club believes that the reforms will be used to make the refereeing structure more open so that it is more accountable and transparent, and football in Spain is more honest and enjoyable.
