Prosecutors are currently investigating payments from Barcelona to a company owned by a former Spanish referee. The payments apparently totaled nearly $1.5 million over a three-year span. Reports have surfaced that the Catalan club made payments to a company run by José María Enríquez Negreira from 2016 to 2018. Negreira was previously the vice president […]

Lee Mason has not been selected as a video assistant referee for this weekend's Premier League fixtures. Mason has been under pressure since he failed to correctly check for offside during Brentford's tying goal against Arsenal on Saturday. Checking potential offside in the buildup for goals is one of the key job attributes of a […]

Referees were all over the headlines in the Premier League this past weekend due to major and costly VAR mistakes. Three major misses had a pivotal say over the final score of games with significant importance. As a result, Premier League referee chief Howard Webb called a meeting for Tuesday. The meeting addresses what happened […]

For the first time in the history of the men's World Cup, a referee team will be an entirely female crew. The trio will be on the field for the group stage matchup between Costa Rica and Germany on Thursday. Led by Stephanie Frappart, the three officials also include Brazil's Neuza Back and Mexican Karen […]

Major League Soccer, or MLS, commissioner Don Garber wants to make some interesting rule changes to the sport, including the addition of a time-wasting rule. The 65-year-old American recently spoke with The Times about a wide range of issues. That includes the aforementioned time wasting, as well as microphones on players and referee explanations for […]

Not long ago, World Soccer Talk brought up five potential rule changes to soccer. By no means are these proposed by FIFA or any domestic league. In fact, those leagues look fairly set in stone. However, every now and then, rumors start to stir up over how the governing bodies could modify the rule book. […]

With their typical class, Chelsea players and staff asserted their belief, following their 1-1 agg defeat to Barcelona, that UEFA conspired against them to prevent an all-English final in the Champions League. Players, such as Didier Drogba, displayed their sentiment by all but physically assaulting the referee as he left the pitch. Manager Guus Hiddink […]