Collina: Two Refs On The Pitch A Good Idea

Referee designator Pierluigi Collina has supported UEFA President Michel Platini’s proposal of using more than one referee on the pitch.

Italian football is currently engulfed in a new controversy with officials being found to have made a worrying number of mistakes this season.

Many of the current crop of referees were brought in to replace the old guard who were removed following the Calciopoli crisis in 2006.

With poor refereeing a problem all around Europe, UEFA President Michel Platini has proposed that more than one referee be placed on the pitch to help minimise mistakes.

“I like Platini’s idea of two referees,” Collina stated.

“With two refs we can get a clearer idea of what’s going on, especially with the debatable episodes that happen around the box.”

One person who is certainly not in favour of implementing these changes is Cagliari President Massimo Cellino.

“We can’t put two, three or 10 referees out there – it’s as if we were sending out two goalkeepers,” he blasted.

“But I don’t think that six months is long enough to assess the work of our referee designator.

“Collina inherited a disastrous situation – there are still good refs and lots of new men, but many of the good old officials have quit.

“In my opinion the generation switch hasn’t happened yet and it can’t happen in six months, but it’ll get there.”