Thanks for reading my article - it's always good to hear views on it, but I just wanted to add a bit of background and context to the content.
After every top level game, if you scan social media, you will see the vast majority of comments relate to how poor the referee was and why certain penalties were given against team X and not team Y. The article therefore aimed to achieve two objectives:
- to ask supporters to try watching a passage of play from the perspective of both teams, which will give them a different view point on what they are seeing
- to try and highlight the huge number of offences that referees have to process every few seconds in the game, with the widespread coached cheating we now have at the professional level
If supporters get to appreciate these different view points they should hopefully have a different perspective on the game, which will aid their understanding whilst also providing some empathy with
the referee.
So while concepts such as materiality and advantage are related to the discussion points they aren't really directly relevant to the objectives of the article.