Accountability and Sanctions

To erred is human. This includes a referee making split-seconds decisions based on what he viewed and the instant interpretation of the mind and the quick reaction of the hand and whistle. Making mistakes in a match is acceptable in the view of refereeing, mistakes made by referees in the match often make the match more interesting and dramatic. But making mistake that changed the result of the match is unacceptable and thus action taken by rating the performance as poor should be well accepted by the referee concerned.
Often a referee may have a very good performance throughout the match but due to fatigue, carelessness or complacency in the dying minutes, a mistakes that overturned the result erased the good performance prior to it. As professional or acting as a professional, a referee should owned up to his mistake and apologise for his error in his report although it will not change the result of the match. This is the sporting spirit or the character of a gentleman that he possessed. Being egoistic (as some maybe), arrogant is quite often seen among some of the referees. Not accepting or wanting to accept one's error or advise given are the outcome. More often, by not accepting or admitting a minor error or mistake may lead to having to facing a tremendous terror in a match with confrontation, bad yelling, filthy swearing and even aggression from players, officials or even the spectators.
On the role of administrator, assessing the referee's performance is part of development and taking necessary action to check on the continual improvement of the referees and to enhance the overall referees' performance or others. Referees with good performance will definitely be given more matches to handle, the less confident or competent ones be given the less pressured matches and those making unacceptable be put to rest for awhile, placed in the lower division or easier matches to regain his confidence and then later after proper guidance and counseling to be put back into the mainstream.
Accepting one's mistake is accountability and should be opened to sanctions taken by the authority. It takes years to make a good referee but it may take only a second to be a bad one. Of course the authority concern will not kill or take away a referee because of a mistake although it jeopardise the performance of the team and also the bread of the players and coaches. Through the sanction process mentioned above and with the cooperation of the referees, the development process will grow and God's willing the standards of refereeing and Dhivehi football will rise.
Read this:
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/source-u-s-slovenia-ref-gets-poor-rating--fbintl_ro-referee061910.html

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/refs-must-face-the-music-for-bad-calls--fbintl_ro-referees062010.html

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/fifa-drops-referee-after-dropped-call--fbintl_ro-fifaref062110.html