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LaLiga's refereeing hits low point: Ridiculous red cards, confusing calls and a lack of accountability

After a few days of some truly horrible refereeing decisions in LaLiga, let me start by asking you: did you know that a leading referee like Antonio Mateu Lahoz could easily earn more than €400,000 per season?

What's your view? Chump change or more than your gross in 10 years? Enough remuneration to make refs more accountable than they are right now? Perhaps you believe that when we require our refs (usually between 10 and 20 years older than the elite athletes they have to keep up with) to suffer the spotlight of patrolling the world's favourite sport and to keep the multibillion-pound industry going, they deserve that level of incentive-reward?