The Professional Referee Organization (PRO) has a very simple mission statement:
To supply World Class Match Officials for all professional soccer in North America.
I would like to suggest a rewrite for PRO.
To supply the referees, players, fans, and soccer leagues of North America with a competent organization that happens to be concerned with refereeing.
This is obviously needed because no one at the top of PRO seems to understand how to run a competent organization concerned with refereeing soccer matches.
On Sunday, during a match between the New York Red Bulls and Orlando City SC, Peter Walton, a former referee from England and current head of PRO, called into the FOX Sports booth.