Yea, they no longer wear black, but you can tell that to my bigoted memory of what they use to look like when I was a child. I just can't see a different color and that is not even my grudge. The men in black are by a galactic distance the new show in town. With the likes of Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney reaching into their huge hats of tricks and pure soccer artistry weekly, we, I mean everyone of you out there, could be forgiven for assuming for so long, almost an eternity, that the referees never really mattered, at least not in the "attention contest". Not anymore. In the modern game, they are rapidly becoming the star attraction, though unattractive, but, lethally decisive. Just ask the Birmingham manager Alex McLeish after the Sunday's football game against Villa.

Nowadays, when your precious football team is on the turf enacting the beautiful game, your heart aches in anticipation of the next "big decision" by the referee that could turn a victory into an instant sticky pie. Even when your team is hoist for barbecue, it could quickly become a baking spree, especially if you were Stoke City. Salomon Kalou's two footed challenge on Sorensen for the Mahican's second goal on Sunday, anywhere else on the soccer pitch would have been an instant red card, but the resulting goal stood while the bemused keeper suffered a dislocated shoulder, which may exempt him from a trip to the beautiful South Africa. No Hakuna Matata|

In my parlance, maybe miniature in its cognitive reach compared to the global opinion bank, I am terminally disappointed in this taint that is clouding the game of football. Precisely, I have come to the bitter conclusion that the referees should go the way of the Dinosaurs like T-Rex, extinct! There should be a computer program out there integrated into a Sony or LG video technology by a Whizkid that can render a fair and interactive feel enabled to disable this weekly dose of heart aches. Come on guys, we can it or maybe just carry a placard with the inscription "Football Without Referees"