Replacement referees: Why in my opinion they won't be able to handle MLS

This is not 2014 over again

Quite curiously many defenders of MLS and PRO’s positions with regards to the Collective Bargaining Agreement that the PSRA rejected are claiming having replacement referees is unlikely to impact MLS matches too dramatically.

They point to the two weeks in 2014 where replacement referees were placed in charge of MLS matches. They also have pointed to th…