I'd say American football is the best. Sure there are bad calls but there are rules in place to limit those.
the worst thing about soccer is there's too much acting and flopping. watched the game yesterday URU vs Ghana, that Ghana superstar was trying to sell a foul, stayed on the ground crying for a long time and when the strecher came, he got up smiling and started running. WTF!!!
Sorry for the derail, but I'm thinking Tennis is probably the most fairly officiated game. There are only 2 players, but 1 umpire and many line judges. There's also technology replays for challenges. The official to player ratio is better than any other sport and the playing field is smaller too.
so what exactly prevents referees from not blowing a holding call when it is obvious or blowing a 60 yard pass interference call when there wasn't any?
Its gotta be Soccer / Futbol. You have one ref on the field running around trying to monitor the whole game, no instant replay or challenge. That is a recipe for bad referreeing. Also consider that the call that took away the 3rd goal the US scored against Slovenia was never explained. I mean what sort of sport won't even tell you what the call was? I was talking to someone the other day that Soccer is the one sport that every level is referreed the same unfortunately that means that the same problems crop up whether you are playing Y youth league or at the FIFA World Cup.
I think in the English Premier League the refs will actually tell you (the players) what they did, they'll tell you to come and talk to you. Not so much in the La Liga & Serie A.
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In basketball a bad call will change the score by 2 points, maybe 3. But at the end of the game, you are looking at around 200 points total. And in the end, no one can really go crazy about one missed basket when you'll have another opportunity in 20 seconds if you can just defend. Compare that to soccer, where the US got jipped by 1 point. Typical soccer games will total 3-4 points. Scoring comes along hard, so one missed call changes everything. You can't really bounce back from that stuff. It changes the dynamics of the whole game.
