Adding Insult to Injury

This morning, Portuguese futebol daily "Record", published a piece on the report from the porto - Benfica game observer. For those of you that are unfamiliar with game observers, I'll explain. Game observers are "trained professionals"(and I'm using the term very loosely here)that are assigned to each game by the refereeing commission to grade the refereeing crew based on his observations from a privileged position in the stands. The observer will then hand in his report with his findings along with a grade (scale of 0-5).

It turns out that, according to the report, the observer would have given a positive grade to the referee had it not been for the fact that the referee did not call the penalty on Lucho, by Reyes.
I'm not disputing that there wasn't a foul, but the contact wasn't strong enough for Lucho to be impeded of playing. The Argentine, perhaps because he is one of the few on that team with integrity, played on as he felt that the contact hadn't been sufficient to prevent him from playing on.
Also on the report as negatives, were an offside not called on Lisandro and a yellow that should have been showed to Sidnei. As far as the "penalty" that gave porto the tying goal, there is no mention to it as a negative. Instead, the observer mentions on his report that the penalty called by Mr Proenca, happened at a spot on the field, and on an angle that did not permit the observer a better analysis of the supposed infraction.
The observer noted that Mr Proenca was 3-4 meters from the play and was prompt to make the call, which wasn't contested by any other Benfica players but the player who "committed" the foul(Yebda). Taking into consideration these two factors(proximity and prompt call and the lack of a contest from Benfica players) the observer decided to give the referee the benefit of the doubt. The final grade for Mr Proenca - 2.4.

A little bit more on the observer, whose name is José Gonçalves. Mr José Gonçalves came in 23rd place of 29 possible last year as graded by the refereeing commission, who analyzes both the referee's performances and the observer's report based on watching a tape of the game.
This is not the first time Mr Goncalves sees himself at the center of controversy, last year Mr Gonçalves gave Lucilio Baptista a 3.7 grade on a Boavista-Benfica game, which the refereeing commission would later revise to a much more negative 2.3, as a result of a very poor performance by Mr Baptista.

It's a total joke, the refereeing commission, the referees, the men in power are all a bunch of incompetent clowns.
Something needs to be done, I support the introduction of new technologies, but i also think that some of the purity and the unpredictability of the game will be taken away with such introductions.

How about this? Since, naturalizing players seems to be all the rage, why don't we explore the possibility of naturalizing referees? We can search the world for good referees, who are making less than the decent money and give them a work permit.

I think that corruption is not as prevalent as it once was, especially since there is more susceptibility for investigations than ever. However, how do you investigate incompetence, if the investigator, in this case observer, is as incompetent as the person he is evaluating?
There's a severe need for a total make over of the refereeing system in Portugal, starting right at the top.

Oh, don't look now, but Olegario Berenquerenca will be the referee for this weekends match against Sporting. A fan favorite... not.