Despite the number of incidents and legitimate managerial frustration, the Premier League argues that everything is fine. “Some people are saying, 'Refereeing is not as good as it was in my day’, so many years ago, but they are viewing it through rose-tinted glasses without coming up with any evidence,’’ a Premier League spokesman said. “Standards have been high and have been rising for a number of seasons. There is 99 per cent accuracy on offside decisions. There is 95 per cent accuracy on the major decisions. We are pretty much on a par with last season and we’ve lost Howard Webb, while Lee Probert has been out all season injured.”