Is the opposite route available to men? Or are all the appointments in the Womens CL female? If not, should it not be one list?
Fairness and equality are things to strive for. This appointment, based on the number and profile of the games done, is neither of these.
Football has always been political and 'face-fits' appointments are nothing new.
Not sure I agree with one list. The gulf between the women's and men's game is huge, especially when you compare some of the smaller nations women's league to the bigger nations men's league. It can be as much as going from refereeing Poole Town v Dorchester in one game to Juventus v Barcelona in the next game, no referee should face that huge of a gap, male or female. It is difficult enough for the male referees who referee the smaller nations domestic leagues week in week out to bridge the gap - you'd not take a UK league 2 referee and plonk them on a CL game but that is in effect what you are doing with some of the smaller nation referees.
We have some amazing female referees out there at National level in the women's game but would they be as good in the men's leagues? Some would, some would not as the gap would be too wide for their capabilities. When you look at the worst performers from the last WWC they tended to be the ladies from smaller nations with as yet pretty undeveloped domestic women's leagues & they struggled at times. They would simply crash and burn in the top flight men's game and I don't want to see any referee simply set up for failure.
I think for a woman to be considered for the CL, EL etc in the men's game then they need to be refereeing their domestic topflight mens league every week, on the same score I think any male referee who wants to referee in the women's CL, EL & International tournaments needs to be refereeing their domestic top flight women's league. The whole game is different, generally speaking the women's league is more technical and the men's league more physical. Broadly speaking and not true of every single club/league I know but I am sure anyone who watches both will understand what I mean.
I'd keep 2 lists but the changes I would make to them would not be down to the sex of the referee but one list for the women's leagues and one for the men's leagues and equal opportunities for referees male & female (biologically or otherwise) to be on either or even both lists dependent upon the domestic leagues they primarily referee at and their own abilities.
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