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Rachel Brown-Finnis: In defence of referees - what officials are getting right

There has been a lot of negative coverage of refereeing recently so maybe it is time to give officials some credit for getting things right.

The general consensus is that refereeing standards are getting worse and people are quick to point out their mistakes but, when you have a week like this one where there are no obvious errors, nobody says how well they have done.

The FA Cup third round is admittedly a little different to a Premier League weekend because some of the ties are less even and so less competitive.

But out of 32 ties, the biggest talking points concerning refereeing decisions were the red card given to Chelsea's John Terry and the penalty awarded to Manchester City in their 5-0 win over West Ham.