Oops- I was wrong...

...Andy Gray does hate referees- he spent a fairly large part of the Euro final criticizing the referee and his assistants.  However, he was right in almost all of his comments.  The ref made a large number of questionable calls and the game seemed on the verge of spinning out of his control.  The only two times Andy agreed with the ref was first on a play that looked like a hand ball by the Spaniards but wasn't called (good no call), and then when the Germans were called for a foul when they were threatening the Spanish goal- and this time both he and the ref were wrong as there was clearly no foul and a good German chance was whistled down.

I ask again- why don't the authorities insist upon full-time professional referees at this level?  This guy is director of a hospital during the week.  The NFL has the same penny pinching approach and it is crazy.