I suspect that a lack of personal investment might be factoring into your judgement of CL referees.Look pal, watch some fkn CL games where you’ll see ref/VAR effortless near perfection. Rarely controversies.
#furiuouswithyou
Which isn't to say they're not better, just that I don't think there's a golden level of referee where controversy disappears from the game.
If we're knocked out of the Europa due to a penalty given after the ball's absolutely nailed at somebody's arm from 5yds away I don't think many people will be flying the flag for European refereeing standards being much higher than ours.