After this week's appalling refereeing in the Champions League, Uefa need to take a long, hard look at the way they run football.
Both semi-final second legs were affected by refereeing decisions, one of them mildy so, the other substantially.
And, as one of the organisations that not only makes up the rules but also picks the men to enforce them, Uefa have to take a large slice of the responsibility for those errors.
On Tuesday we had the Darren Fletcher incident. The Scotsman was sent off for a professional foul when in actual fact it was probably one of the most professional tackles you are ever likely to see.
The Manchester United player clearly won the ball but the referee awarded Arsenal a penalty and showed Fletcher the red card. It was, to be blunt, an atrocious bit of refereeing.
The tie itself was over and done with well before that happened but the consequences of the referee's mistake go much deeper - Fletcher is now banned from playing in the final for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
And that is where Uefa come in. Or rather, where they should come in. Their rules state that a decision can only be overturned when the referee has mistakenly sent off the wrong player. There is no obvious mechanism for reversing any other type of refereeing error.
So an innocent player who just did his job has to suffer because the referee was incapable of doing his. Fletcher is now 99.99 per cent likely to miss out on the dream of playing in the Champions League final, and Uefa have merely shrugged their shoulders and said there is nothing they can do.
Nonsense. It's their tournament, their rules.
They could and should make special dispensation in this case to correct what is, after all, a massive injustice brought about by the man they picked to officiate.
To be honest, I am no Fletcher fan. Despite what Sir Alex seems to believe I feel he is often a weak link in the team.
But that doesn't mean he deserves to miss out on playing in a dream final. Absolutely not. A travesty of justice.
Meanwhile, the other semi-final was more like a mugging than a football match. Restricting a team like Barcelona to just a single shot on target in an entire game is a massive achievement and one of which Chelsea should be proud.
But when that one shot turns out to be a goal and it comes in the 92nd minute of the match, you have to wonder if the gods of the game are not just taking the Mickey.
Up until that point, Barcelona had looked extremely pretty but utterly ineffective. They were putting together passing moves that were a pleasure to watch but the end product was lacking, if not non-existent. A sort of more expensive, experienced and refined version of Arsenal. Without Bendtner.
But once again the focus of the match was on the man in the middle. Chelsea had no fewer than four serious penalty appeals turned down by Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo, at least two of which were stone wall spot kicks.
Had any of these been awarded and subsequently converted, the game would have been all but over for Barcelona. It was almost as if they referee was scared of making a game-changing decision.
And once again, Uefa need to take some responsibility for this - after all, they picked the officials.
Big matches need big men who are not afraid to take big decisions. That is what made Collina so well-respected. The Italian, apart from looking like an extra from The Hills Have Eyes, was never afraid to do what needed doing no matter how unpopular it would make him.
And that is the sort of official you want taking charge of crucial games, not some Norwegian numbskull who wouldn't know a penalty if it ran up and bit him on the bottom.
Although I can't go as far as condoning the behaviour of Ballack and Drogba, who both acted like they had caught rabies, I can understand their emotional outbursts. The decisions were truly shocking.
While Tuesday's referee may have cost one player his Champions League dream, Wednesday's ref cost an entire team theirs.
If you had asked me at the beginning of the season who I would have liked to see take part in this year's final, I think Manchester United and Barcelona would probably have been my pick.
I support a team that is currently more likely to win the Eurovision song contest than the Champions League, and that makes me a confirmed neutral. And we neutrals naturally want the best teams to make it all the way through.
Having said that, we want to see them make their way through properly and without the aid of referees who couldn't officiate their way out of a paper bag.
I just hope the twin refereeing debacles this week will bring about the necessary changes for next season.
Video replays are a must, if not during matches, then certainly for reviewing controversial incidents after them. Mistakes do happen and you can never expect match officials to get everything 100 per cent right in every game.
But, at the very least, the clubs should be backed up by an appeals process which allows them to ask for a review if a glaringly obvious mistake - and one that can be corrected - has been made.
Secondly, the selection process for referees needs to be completely overhauled. Forget all this politically correct nonsense of spreading the games around so that officials from different countries all get a crack of the whip.
Ovrebo, a psychologist by trade, has showed little mental prowess in the past. He has a history of bottling big decisions, such as in the Euro 2008 match between Romania and Italy. In fact, he admitted he had made mistakes after that game, and was given no more matches at that tournament.
That, to me at least, suggests he is not up for big matches, so why the devil give him one of the season's most important clashes?
If there are only five or 10 top quality, first class referees in Europe then give the big games to them. It's not important where they are from; only if they are good enough for the job. I don't care if they are from Andorra or Germany as long as they do their job properly.
What I do care about is that the games I watch are not distorted and twisted by men who can't handle the pressure.
And if Uefa have any common sense, they will make this their primary care too.
Steel city summer
There was good and bad news from the Malta Tourism Authority this week.
The good news is that both Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday have confirmed they will be holding training camps in Malta this summer.
The bad news is that 'logistics' - that all-encompassing word that covers just about everything - have dashed plans to get the two teams to play against each other while here.
Obviously it's great for Malta that two reasonably big clubs will be using Malta for summer training. Apart from the obvious financial benefits it will bring to the island, there is also an element of prestige.
For years I have wondered why English teams don't come here pre-season to catch some sun and refine their skills. How many times do you hear about one team or another jetting off to Spain in general, or La Manga in particular?
With United and Wednesday both choosing Malta it should help promote our country as a place for other, possibly even bigger teams, to follow suit.
Having said all that, I can't help feeling a little disappointed that they didn't manage to get the two teams to face up to each other while here. That would have really put Malta on the pre-season football map.
A Sheffield derby is a big event, make no mistake. The people from the city just love the occasions and for many fans, beating their rivals is almost more important than anything else that happens in the season.
There used to be an annual Steel City Cup between the two sides, and the idea of resurrecting it in Malta not only excited me but also all the other Blades and Owls I have spoken to in recent weeks, all of whom said they would try to plan their summer holidays around it.
Obviously it is impossible to quantify a hypothetical situation, especially one which has been dismissed, but I believe a Sheffield derby in Malta would have attracted many, many thousands of visitors from the city. Especially combined with the Isle of MTV concert.
And who knows, if the match had been a success it might have gone on to become an annual event.
When the MTA uses that word 'logistics' I would really like to know which particular issues saw the idea shelved. The only ones I can really think of are security and policing, but I am sure that with a little creativity they could have been worked around.
Malta's sponsorship deal with the Blades has been labelled as groundbreaking. Getting United and Wednesday to play each other over here would have been earth- shattering.
sportscolumnist@timesofmalta.com