To be fair, the referee is officiating a professional sport where you really need to be able to clearly distinguish between the legs of two people lunging quickly for the same ball with their feet.
Probably sounds silly, but when that’s what 95% of the sport revolves around, you can understand them being picky on a detail like this.
This has been a thing for years. Binface got like, 10K votes when he ran for mayor of London once.
I think people have broadly become tired with the joke now, though. The state of politics has become too depressing to see the humour anymore.