Euro 2024 referees have been hailed by peers and pundits for a string of good displays – aided by a new rule saying only captains can speak to the officials and semi-automatic offside. The fact players are complaining less to avoid a booking “gives the impression the performances have improved. But that’s actually the case,” Bundesliga referee Patrick Ittrich told MagentaTV on Saturday. “There have been fundamentally solid, consistently stable performances so far.” The only big controversies have been whether Lois Openda deliberately handled in Belgium’s opening defeat to Slovakia and a Nether…