22-03-2022, 11:23 AM
Deebo
Really interesting post.
5Live did talk about the current violence in football being a huge deterrent, apparently a league in London which has a lot of sides made up of Turkish players is so problematic that referees just refuse to officiate half the games (two of them hospitalised last season).
I didn’t realise but you can pass the exams and referee a game when you are only 14, they get to Ref games because there aren’t enough officials to meet the numbers required (although they are kept out of harms way).
One current National league Referee who phoned in said that if the people who criticise referees so vociferously ever tried to take a game, they would know how unbelievably difficult is not to make mistakes and control players who cheat all through the game.
They also said that ex players rarely, if ever, become referees.
Really interesting post.
5Live did talk about the current violence in football being a huge deterrent, apparently a league in London which has a lot of sides made up of Turkish players is so problematic that referees just refuse to officiate half the games (two of them hospitalised last season).
I didn’t realise but you can pass the exams and referee a game when you are only 14, they get to Ref games because there aren’t enough officials to meet the numbers required (although they are kept out of harms way).
One current National league Referee who phoned in said that if the people who criticise referees so vociferously ever tried to take a game, they would know how unbelievably difficult is not to make mistakes and control players who cheat all through the game.
They also said that ex players rarely, if ever, become referees.