Standard of Refereeing (4 replies)

Interesting article on the BBC about a recent assault on an Irish amateur referee and other stories of abuse and intimidation towards referees at the grass roots level.

[www.bbc.co.uk]

You see a lot of people moaning about the standard of refereeing from the Premier League all the way down to the amateur game; and to me it’s incidents like this that have an obvious detrimental affect to the refereeing at the top level and below.

Who in their right mind would want to be a referee when you rush putting you and sometimes even your family in danger when you make a decision somebody might not agree with? This will obviously make the most promising of potential referees quit early in or not bother getting j to it at all

Some may say it’s part and parcel of the game but it really shouldn’t be, no other sport would accept the sometimes abhorrent behaviour towards its officials.