True.
Back to suits?!
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Should be down to the individual in my opinion. Unfortunately however, there are those amongst us (thankfully a great minority), who do not seem to have the necessary pride in their appearance.
Last season, I observed a game (on an artificial pitch), where the referee turned up with mud all over his boots and splattered on his socks. After thinking that he had probably arrived directly from a previous fixture, post match I learned that it was a legacy of the previous weekends game !
Not wishing to go any further with it, I made no comment about it.
In my time actively refereeing, there was a shirt and tie requirement, not necessarily a suit, to every fixture once progression had been made beyond the local parks. White laces in boots were still a preferred option for many (though that gives my age away).
As has been stated in other posts, the majority often suffer for criticism levelled at the minority. Smart casual should be perfectly acceptable in all but formal occasions.
Last season, I observed a game (on an artificial pitch), where the referee turned up with mud all over his boots and splattered on his socks. After thinking that he had probably arrived directly from a previous fixture, post match I learned that it was a legacy of the previous weekends game !
Not wishing to go any further with it, I made no comment about it.
In my time actively refereeing, there was a shirt and tie requirement, not necessarily a suit, to every fixture once progression had been made beyond the local parks. White laces in boots were still a preferred option for many (though that gives my age away).
As has been stated in other posts, the majority often suffer for criticism levelled at the minority. Smart casual should be perfectly acceptable in all but formal occasions.
Not when it is a team of three. Whatever people think about the merits of suits versus tracksuits, the last thing anyone wants is one of the team turning up suited and booted and the other two in tracksuits (or vice versa).
I bought a machine washable suit from M&S for that reason, was fed up of taking suits to be dry cleaned because they'd got caked in mud. My local dry cleaner used to ask me why anyone would wear a suit when they knew they'd be walking across muddy places, he had a very valid point.
Then the answer is to not appoint officials who cant follow such a basic standard as a smart tracksuit.
That’s an option (one of at least a few).
That’s a further option
