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You clearly bloody love it, which is great (I genuinely wish I loved it as much). But surely you can see how clubs/leagues will take advantage of your (and others) goodwill to pay the minimum they can get away with? They would absolutely pay us nothing if enough people accepted this.

Oh absolutely you must enjoy it. But why should they be happy with the money if it's less than minimum wage? We should value our own time. The powers that be think they're doing some refs a favour!

There's a subtle difference between "wonder how many refs they string along for 10 years at this level" and "all refs at this level are being strung along". That said, You're EXACTLY the type of person they're relying on to do this for peanuts. "Yeah give Big Cat £5 for this stellar...

I'm not sure saying "L4 refs should be paid £10 an hour minimum for the time they sacrifice on a Saturday" is quite "I'm motivated by easy money". I doubt there's a person on here that wouldn't earn more doing 8 hours overtime at work (with less pressure and no abuse). So the "motivated by...

As a person that travels for my full-time job, I am ABSOLUTELY paid for my travel time. How could my work send me on a 4hr round trip and expect me to only be paid for my time on site?

Very interesting thread this. This sounds like one of those companies that offers unpaid internships with the faint hope of a job at the end. Some of the figures quoted above for an entire day's works are simply taking the p*ss. Wonder how many refs they string along for 10 years at this level?

The equivalence is the chewing gum!?! At this point you're trolling surely?

So you concede it is unprofessional. Thank you, that's all I needed. For the record I'm not that bothered if you chew tobacco. It's amatur football.

This is a straw man argument. No where did I state a job interview is a football match. In fact, pretend this isn't a refs forum. Forget refereeing. Forget football. Would you chew gum at your dream job interview?

Yes agreed. That's how an analogy works.

Because when you admit you wouldn't, you'll have conceded it's unprofessional.

I'm not sure what your point is.

Shinpads?

Would you go to a job interview chewing gum?

Chewing gum always has and always will look absolutely awful. But golden boy does it so many will copy.

I'm sure Walker would say the same if the penalty denied was in the Liverpool box!! Walker's comment makes me think it's a penalty even more!

Lies! He grazed the cheating Madrid diver with the force of a feather floating to earth. That's how I remember it anyway.

Oliver LOVES a big decision late in a game. He didn't have the angle to give this. If he's on VAR this is 100% being given.

I'd go as far to say you're probably 50/50 for a red card for this in Europe (sadly). A certain Turkish ref (whose name I can't utter) would have shown a red (especially if you were playing against Madrid).

The pulling was clearly after he was pushed away from goal. Why would he pull a Man City player to the 6 yard box?