Last night went to watch a team in their final match of the Womens Northen Prem as I work with their manager and they needed to win to stay in that league, another teams secretary/manager who was not playing that night and also came down to watch was next to me.
He started ranting to a guy next to him about the standard of referees in this league, having refereed in this league I started to listen and see what he had to say and the guy next to him started looking at me and laughing, turns out he recognised me from refereeing a few games in this league and said to me what do you think?
I politely explained to this guy that I was a referee and rather than argue with him I just asked him what do you think we need to do to improve expecting a serious answer and he just starts ranting on about how we are all awful and I have to pay you £30-£50 for the privilege and 9/10 of you are all **** and don't know what you doing. I tried to have a serious conversation and keep it polite but in the end I turned round and said its people like you that persuade refs to give up and if you think we're **** do it yourself and walked off.
He started ranting to a guy next to him about the standard of referees in this league, having refereed in this league I started to listen and see what he had to say and the guy next to him started looking at me and laughing, turns out he recognised me from refereeing a few games in this league and said to me what do you think?
I politely explained to this guy that I was a referee and rather than argue with him I just asked him what do you think we need to do to improve expecting a serious answer and he just starts ranting on about how we are all awful and I have to pay you £30-£50 for the privilege and 9/10 of you are all **** and don't know what you doing. I tried to have a serious conversation and keep it polite but in the end I turned round and said its people like you that persuade refs to give up and if you think we're **** do it yourself and walked off.