The general reaction on telling people that I am training to become a qualified referee is; “Why would you want to go and do a thing like that”. So, before you all judge me as some power mad saddo, these are the reasons:
I myself, and I’m not particularly proud of this, in a moment of madness once called the referee “a specoid f**k” (he was wearing glasses). And do you know what? He didn’t even book me. I would have sent me off and will have no hesitation in doing so should something like this happen in a game I referee. I often think about that fella and hope he is still refereeing and not putting up with that sort of nonsense. In the unlikely event that he is reading this account, I am sorry.
If I give good honest decisions, keep up with play and talk to the players as I would be expected to be spoken to myself, I am hoping to avoid such unfortunate incidents. Still, at least I don’t wear glasses.
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- Primarily, it is because my playing days have pretty much come to an end – old injuries and 18 years of being kicked with alarming regularity have led me to take the decision to hang my boots up – before that decision is made for me.
- Believe it or not, referee’s have to be pretty fit and becoming a referee will mean I at least have to retain some sort of fitness level
- Having played and watched football for the best part of two decades, I think I may have a decent enough understanding of the game to be quite good at it
- You get paid
- The slim possibility that this could be the start of something career based and in a few years time I could be rubbing shoulders with footballs elite.
I myself, and I’m not particularly proud of this, in a moment of madness once called the referee “a specoid f**k” (he was wearing glasses). And do you know what? He didn’t even book me. I would have sent me off and will have no hesitation in doing so should something like this happen in a game I referee. I often think about that fella and hope he is still refereeing and not putting up with that sort of nonsense. In the unlikely event that he is reading this account, I am sorry.
If I give good honest decisions, keep up with play and talk to the players as I would be expected to be spoken to myself, I am hoping to avoid such unfortunate incidents. Still, at least I don’t wear glasses.
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