As referees blow full-time, football leagues across England face a deepening shortage of match officials
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Each time I step onto a football pitch – whistle in hand, dressed in black – a statistic rings in my ear like tinnitus: with each passing season in England, around 2,000 referees quit – many of them due to abuse.
As referees blow full-time, football leagues across England face a deepening shortage of match officials
As referees blow full-time, football leagues…
As referees blow full-time, football leagues across England face a deepening shortage of match officials
Each time I step onto a football pitch – whistle in hand, dressed in black – a statistic rings in my ear like tinnitus: with each passing season in England, around 2,000 referees quit – many of them due to abuse.