VeritasVincit wrote:
It does look like a long hard road to the top.
Does it help if you have a father already high up the list? I suspect you know who I am referring to.
I had a work colleage who did local refereeing, but just that. When i asked him how someone we both knew got onto the Division 1 [as it was then] list when still young, he simply said, "He knows people".
It's why I finally broke away. Far too much who you know, too much snivelling at referees association meetings, nods and winks and buying drinks. You only have to look at today's standard of match officials to realise it's a closed circle. No accountability, and no incentive for improvement.
There are several examples of below standard refereeing this season, but none more so than in the match Cardiff v Chelsea when Warnock was seething at Craig Pawson. That was one of the worst I'd seen, yet not a peep from the PGMOL, he just carries on into his next appointment. The League Managers Association and the PFA need a joint approach on this, and I don't know what is holding them up, telling the PGMOL to sort their shit out and quick, or they will canvass the Premier League to go abroad for match officials.
Something drastic needs to happen to shake these people up.