I was recently doing a referee course where one of the referee training officers was talking about losing control of games due to brawls. And he brought up the battle of stamford bridge where Tottenham drew to Chelsea in 2015 causing Tottenham to lose the tile race, and then he said “ mark clattenburg one of the better english refs in this country lost control of that game”.
And that statement surprised me because i always heard that clattenburg was a bad ref. So i ask what are or were the best english refs if with even have any that is?
Mate I am currently a ref in very bottom of the pyramide and there were only 1-2 games where I was not sworn at either by the players or actual managing staff. Stuff like “you’re a fcking joke”, “you have no clue what you are doing” or “you don’t even deserve to be here”. Cards fly all the time because idiots are everywhere. I cannot say I make no mistakes. But I 100% can say I try to do my best even under constant pressure. Unfortunately there is a really small number of players/coaches that really understand the toughness of ref’s job.
This x1999
Anybody who shits on referees, should also go pass the exam on the LOTG and go see how easy it is to make every single decision factually correct