Everyone’s happy to agree referees are bad. But no one seems to consider where the good referees are going to come from.

There is no waiting list of great referees lining up to face the week in week out abuse, because it isn’t a desirable job. So it seems to make sense to me to make the job desirable before expecting the good people to arrive.

My mate is on 50 in the Scottish 9th tier, although he hauled 10 goals in 1 game when West Glasgow Glassworld’s keeper’s wife went into labour at half time, someone from his team had to drive him to the hospital, and they had were playing with 10 men before that already.