Referees also deserve fair play

Bless us, reader, for we have sinned. Again. On Sunday evening coming home from Salthill, we put in a call to a referees’ assessor.

Referees also deserve fair play

His kind are known as mentors these days. A devil by any other name, says you.

These men, the public are told by managers and in turn believe, are the shadowy ones responsible for the divergence in how match officials have been calling fouls in recent times. Faceless and answerable virtually to nobody, it’s assumed that referees live and die by their ratings.

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