Why?
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I can bore you with qualifications, hierarchy and career profession of football referees if you so desire, @ma0sm.
i have invited theo to participate in this thread
Hi @anon67149139 havenât seen you around for a while, thanks for returning. Your comment makes me think that thereâs a lot to this subject. Any way of telling me the interesting bits, no worries if not?
As a player, wouldnât it just piss you off to be brought on with a minute to go? Only there to waste time, tbh. Could easily escape a shower, having to change, etc. Could have been shovelling chicken goujons and lime&soda down ya gob an hour earlier.
This goes against the spirit of this thread
If they only play for two minutes and donât even break a sweat, do you think they bother having a shower, or just put their regular clothes back on straight away?
When you changed your avatar to Manchester United, is that because theyâre the Coldplay of football (or something like that) and youâre on the wind up or are you a genuine fan? I saw it, and wondered, and now have a space where I can ask.
A lot of people get appearance fees. So get paid more for actually getting on the pitch
Watching the game now actually. Blaaaady 8 West Ham
Blaaaady 8 West Ham
Please refrain from comments like this in this thread because I donât know what it means.
U wot?
Oh right this isnât the football thread.
No, no it is not.
Iâll try and be brief. (In English footballâŚ)
You can qualify as a football referee from 14 (might be 16 now tbh). The levels go from 10 to 1 (though a level 10 is âdeclared inactiveâ, 9 is a trainee, and 8 an under-18), before becoming an elite/select group (the people you see in the Premier League and higher).
A âlinesmanâ is a fully qualified referee. You tend to progress up through the levels from your local parks stuff by marks from the clubs each match, plus being assessed by officials from your countyâs football association a handful of times a year. Once you hit level 6/5 (depending on ability, age, brown-nosing) youâll tend to be invited onto the senior leagues in your area as an assistant.
What happens from there is that you tend to be a lino on the league ABOVE the one you referee on, and all being good you can work your way up the ladder from there.
Once you hit level 3 thereâs a league table of officials, and itâs where it really filters into whether you want to be a referee or an assistant (this is really simplifying it). Thereâs no hierarchy, but some people will turn down promotions to âjustâ stay as a lino, and then progress as an elite lino.
At the highest rungs on the ladder, the guys running the line will tend to stick with the same ref as a team of 3. Obviously now the â5th officialsâ (the useless twats on the goal line) and Video Assistants have confused this a little but thats the basics of it.
Heard the name a lot a few years back, people didnât seem to like him
people are silly
Thanks for that, didnât know any of that before