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Referees will turn professional next season. The top (premiership) referees will earn around £60k per season. Will this improve performance or just cause referees to come under even more scrutiny and attract further media attention ?.
Personally I don't think money has anything to do with it. I believe there are some referees who are intent on getting media coverage. Good referees get very little publicity, bad referees get their names in the papers every week and are talked about endlessly on TV and radio. You only need to watch the theatrical performances of some referees in televised games to see that they love the attention they get. They appear to take great satisfaction out of booking or sending off the likes of Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira - knowing that they will get considerable media attention as a result. Even they guy that got pushed over by Paulo DiCanio made a big meal of it, staggering half the length of the pitch before finally falling over.
The referees of 10 or 20 years ago did not get hardly any media attention. They got on with the job and were far more respected by both clubs, players and fans.
Personally I don't think money has anything to do with it. I believe there are some referees who are intent on getting media coverage. Good referees get very little publicity, bad referees get their names in the papers every week and are talked about endlessly on TV and radio. You only need to watch the theatrical performances of some referees in televised games to see that they love the attention they get. They appear to take great satisfaction out of booking or sending off the likes of Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira - knowing that they will get considerable media attention as a result. Even they guy that got pushed over by Paulo DiCanio made a big meal of it, staggering half the length of the pitch before finally falling over.
The referees of 10 or 20 years ago did not get hardly any media attention. They got on with the job and were far more respected by both clubs, players and fans.
A referee is a referee. They supervise the game, make sure everythings goes to plan, and makes sure the rules are kept strict. Why referees need all this attension is behond me. Its the players who deserve the hype. They are the ones who scored the goals, who tackled the attacker.
During a game do you watch the ref? No. I don't even realise there is one even there. When I see an article in the paper about a ref, I just pass it by, and get onto the good stuff about the real players of this game, players like Rio Ferdinand or Ryan Giggs for example.
The linesmen also play an almost equal part to the game. Have you ever seen a column in a paper on a linesman? Of course you haven't (well I haven't anyway). They play just as an important part as the ref does, helping the ref, making sure his decisions are good ones, except they don't have the direct power to do things like booking.
Refs get paid as much as my dad does in his top office business. My dad needs skill, he spent a long time getting to were he is now, learning, staying late there almost every night to make the ends meet. Refs run around and must beable to blow a whistle, and tell the time, and for doing that once a week, they earn a pretty good income. Its not on.
True refs? Yeah right.
During a game do you watch the ref? No. I don't even realise there is one even there. When I see an article in the paper about a ref, I just pass it by, and get onto the good stuff about the real players of this game, players like Rio Ferdinand or Ryan Giggs for example.
The linesmen also play an almost equal part to the game. Have you ever seen a column in a paper on a linesman? Of course you haven't (well I haven't anyway). They play just as an important part as the ref does, helping the ref, making sure his decisions are good ones, except they don't have the direct power to do things like booking.
Refs get paid as much as my dad does in his top office business. My dad needs skill, he spent a long time getting to were he is now, learning, staying late there almost every night to make the ends meet. Refs run around and must beable to blow a whistle, and tell the time, and for doing that once a week, they earn a pretty good income. Its not on.
True refs? Yeah right.
Referees will turn professional next season. The top (premiership) referees will earn around £60k per season. Will this improve performance or just cause referees to come under even more scrutiny and attract further media attention ?.
Personally I don't think money has anything to do with it. I believe there are some referees who are intent on getting media coverage. Good referees get very little publicity, bad referees get their names in the papers every week and are talked about endlessly on TV and radio. You only need to watch the theatrical performances of some referees in televised games to see that they love the attention they get. They appear to take great satisfaction out of booking or sending off the likes of Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira - knowing that they will get considerable media attention as a result. Even they guy that got pushed over by Paulo DiCanio made a big meal of it, staggering half the length of the pitch before finally falling over.
The referees of 10 or 20 years ago did not get hardly any media attention. They got on with the job and were far more respected by both clubs, players and fans.
Personally I don't think money has anything to do with it. I believe there are some referees who are intent on getting media coverage. Good referees get very little publicity, bad referees get their names in the papers every week and are talked about endlessly on TV and radio. You only need to watch the theatrical performances of some referees in televised games to see that they love the attention they get. They appear to take great satisfaction out of booking or sending off the likes of Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira - knowing that they will get considerable media attention as a result. Even they guy that got pushed over by Paulo DiCanio made a big meal of it, staggering half the length of the pitch before finally falling over.
The referees of 10 or 20 years ago did not get hardly any media attention. They got on with the job and were far more respected by both clubs, players and fans.