A culture of fear and violence has engulfed grass-roots football with referees concerned somebody will be killed on the pitch, an theipaper investigation has found 🔎 Big read from samcunningham
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Grass-roots football is propped up by mainly unpaid volunteers who paint a picture of a sport, the most popular in the country, that is out of control and forcing teenagers and referees away from the game. Steve Earl, an official of nearly 30 years, fears young refereeing hopefuls are being driven away from the game. “They’re so short of referees wherever you go they just don’t last,” he says. “You see the way they get treated, you understand. The sad thing is the young ones who come in, none of the young ones I’ve trained or met or spoken to or mentored, none of them stay.”
Another referee had a yellow card slapped out of their hand by a player who warned, “I’ll find where you live.” In another game, a referee was told a player would have “done something about that” if they were not on the football pitch. Dave Bradshaw was brutally assaulted after sending off a player last October. The attacker, Tyler Rasburn, broke four of Bradshaw’s ribs, his nose and collarbone and dislocated his shoulder. Rasburn has been suspended for 10 years.. “I’ve got cameras outside my flat, watching the front door, the back door, everywhere. It’s not good for my mental health.
Cassandra McKoy suffered physical abuse while officiating. “Thirteen years of refereeing I think my worst encounter was last summer, I was physically abused by a player and that player was a youth, an under-16 player and I found it quite daunting,” McKoy said. “That’s the worse I’ve ever encountered – I’ve still got a bruise to show for it.”
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