Non-League Paper

Ref advisors must look to clamp down on cheating

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
24 March 2019

I ATTEND National League g ames and, sadly, I find the standard of refereeing to be generally poor.
But this may be rooted – at least in part – with the instructions they are given from the powers that be, so it may be unfair to blame them.
They allow the players to get away with far too much – things that I would call cheating, but they would call professional. This includes:
● Goalkeepers spending an age tamping down imaginary divots in the surface before placing the ball down for a goal kick.
● Professional fouls committed as far out as the halfway line as s...

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