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SUCCESS IN THE MIDDLE IS DOWN TO PREPARATION

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 August 2019

Ed Duckworth has just been promoted to Level 2B. The 23-year-old talks us through his refereeing jour ney…
“WHEN you are stood in the tunnel at 2.55pm on a Saturday, with the ball under your arm – and after all the fitness work in the summer as well as attending the training weekend – there isn’t a better feeling. That’s what you work hard for.
We do a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Whether it’s fitness or reviewing my match footage, it’s to make sure I perform to the best of my ability.
We have to pass a strict fitness test and so we sh...

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