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STEVE SHORE: We must all work with refs!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 November 2021

Steve SHORE
CHELMSFORD CITY CHAIRMAN

I NEED to stop getting frustrated with refs and support them. I appreciate the job is thankless; having to make decisions with no help and manage an area a of 6,000sq metres is not easy and I am sure many feel like quitting after difficult games.
I also need to heed my favourite ref story. A player says, “Ref, you’re s**t.” The response, “If I was any good, I wouldn’t be refereeing you.”
Having suffered what I felt have been some poor decisions this season, I decided ed I had to try to find a solution.on.
Last week I called Richard Kettleborough at the ...

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