THE WHISTLE BUG NEVER LEAVES YOU
THE Football Association and The Non-League Paper have teamed up to bring you a series of exclusive columns and features. Here, the FA’s Head of Refereeing, Neale Barry, reveals the moment he first took the whistle and the love affair that followed.
T HEY say football captures you from a very young age. I can pin-point the exact moment refereeing entered my life and it’s never left me since.
My father ran a local football team in Scunthorpe and my brother used to turn out for them.
Now and again I would go along and watch to give t...