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It’s true, who’d be a fourth official?

I’VE just read again Alex Narey’s leader column in last week’s issue of The NLP about lack of respect for fourth officials.
Without naming names, as the majority are bad, I recently watched a Step 4 play-off semi-final where one bench in particular continuously harrassed and abused the fourth official and the referee’s assistant on their side.
It got so bad 10 minutes or so from the end that I had to leave before I got involved.
After a mild reaction to an incident, which he was correct in saying, from the opposition bench, their assistant manager was then subjected ...

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