Non-League Paper

NLP says…

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 November 2017

Open your eyes! Is the ref that bad?
What is it that really gets under your skin in football? The striker who refuses to track back? Those perennial divers and sneaky time-wasters? Or maybe it’s the sickening greed in the game; the outrageous levels of money that are poured into the pockets of the rich in the Premier League, while grassroots continues to feed off the scraps at the bottom of the pile?
You probably won’t admit it, but for all the imbalances and for all the injustices, the single biggest villain is the referee. He – or indeed she – remains the enemy to ...

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