By doing so he isnt now excluded from lots of the top games if he would be if he was a Man Utd fan for example so it would be a wise move to pick a non league, lower league club as your club if you were heading for a full time career as a referee.
Nowadays with social medial etc it would be much easier for evidence to be found to the contrary so a lad growing up now who is into their football is going to have a digital footprint that makes it undeniable in future who they support. If they then become a top referee, then there is no hiding it like the current crop could have done.
Oliver is the obvious exception in the current crop with his Newcastle links as one who is coming clean.
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Being fans of those lower league teams that the refs all say they support is so shit, they became a ref in the first place so they could be involved in higher level football.
I wish I'd spent my youth becoming a ref rather than following Everton around under the likes of Mike Walker etc thats for sure!
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is that none of the top 20 refs claim to support Man Utd or Liverpool
In fact I don't think any claim to support any big 6 side
Even more surprising considering a large proportion of the refs are from the North West
Found out yesterday that most of Craig Pawson’s family are kopites. Explains a lot given some of his shockers when reffing our games.
You’d think the PL would do background checks on this type of stuff.
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