Line of duty: how assistant referees cope in the angry world of football

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What’s like to be the target of fan animosity and how do officials feel when they know they have made a mistake?

By Mark Gordon for Nutmeg magazine

We all have off days at work, when things don’t go our way or we make a mistake we can’t fix. Imagine having one of those days in front of hundreds or thousands of people. Think about how it would feel to make a mistake and then go home and watch yourself making that same error again on television.

Whatever your opinion on referees and their assistants, it’s a difficult job. I wanted to find out what it is like to be a match official, so I took a break from shouting at them from the stands and spoke to one. Calum Spence is one of Scotland’s top assistant referees, having worked his way up from officiating children’s matches when he was a teenager, to running the line in a cup final.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/09/line-of-duty-assistant-referees-cope-angry-world-football

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