HOWARD WEBB has lifted the lid on a shocking civil war involving most of the Premier League’s top referees. While the job of the man in the middle is to keep things calm between two sides on the pitch, when refereeing’s two cliques came together things can get feisty. In the red corner was Graham Poll’s ‘Red Wine […]
REFEREE Ekaterina Kostjunina has whistled up a social media frenzy by posting a series of scantily-clad photos on Instagram. The Russian who also describes herself as a “football player and university student” has already attracted nearly 5,000 Instagram followers. And her photos are the type of publicity that perhaps would be a surprise to most officials […]
MARK HALSEY believes top refs are pressured to alter their match verdicts. He claims the FA do nothing about it despite knowing it goes on. And that ref chiefs tell officials to say they have not seen incidents so that retrospective action can then be applied. Ex-Prem referee Halsey said: “It happened to me, I […]