Padfoot
The Persecuted One
Padfoot said: ↑
What about a referee who had absolutely no interest in progressing past Level 5?
Are they going to refuse people promotion between 7-5 if they decline to take the test?
Massive backward step imho, purely designed to further push the FA's ridiculous agenda of over promoting young referee's purely because it looks good in the media to have lots of 17/18 yr old "senior" referees.
Yet more FA led discrimination against mature experienced referees.
why would you have no interest in not going past 5 surely the aim is to referee at the highest level you possibly can do we say this at work sorry don't want this promotion iam happy cleaning the floors sorry don't get it
Because not everybody has a desire to become the FA's bitch which is what happens once you move into 4 and above.
Everybody referee's for their own reasons......some have a ruthless streak of ambition and will clamber all over their colleagues to progress as far as possible....some do it to push themselves as hard and as far as they can.....some simply do it because they don't play any more but want to stay within that footballing climate.
And yes, you can say at work that you don't wish to be promoted......however, refereeing isn't work...it is a hobby and should be enjoyed as such. No referee should ever feel under pressure to achieve promotion and if a colleague doesn't wish to seek promotion then that is their prerogative.