I regularly get paid a match fee of £35 nowadays
I'm jealous. It's £22 down here.
I regularly get paid a match fee of £35 nowadays
Wrong.
He came on here moaning that he wasn’t paid enough or what he felt was enough for doing a tournament.
1. You shouldn’t be refereeing any game for the money. If you are, do everyone a favour and either get motivated to do it for the right reasons or stick your kit on EBay
2. No one is forced to do tournaments....don’t like the fee, don’t do it. Simples.
Shock horror. The forum grump is out in force again being an old moany horrible git.
I started refereeing because I was 14 over a decade and a half ago and I was into my football and it was a nice little earner. Little Saturday morning run about and I'd have £25 in my pocket. Couple of weeks later that was a pair of new trainers or a shopping trip. I wasn't thinking about a refereeing career or a hobby. In fact, I didn't particularly like it during some cold rainy days being abused by a 40 year old coach or parent at 15 years old however it was generally a pretty easy and good earner considering I'd of got £6 or 7 an hour working in a restaurant or retail store. My mates were working full eight hour shifts and on Sunday's I earned more than them doing back to back games on the same pitch at £35 per game. It was purely about the money for me. I did the best job I could possibly do but I didn't do it for the love of refereeing. The OP was just asking a question. Stop being such a bully. If it's not about the money for you then that's great, but don't you dare tell anyone that they should hang up their kit if it's purely about the money. If the person is doing the best job they can do, and giving 100% on a Sunday morning, and doing it for the money, there's nothing wrong with that. They don't have to love refereeing or see it as a hobby and walk around the house with a LOTG book wearing their refereeing attire practicing dishing out red cards in the mirror.
For the OP, you check the fee in advance, and if you are happy with it, you get the job done. I've accepted fees for tournaments before nothing under £60 a day though because it's not worth my time however there have been tournaments where I've been frustrated with the organisation and the amount of time I've had to ref without any breaks or anything and I've been throughly peed off but I just put it down as a hard days work and maybe think to myself "that was a shi*t" day but I'd never even think about suggesting because I've done more refereeing than I expected I should of been paid over the agreed fee. It never has, but if something doesn't sit right with me at the time I'd say something i.e "right I've been refereeing for 6 hours straight now without a pee or drink. I'm taking a break...etc". Never has happened though. Stop trying to work it out per hour, it doesn't make sense. If you are after some extra pocket money, look at the distance, look at the hours listed and look at the fee. The rest is your call. Some tournaments you get to sit under a tent for a few hours skiving eating burgers if there's an overload of referee's, others you are working flat out. It's part and parcel.
Why not look at the glass half full. I know quite a few top level referees who started as a teenager purely because of money. Had their RDO had this sort of logic they would not be around now to do the top tier games.Over the years I have seen many many spotty teenagers reffing for some pocket money, almost without exception they have been abysmal. Scruffy, disinterested and just plain bad. But hey, it’s easy money right?
Actually those parents and coached who abuse referees (and I have dealt with many) do it no matter what. Its a mentality and culture which has little to do with referee performance and a lot to do with if they get decisions their way, correct or not, and if they are winning the game.Ever considered that the reason some young referees suffer ‘abuse’ from parents, players and coaches is because their performance is so poor and it is obvious they don’t care?