People agreeing with padfoot and his generic black-and-white-holier-than-thou- arguing? Refereeing truly is in trouble.
There are a few on here who keep running back to "a little girl who kicked a big hard referee" when the discussion has moved on. The same people who haven't experienced an assault. Cool, have your fun. Let's hope you don't end up on the receiving end eh?
Probably the same idiots who don't report such incidents as assault, just let it go. Well she had her red card... Hmmmm the guys who create problems for colleagues through their weakness.
Let's get some perspective and let's go back to the little girl kicking a referee scenario. The big hard grown men on here saying "never abandon". That's fine but let's flip it - It is a 16 year old female referee kicked, what do they do then?
Come back with some black and white argument lads. No need to break from form.
(Edited due to the original being a little harsh!)