MATT BADCOCK SAMPLES A TASTE OF WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A LEVEL 2B REFEREE

FFICIAL LINE: National Referee Development Manager Dan Meeson addresses the Level 2B referees
PICTURE: Mike Capps

IT’S a simple comment, but it cuts deep. To set the scene, it’s a July afternoon at Warwick University and I am living out a real-life version of ‘You are the Ref’.
Whistle in hand, cards in pocket, I’m the man in the middle. Play is on-going but something, and I don’t quite know what, is about to happen. Then it does.
A ball comes on from off the pitc...