Really. It was much, much less a few years ago

When I was growing up watching footie, there was only one that you even knew - the schoolteacher one (whose name I've forgotten).

I went to live in Spain in '94. Couldnt believe how the refs were part of the spectacle there - people had opinions about different refs, knew what they looked like etc. Was completely alien to an English football fan - really weird.

But then over the years, the same has happened here. To the point where some people seem to have more opinions abut refs than players.

Bizarre and rubbish.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, May 1, 22:35:57