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in response to bad behaviour from spectators and players including racial and homophobic abuse.
At one juniors game, Marland said two teenage referees were intimidated and abused by adult men at the end of the match, which left one of them in tears. Chairman Bill Owen said officials were confronted with incidents of bad behaviour every Monday after weekend fixtures, which had led to lengthy suspensions of offenders.
Emeleus agreed that the abuse of referees made it difficult to recruit and was the leading reason referees walked away from the game. “Although this is from over 350 games, any abuse can see referees hang up the whistle,” he said. “Incidents of physical contact are extremely rare and fortunately there’s been none so far this season, but we had a referee threatened recently.”
“I felt unsafe with the level of anger directed at me,” he said. “I have lost sleep and I am left with stress and anxiety. I shouldn’t have to be subjected to the level of abuse I received.”
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