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Sul Guardian un commento ragionato sulla dura vita degli arbitri di calcio.

Referees have long been the most reviled people in football. From children’s matches, where under-8s re-enact the cheating of the professional game, to the Premier League, where tens of thousands of people gather to sing, to the tune of Blue Moon, “Shit ref / You’re just another shit ref”, to be a match official is to be, in the vernacular of football, “the bastard in the black”. And yet the UK has thousands of them, paid a pittance to get shouted at by hungover parents, or picked apart on social media, or found wanting by TV pundits.

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