RateTheRef

I had a feeling all along that Madley would get back in somehow.
Call me old fashioned but I am disappointed that he has been promoted after his previous misdemeanours and turning his back on English football Togo to Norway. To me it gives out a negative message to all those decent refs who toil hard season by season, being respectful towards their employers and grateful for the position they are in but who get regularly overlooked. The cynic in me also notes that Clattenburg was suspended for a time, came back and the rest is history; even Coote was suspended for a time for reasons which were never made clear and look where he is now. Maybe being something of a rebel is the way to ultimately get on.
I realise all this doesn’t address whether Madley is good enough or not.I have always made it clear that, to me, he is a very overrated and (personal comment edited out! )referee who has been lucky - and even luckier now - to get where he has. That opinion still holds.
Congrats by the way to James Bell about whom I know very little. Sorry for Ben Toner, who I rate very highly, and others such as Backhouse and Borrett who must have been close .