With the Northern League Division 1 and the NWCFL Premier Division also now taken by Level 4 referees, how are the thirty Level 3 officials each week who last year would have been appointed to these matches now being deployed?
Travelling must be more of a burden for most referees in the North-East and for the clubs further South that will have to pay expenses for more long-distance travel.
A Level 3 referee from, say, Cullercoats, will have Morpeth, South Shields, Dunston and Marske from within Northern League territory. Pickering, Whitby, Scarborough, Kendal and Lancaster would be reasonable on Saturdays, but quite awkward journeys for evening matches. Thereafter the next nearest would be Tadcaster, Pontefract, Ossett, Bamber Bridge, Colne, Clitheroe and Brighouse - all long treks. I hope club treasurers are well prepared.
I am told JCFC that there is one big national pool for all referees at this level so realistically any referee could be appointed anywhere.
In these uncertain times of COVID the finances of these clubs will be stretching thinly
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