Female Referees

BBC Radio 4 went to Leyland (north of Preston I’m sure she said) in their ‘Today’ current affairs programme at 8am this week. The Lancashire FA are training female referees and this was national news. The FA are looking for more female referees and they might one day referee major matches. The taxi driver was interviewed on the journey back to the station and he didn’t seem to think it was a good idea. Something about ladies not going into mud he said. I don’t see why not, but I wasn’t impressed that it appeared on the radio that one of the ladies couldn’t blow the whistle very well. The pea had stuck maybe.