Oi! That’s the Referee You’re Talking About!
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- Written by James Palmer
The world of football management is one full of potential pitfalls and stumbling blocks. It appears to be a world that pushes it’s incumbent to the very limit with numerous challenges that test a person’s ability to deal with all sorts of, often contradictory, problems. Of all of the paradoxes that a manager deals with the one that seems most prevalent at the moment is the post-match interview. Especially when broached on the subject of the referee.
It’s been said many times already that this could be the most competitive season in the history of the Premier League. No longer are gamblers having to choose between two teams when deciding which title winning hopeful deserves their bet. No, this season is different. Six (or maybe even more) teams can boast genuine ambitions of winning the league, whether they want to admit it or not. 
In the last five years most parts of the world have felt the effect of a recession, the word has been repeated so many times that you could be forgiven for feeling indifferent to it by now. However, football is one industry where financial difficulties have hardly registered, instead another r word has reared it's ugly head- racism.