BY: Justin Bourne

The player-referee relationship is fraught with difficulties.

And, actually, it’s kind of…awkward. For a number of reasons. One is it helps to be friends, but if it doesn’t come naturally, you at least have to fake it. Everything we saw demonstrated in the Alex Burrows situation, we already knew. Being on the bad side of the ref is a bad idea, because he holds the “luck” in his pocket.


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