The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1913-08-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WIRRAL R.ErgEnr. rIASPFCTS.  Beyond a nitiribtuid-riociety the 'referees of the diitrkt have no Atiegiation tir ventilation space. The Amalgamated • Societ, which was adopted- On the 'abolition, premature abolition of the 'old -Referees' Society has proved a rank failure, mid its best course would'be a decent suicide. ,Laet season taken on the *hole saw 'Wirral referees well employed,: and several were honoured by importiiil matches in other districts. For the coming season others have already been selected as referees in the preliminary rounds of the English Cup commencing on September 18th, the second Saturday of the, season. Generally there ' a -decided improvement in the w.iy opPortnnities are given -tit young referees, but the system is still very faulty, and in sad need Of repair. The hearty abandonment of the Wirral Referees' 'Association at the instigation of the Cheshire F.A., who,judging by other Associations, were over-eager to adopt relegations ,:never seriously intended. The idea was to promote organize.tioa where none existed, but where each did exist its operation but creates chaos.' In Wirral each League is now controlling its own refetee list and aPPointments. One league does net -knew who the other ap. Points. Naturally under those circumstances one referee sometimes gets a collection of appointments for one day, and Others get none. Therefore there are matches without referees and referees without matches. Cheshire-oould do much worse than go back to its old idea,., which gave referees an active interest in their local government and enabled them to leave sp. pointments. ie., to a central and- reapon. MN° body. What is now icatora as the Adams case has relied a very difficult point- in the ree fere* world, end it. will certainly make many prominent -officials -consider their position very seriously. The decision is , wrong altorither.-Of that there can be no doubt. • - -Ind Mr.• ileum', make- mistakes which we:reeled- hint net-Axing, further employed? So much is obvious •if members of the Council could identify the mistakes from tbs' itand end the referee coald not  *ake  Isle  distinguish them from a distienos_of.44,u, yards. Personally I am inclined ts back, the referee, and if a number of' half-blind would-be critics are allowed to report sad secure the suspension of any offiCial•there4 is going to be a vast upheaval" in; the re., feree world in a very short • time. Messrs. Sutcliffe and Catton, the past and .present presidents of -.tho-Referees' Union, condemn the action of the F.A. very strongly,And. capital has been made in some quarters from the fact that the league have asked Mr. Adams to withdraw his resignation. That incident has been made too much of, and will fizzle as there is not the least likelihood of the league setting itself up against the, F.A. One thing is sure, and that is that the Football Association' will as a result Of its own decision protiably-bs compelled to. go Into the question of Telexes government and 'revise its obsolete regulations and ideas of same, a job it has Nuked for mahy years.- Carded- to • ifis logical eciriclusicin it spell's this death of' I club 'influence.'