Will McRae

The rules of this league are unambiguous on the subject: the referee’s call is final, and no protest will be entertained. This is not because referees are infallible. It’s because the alternative — twenty-two grown men litigating a throw-in in a parking lot in Telkwa — is worse for everyone involved.

Will turns up, makes the decisions, and absorbs the consequences. He has been wrong exactly as often as every referee in the history of the game: never, in his account, and relentlessly, in yours.

Thank him. He’s the reason this is football and not simply twenty-two people arguing in a field.