Or make it a leagues cup, pit English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish teams against one another. Would increase interest in the contest.

Can just imagine Jack Grealish or Kevin De Bruyne retiring after earning £400k a week for over a decade to become a ref for 1% of that for the love of the game.

Great idea Howard 👍🏻

(I’m well aware that lower tier players are also going to be targeted for the role as well)

Fernandinho and Rodri have been the best at this for years, the thing is I can only see it affecting lower teams because the 2 above mentioned got away with countless times and I can see the other teams in the top 6 doing it too without much impact.