Tag: hostility

Darren Cann is the most experienced match official in Premier League history – and he has a simple strategy for coping with the verbal abuse that inevitably comes his way at times.

The 55-year-old from Norfolk, who overtook Mike Dean’s record of officiating at 562 top-flight games last month, has refereed and run the line for two decades in front of 50,000-plus crowds – often impassioned by decisions against their