Scott Innes: It unsettles me when referees have tattoos or look like they work out at the gym. You’re meant to be either a scrawny, pencil-necked bald man or a heavyset part-time PE teacher from imaginary places like ‘Tring’. David Elleray was born a 55-year-old and stayed that way. That’s the benchmark.

It unsettles me when referees have tattoos or look like they work out at the gym. You’re meant to be either a scrawny, pencil-necked bald man or a heavyset part-time PE teacher from imaginary places like ‘Tring’. David Elleray was born a 55-year-old and stayed that way. That’s the benchmark.