Top Scots referee chased through shop by yob who wanted to batter him then had to clean human s**t off his doorstep

One of Scotland’s most high profile referees has been chased through a high street store and found a pile of human excrement at the front door of his family home as part of a toxic backlash to VAR.

SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell has revealed how the current big named whistler has been targeted by vile yobs while calling for managers to turn down the heat on the raging debate over the implementation of the new technology. Maxwell confirmed that an end of season summit will be convened with all top flight clubs to review the first six months of the Clydesdale House set-up after a raft of complaints from managers.

But he insists it’s the officials who are suffering most of all. The Hampden boss said: “The match officials are the first ones who know. They know before anybody else if they have got something wrong and it affects them.

“I hadn’t really spent a huge amount of time with the refs but I spoke to one category 1 referee and I said, ‘How does it work when something goes wrong, how do you deal with it?’

“And he said he just didn’t go out. He said he just stayed in the house or he would go to his work and just come back. He tried to stay away.

“I asked how bad it had been and he said, ‘I got chased through Primark by somebody who wanted to batter me because I had made a decision!’

“Also somebody had defecated on his doorstep after a game. It is embarrassing. It is embarrassing that people think that is acceptable.

“Our match officials are under so much pressure because they are being scrutinised so much that they must feel that.

“So how is that conducive to them going out and performing well on a Saturday?

“It doesn’t make any sense. And football has an obligation to make sure that that is not the case and that we are