Poll hits out at 'Barwick the betrayer'

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England's No 1 official has quit a year earlier than planned, disillusioned by Brian Barwick's failure to back him when Chelsea players questioned his integrity after the explosive Bonfire Night match at Tottenham. That was the game in which he sent off Chelsea and England captain John Terry.

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Three-card trick: Graham Poll's three cautions to Josip Simunic was a 'fatal wound'

Poll blames the FA's chief executive for not standing up for "the 27,000 men, women and boys who go out to referee every week and who need protection".

From parks football to the Premiership, Poll describes a sport in which respect for officials has broken down to be replaced by bullying, hate mail and paltry fines by the FA.

He felt that his error in showing Croatia's Josip Simunic three yellow cards at last summer's World Cup was "a fatal wound", but he now insists it was the FA's craven response to events at White Hart Lane last November which finally destroyed his credibility.