John Marsden Writing Topic #489
‘Beaten by the referee.’ (or umpire)**
The only times I can think of that I was beaten by a ‘referee or umpire’ of any kind, is when I was a child and I’d have arguments with my older brother, and my parents would either take his side or declare that I was in the wrong.
**Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
Loveday Writing 