Garth Crooks was at Underhill today interviewing manager Paul Fairclough and club captain Lee Harrison for the top drawer BBC 1 Football Focus programme on Saturday starting at 11.30 a.m.

The interviews centred on the seven-month old Barnet initiative of only the captain talking to referees, which has restricted cautions for dissent to two since August.

The subect is in the news this week with the FA launching a grass-roots initiative calling for respect for referees .. plus the reaction to referee Mike Riley of Chelsea and England defender Ashley Cole and some of his team-mates to him receiving a yellow card against Tottenham Hotspur. New England manager Fabio Capello is reportedly going to lecture the international players on their behaviour as a result.

Harrison, who was an apprentice at Charlton Athletic when Crooks played for the club, said that the Barnet initiative had been successful, helped by an unbeaten run of 10 games at the start, and he saw no reason why clubs at all levels of the game from the Premiership downwards should not follow suit

On BBC Radio 5 Live former top referee Graham Poll also commended the Barnet initiative, which has received world-wide coverage and good publicity for the club.

Dennis Signy