“…When the international literature is analyzed, it is seen that there are studies on sports organizations and metaphors (Bies, 1996;Melão and Pidd, 2000;Boje, Luhman & Cunliffe, 2003;Cornelissen, 2006;Eruzun, Kınalı and Öğüt, 2017;Cornelissen, Holt and Zundel, 2011;Miller, 2008;Kurtipek and Güngör, 2019). When the national literature is analyzed, although there are many metaphor studies about physical education and sports, (Yetim and Kalfa, 2019;Kurtipek and Sönmezoğlu, 2018;Argan et al, 2018;Hazar, et al 2017;Hızıroğlu and Uslu, 2017;Özbek et al, 2017;Namlı et al, 2016;Yılmaz et al, 2014), no metaphor study on the concept of "referee" has been found. Therefore, it is possible to say that the determination is important about how the referees, who have an effective place in sports organizations, are perceived.…”