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The website refereedecisions.co.uk is looking for qualified referees who help them review the referees of the Premier League. “This may seem like an unusual appeal but I hope you could hear me out”, says Stuart Higgins, one of the men behind the initiative. “We would really appreciate your help.” Here’s how you could participate in the review of referee decisions: We are appealing for help with a referee review campaign where a team of qualified referees have been reviewing the performance of English Premier League Referees and scoring them on key competences. This campaign was started to see if the claim by many commentators that ‘bad / incorrect decisions all even out in the end’ is in fact true. It is also to establish any trends...
Referees will not benefit from the increasing prize money in European football tournaments. The referee payments remain at the same level as last year. That’s what Uefa confirms to the Dutch Referee Blog. Football clubs earned 7.2 million euro’s just for participating in the group stage of the Champions League. This season, which start this Tuesday, all 32 contenders will get at least 8.6 million euro’s in the 2012/2013 CL season, an amount which can mount up untill 37.4 million. Not even counting the market pool share. The referees match fees will not grow and are still based on the Referee Programme published in 2010 (pdf). This means that international referees will earn the following payments for officiating international matches...
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. As I sat and reflected on it all at the closing ceremony, I thought about how honoured I was to part of such an event and there was a small tear in my eye as they extinguished the Paralympic flame. Ross Haswell has been appointed for the Paralympics final match. He wrote two articles about experiences at the events in London. “Select group match officials are emailed on a Monday every week with the upcoming appointments. Only then can they confirm, or all to often, postpone social arrangements with wives and friends. Yes, referees have social lives, too.”...
Saturday 15th September Norwich City v West Ham United Referee: C Foy Assistants: R Ganfield, H Lennard Fourth Official: J Moss Arsenal v Southampton Referee: K Friend Assistants: C Breakspear, J Flynn Fourth Official: A Taylor Aston Villa v Swansea City Referee: L Mason Assistants: D Bryan, A Holmes Fourth Official: C Pawson Fulham v West Bromwich Albion Referee: R East Assistants: S Long, A Garratt Fourth Official: H Webb Manchester United v Wigan Athletic Referee: M Oliver Assistants: S Ledger, M Scholes Fourth Official: P Dowd Queens Park Rangers v Chelsea Referee: A Marriner Assistants: M Mullarkey, M McDonough Fourth Official: N Swarbrick Stoke City v Manchester City Referee: M Clattenburg Assistants: S Beck, S Child Fourth...
Maltese referee Esther Azzopardi had recently been promoted to Uefa’s Elite Development list. She got the love from refereeing from her father, a former Fifa assistant referee. “I always trust in his advice.” An interview with Esther Azzopardi on the Dutch Referee Blog. Photo courtesy Domenic Aquilina, Malta Football Association Photographer. His website. When and why did you start refereeing? Azzopardi: “I wore the uniform and blew the whistle for the very first time in September 1998. Today, I am 30 years old and I have been refereeing since I was 17. Refereeing has been an integral part of my life as I have devoted my attention and passion to it since the very beginning. My father (Ronald Farrugia, ed.) was a FIFA assistant referee...
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “Women have so much to offer. For some reason, many believe that you have to be a man to be a good referee. This is simply not true.” Esther Azzopardi Farrugia, Maltese referee and recently promoted to Uefa’s Women’s Elite Development list. Just interviewed her for my blog, so more of her soon on this blog. “”They are a deterrent in the penalty area against pushing and pulling, especially from corners or free-kicks.” Pierluigi Collina about extra assistants. Read more about this on Uefa’s website, where the former Italian top referee suggests that extra...
Having completed my reports for this afternoon's game and I sat back in the glow of my slightly reduced sunburn (thanks to you Nivea Factor 30) and considered just how much I'd gotten through in the last 7 days. Sunday saw me open my 10th season on my local Sunday League. Monday I attended the Respect meeting for referees on a local Junior Football League. Also at the meeting was one of the County's RDOs and he not only talked about the progress made by the league in terms of Respect, but also dangled the tantalising carrot of a new Referee Academy based at one of the County's 3 professional clubs. It's a similar programme/setup to the one which used to operate at another of the County's professional clubs but was discontinued a...
Football referees on national top level will all appear in their new outfit the next weeks. Brands made all some new referee kits for the 2012/2013 season. Spanish referees are also wearing Adidas kits, sponsored by Würth. “We are happy with this because the brand is inside the field in every game of the Spanish League no matter what teams are playing”, says a spokesperson from the sponsor. “[Sponsoring referees] is good for a premium brand as we are.” Jose Antonio Teixeira in the new 2012/2013 referee kit from Adidas. Continue reading...
Pretty heavy showers caused a football field with waves of grass in Dutch Eredivisie. Referee Pieter Vink was about to cancel the match between Heracles and Feyenoord, but came back to this decision after the field was ‘repaired’. “It’s fascinating to see”, says an unhappy referee before the match to Dutch national tv (NOS). “It looks like the golf green.” He told the reporter the club is getting the artificial turf specialist in as soon as possible to find a solution. Just in time there was a solution: the scissor. People from the home team made holes with it in the articial turf to release the air out. Then a tractor driving over the pitch and game on! Video is in Dutch, but the images show you enough about Sunday’s troubles in...
Saturday 1st September West Ham United v Fulham Referee: A Taylor Assistants: S Long, M McDonough Fourth Official: L Mason Swansea City v Sunderland Referee: R East Assistants: P Kirkup, A Garratt Fourth Official: A Marriner Tottenham Hotspur v Norwich City Referee: M Halsey Assistants: S Ledger, R Ganfield Fourth Official: T Kettle West Bromwich Albion v Everton Referee: J Moss Assistants: S Child, D England Fourth Official: P Dowd Wigan Athletic v Stoke City Referee: M Atkinson Assistants: S Burt, R West Fourth Official: I Williamson Manchester City v Queens Park Rangers Referee: C Foy Assistants: D C Richards, H Lennard Fourth Official: M Oliver Sunday 2nd September Liverpool v Arsenal Referee: H Webb Assistants: M Mullarkey, D...
A closed season consisting of a holiday on Kos, some sporadic training sessions, a little weight loss and a wedding came to an end with the opening game in my 10th season on the local Sunday League. The game was being played on a field financed by the Football Foundation and it was used to host our local Sunday League Cup semi finals last season. It was flat, smooth and despite the recent wet weather, dry. I'd considered applying sun cream before heading out but couldn't find it. Probably just as well I was wearing my new Umbro Wembley kit with a white collar. I had tried to get an Umbro Respect kit but A&H sold out (after I had placed my order) and offered me an Umbro Diamond kit in place of it. I specifically hadn't ordered a...
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. MBWN6ZY4JZVP “But if they want to have referees in big European competitions we will give priority to those coming from associations who are implementing the system so that there is understanding among the team of five referees.” Michel Platini’s advice (‘not a threat’) to European countries about using extra assistants in national leagues. When I was about 22, they told me I could play again but it was too late – I stayed as a referee!” Doctors gave Slovenian referee the good news that he could play football again after a six-year break, but he just found...
The third referee in ‘Life after refereeing’ is Edward Lennie from Australia. Edward Lennie was named referee of the year in the National Soccer League in Australia for several years. He also got the Medal of the Order of Australia. Edward ‘Eddie’ Lennie, soccer referee from Australia. Provided by referee. What do you do now for a living? “I am the Referee Development manager for referees in Western Australia, I am also an elite assessor and instructor for both AFC and FIFA. I retired in 2004 and took up assessing and instructing immediately first of all with OFC (Australia was still a member then) and later with AFC, when Australia joined in 2005.” How do you look back on your career and what is your best experience? “Best experience...
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