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On The Ref Show this week BBC Radio Sheffield's Rob Staton was at Hallam Sports Park for the first day of the Youdan Trophy, he was joined by former PGMOL General Manager Keith Hackett and scorer of the first ever … Continue The post Watch The Ref Show online | 31st July 17 appeared first on You Are The Ref. Continue reading...

In an earlier version of this blog I used to upload any Referee related video to youtube and link back to that. This stopped due to my DVD Recorder packing up. I had forgotten all about the videos until for some reason recently they have been getting a lot of comments and I keep getting emails for them! As they had got a bit lost, I have added them to a playlist and stuck them on the right of the blog. Continue reading...

So as detailed on the About Me… page – I have been retraining to become a Football Official (for the sake of clarity – “American Football” will be referred from hereon in as “Football”. Association Football will be known as “Soccer”). The whole process was extremely easy compared to what I experienced back in 1995 when I went through an intensive 8-10 weeks of classroom sessions to qualify as a soccer referee (under the tutelage of the legend that was Gerald Ashby).[..] http://donningthestripes.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/preamble-to-the-main-event/