English football (soccer) referee Howard Webb (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This week the England squad was named for the upcoming European Championships. However there not the only english men going to Poland and Ukraine with a second team being named…..the match officials.
This championship being the first with Extra Assistant Referees we have 6 english match officials going to the finals. Howard Webb, Michael Mullarkey &Peter Kirkup will be Referee & Assistants respectively, with Stephen Child as backup Assistant incase one becomes injured. The extra assistant referees are Martin Atkinson & Mark Clattenburg. Clattenburg is already in for a busy summer with his appointment to the olympics.
Uefa have also appointed four officials who will be dedicated fourth officials and a further four reserve assistant referees.
Full list off officials can be found here
As well as English representation credit should be paid to the Scottish FA for also providing a six man team.
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- UEFA Sets Referee Guidelines For EURO 2012 – ‘Game’s Image, Punishment For Mobbing Refs’ Included (theoriginalwinger.com)
- Six Scots officials for Euro 2012 (bbc.co.uk)
- Premier League referees and linesmen are improving all the time – and that’s official (telegraph.co.uk)
Filed under: Euro2012 Tagged: Assistant referee (association football), Howard Webb, Mark Clattenburg, Martin Atkinson, Peter Kirkup, Poland, referee, Ukraine
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