If you follow me on twitter then you will know this from a few weeks ago. If not a couple of weeks ago I got confirmation from The FA that I am now a level 1 FA Tutor.
This means I can now work on the courses for new referees. It's a big learning curve and I've now worked on four different courses.
The FA take a lot of stick but areas like this do t get covered by the press as positive news is boring. When I passes in 93 it was an over head projector, one video tape and the instructor smoked a pipe.
The day of a two day course i worked one the other week was more than 50% on a football pitch with a 45 minute video session on advantage. This was only reduced as we ha to do a session on report writing which has to be classroom and a bit old school. There is no doubt that today's referees are better prepared than ever before.
As I was told when I passed anyone can learn the laws not everyone can referee!
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This means I can now work on the courses for new referees. It's a big learning curve and I've now worked on four different courses.
The FA take a lot of stick but areas like this do t get covered by the press as positive news is boring. When I passes in 93 it was an over head projector, one video tape and the instructor smoked a pipe.
The day of a two day course i worked one the other week was more than 50% on a football pitch with a 45 minute video session on advantage. This was only reduced as we ha to do a session on report writing which has to be classroom and a bit old school. There is no doubt that today's referees are better prepared than ever before.
As I was told when I passed anyone can learn the laws not everyone can referee!
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