Guest speaker Oct 2013: Stephen Green – Good Cop –Bad Cop
Stephen who is of course our own Senior Training Officer, is an experienced Level 4 referee …
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Guest speaker Sep 2013: George McCaffery – Communicating through body language
In September we were fortunate to have as our guest speaker, George McCaffery. George is a …
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First Aid For Referees
How what goes around comes around by Dick Sawdon Smith In the days when I refereed …
Was Norwich’s “unsporting” goal wrongly disallowed?
The one footballing incident that people wanted to talk to me about last week was the …
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Goals sometimes slip through the net
Last week I wrote about the goal that shouldn’t have been allowed for Chelsea against Cardiff. …
When does a goalkeeper’s control of the ball end?
There was a very odd goal scored in the Premier League last Saturday and I am …
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When did you last see a contested drop-ball?
A couple of weeks ago I was at Reading FC’s training ground for an academy game, …
Is this the worst job in football?
In 1933, a local referee, Charles Kearse, proposed at a meeting of the Reading Referees Association …
Referee can’t undo physio’s saving interference
When I was on holiday in France last month I caught a snatch of a video …
Playing the advantage not always the best option
The biggest talking point in the Arsenal v Sunderland match earlier this month was not Arsenal’s …
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