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Referees in the media (week 45)
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. “Based on the submitted documents, the referee committee shall review the personal qualifications of referees for crimes committed like tax ofences, due to fraud in personal dealings and will aslo look at the current economic situation of the referee.” Translation from a document released by the German FA and published by Die Welt. German referees are being reviewed thoroughly after incidents like the one with Robert Hoyzer a few years back. “Both technical areas were well behaved (although I don’t…
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Referees in the media (week 44)
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. “It is quite beyond me why 90 minutes of conversations aren’t always recorded. Referees’ conversations should be available to fans who pay their wages, if anything, to be aware of what the referees themselves have to put up with. If the language is so bad, someone has to do something about improving it without sanitising the game. A point has been reached and in this generation you have got to do something about it.” That’s what David Davies, the former…
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Referees in the media (week 43)
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. “That decision was incorrect. The contact was minimal and Heskey probably played for the penalty. The referee wasn’t well positioned and it was a harsh decision.” New Australian referee boss Ben Wilson is making firm statements about referee Ben Williams and his assistants. They made three of four big calls wrong. When I was 15 my dad literally dragged me off a pitch after I swore at a ref. Lesson was learnt! Never tackled anyone either. — Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker)…
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Referees in the media (week 42)
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. “In Berlin, there’s luckily everything: big, small, fat, thin, black, white, ugly, pretty. Nevertheless, a midget is still attracting more attention.” Cem Yazirlioglu, with 1m38 the smallest referee in German leagues, who wants to climb up the German referee ranks. “It’s nice with all the countries represented and the different thinking and different attitudes, it’s really interesting. It’s not always easy to get people from all these different backgrounds thinking along the same lines, but Sonia (Denoncourt, jth) does the…
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Referees in the media (week 41)
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. “It is simply sad that the referee has stolen us the victory. My arm was shot from felt 10 cms, should I chop my arm off?” It’s not just the quote from Neven Subotić that’s interesting. It’s the analysis of a penalty given by Pavel Královec on the blog World of Football Refereeing. “I’m not going to judge the referees. That’s up to members of the commision at the stadium. But I think it’s good that referees are explaining their…
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Referees in the media (week 39 and 40)
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. (You missed it last week, because I was busy doing job interviews. Yes, got a new job!) “Offside? That’s when they draw a line on tv, right?” Professor Private Law André Nuytinck at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He’s not a regular football watcher (you won’t believe it if you check André Nuytinck’s Twitter account), but is proud dad of his son Bram Nuytinck, who’s playing for Anderlecht at the moment. “Let’s make an analogy with a player who misses a…
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Referees in the media (week 38)
‘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…
