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Guy Ramos grabs opponents balls
Guy Ramos, a Roda JC player, grabbed the crotch of his opponent Aron Johansson. The referee missed the situation in the Dutch Eredivisie match, but the camera’s in the stadium caught it (of course) on tape. If you’d have seen it, would you give a red card for that? Watch the video of Guy Ramos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAmukBtfpw Is the video also available in your country? If not: below I’ve added a photo of the situation.
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Robot referee launched by Betfair
Betfair launches a robot referee. “No longer will referee miss key decisions on the pitch”, says a robotics engineer. The video is just published on YouTube, a bit late for April Fools’ Day, but it got me thinking about the future of refereeing. What technology could help football referees? The hawk-eye system, a video referee or what could a Google Glass mean for referees? I’d love to hear from you how you see the future of football refereeing. Share your thoughts, that could lead to a good new article about the possibilities and wishes of referees. Check the video below with the robot referee who recognizes players and can give…
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Video: referees prepare for the 2014 World Cup
Referees of three confederations (UEFA, AFC and OFC) met in Zürich for a seminar prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. “Seminars like this are important to reset our focus”, says Felix Brych. “We are in the middle of the season at home and in the Champions League. You can’t lose the focus on the World Cup, that’s why this seminar is important.” For the German top class referee the exchange of thoughts with peers from other countries and continents is very important. The selected World Cup referees will also watch a lot of video’s and these meetings will help them to get a standard interpretations of the…
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Fair Play hero Hunt rejects penalty
Fair Play hero Aaron Hunt was the talk of the Bundesliga last weekend. He tripped in the opponent’s penalty area, the referee whistles for a foul, but he rejects the penalty. “I told him that I’d actually contrived it slightly. I did look for the contact, but then I noticed that their defender pulled out of the challenge”, Aaron Hunt told on the Bundesliga website. “I fought with my conscience for a moment, but I don’t want to win that way. I must admit I looked up at the clock a lot more often than usual in those final ten minutes.” The Bundesliga YouTube channel also wrote statement about it:…
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Red card for headbutting dugout
Goalscorer gets a red card from the referee for headbutting dugout in football match on Italian amateur level between Ponticelli – Riolo Terme. Result: Ponticelli – Riolo Terme 1-3 SINTESI Competition: Campionato 2°Categoria Girone P 2013-2014 Match date: 09-02-2014 Location: Centro sportivo Bacchilega, Imola. What would you decide in a situation like this? Would you give a red card? Please comment.
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Referee Howard Webb misses penalty kick
The video below shows why Howard Webb is a football referee and not a player. Not well taken penalty kick from the English referee in a Legends match at Oakwell. Watch the penalty kick of referee Howard Webb.
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Yellow card relinguished so ref could only give red
Yellow card relinguished by Argentine referee Carlos Maglio. He gave it to the fourth official so everyone could see it. Maglio already booked eight players at that moment in a friendly between Argentine rivals Estudiantes and Gimnasia. The players were not getting the message, so he wanted to make something clear to them. And indeed, the first card Maglio gave to a player was a red card. “Retiring the yellow was a spur of the moment decision. I had already booked eight players and I didn’t want them to keep on hitting each other,” Maglio told La Red radio. “The fourth official asked me to give it to him so…
