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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 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…