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‘99.9 percent of managers are well behaved’
“Personally I’d like to see the use of technology for goal line incidents only”, says Darren Handley, Footall League assistant referee. Second part of the interview, written by Dave Humphreys. Read also the first part. So, thinking about all the initiatives to try and improve refereeing standard, would you be in favour of video technology or the UEFA implemented additional assistants? *Chuckles* “It’s a massive, massive topic; it’s in the media 24-7. It’s a huge, huge area, what’s black is black, what’s white is white and currently as we state. Personally I’d like to see the use of technology for goal line incidents only. The difficultly you have with video…
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‘Refereeing is becoming more and more demanding’
“Refereeing at high level is becoming more and more demanding”, says Darren Handley, Football League assistant referee. Interview written by Dave Humphreys. Darren, can you tell me how you got into refereeing and gone on to achieve your status as a Football League assistant referee? “I started at the age of 14, I played local football for junior teams for my father, he was a referee, I struggled to play to a high level week in week out, he said why don’t you try refereeing? So I signed to do a couple of lines when he was refereeing. Then at the age of 14 I refereed my first ever game…
