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Referees in the media (week 5)
‘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. “What are you doing, ref?” Tony Soprano in the HBO series The Soprano’s (season one, episode 1) I’ve been watching. “We’ve got some reports that people are buying referee outfits in districts too … so I wouldn’t be surprised to see some penalty flags get thrown at some members of Congress’ offices.” Jamie Henn, communications director for 350.org, during a protest against the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline where activists where dressed as referees to ‘blow a whistle’. “Their preparation…
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Reactions from referees who’ll go to EC 2012
Uefa has selected twelve referees for the European Championship 2012 in Ukraine and Poland. You can find the Uefa list with twelve referees and the fourth officials here. I’ve searched the internet for reactions from each appointed referee, which you can find below. European referee boss Pierluigi Collina on Uefa.com: “The 12 are all referees from the elite group, so they are the top referees in Europe. They have all refereed UEFA Champions League matches during the past two seasons. What they can guarantee are two main elements – quality and experience. And only one referee, Howard Webb, was at UEFA EURO 2008. So there has been significant turnover.” Cüneyt…
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Referees in the media (week 41)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published each Monday on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. Referees deserve it once to get some extra attention in the spotlights. States the Dutch FA (KNVB) because of the week of the referee in the Netherlands. “I play a bit with the referee.” Admits Bosnian player Miralem Pjanic before the match against France after accusations from French defender Adil Rami that Pjanic is a cheat. “There now seems to be two types of officials in the game, those who want to be the centre of attention and those who prefer to stay anonymous.”…
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Referees in the media (week 35)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published each Monday on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. I was convinced the offence was just inside (the penalty area). By Danny Makkelie, who admits his fault by giving a penalty instead of a free kick just outside the penalty area. “We all like to be as anonymous as possible.” Canadian referee Carol Anne Chenard is happy that she was not in the newspapers because of her performances. “I will be proud and thinking how fantastic it is to be here.” Says Björn Kuipers before the European Supercup between Barcelona and Porto last…
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Referees in the media (week 30)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published each Monday on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “Each company’s respective technology will be scrutinised across a broad range of criteria, in both daylight and floodlit conditions” by Fifa’s spokesman in the Guardian about the fact that Fifa is going to test nine systems for goal-line technology. “Fidel and I both saw clearly the goal they took away from us” By Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, who was watching football with Fidel Castro and saw the referee disallow a goal. Would a red card for denying obvious goalscoring oppurtunity be honest if a…
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Referees in the media (week 29)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published each Monday on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “With hard work, determination and commitment I’m sure the OFC referees will be just as good, if not better, than the top confederations.” By Japanese FIFA fitness instructor Toshio Utsumi, who has to prepare the Oceanian referees O’Leary, Kumar and Namo for the u20 World Cup in Colombia, on the website of OceaniaFootball.com. “I don’t know if it was because I’m a female too, and they’re used to being refereed by men. Or maybe because I was younger than them.” By rugby referee Sarah…
