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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…
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Referees in the media (week 19)
‘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. “If you had bad luck, the players first needed to remove shit from the field, because the cows were walking there the day before.” Herman Efftink from Dutch town Delden tells about the first years of is long career. He has been honoured by the Dutch FA for being a match official for 50 (!) years. Newspaper Tubantia didn’t mention if he will continue his career after more than 3.500 matches half a century. Als je pech had moesten de…