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Referees in the media (week 42)
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. “In Berlin, there’s luckily everything: big, small, fat, thin, black, white, ugly, pretty. Nevertheless, a midget is still attracting more attention.” Cem Yazirlioglu, with 1m38 the smallest referee in German leagues, who wants to climb up the German referee ranks. “It’s nice with all the countries represented and the different thinking and different attitudes, it’s really interesting. It’s not always easy to get people from all these different backgrounds thinking along the same lines, but Sonia (Denoncourt, jth) does the…
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Referees in the media (week 15 and 16)
‘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. “But as long as managers allow their players to con referees, they should not exhibit the incredible gaul it takes to call them out in public. It’s a hard enough job as it is.” In an analysis by The Score called ‘Refereeing, the impossible job’. ‘Goal-line technology is intended as an aid. The referee’s decision will always be final.’ Alex Horne, General Secretary of The FA in the latest Fifa World Magazine (pdf). ‘It was another fantastic event from a…