Welcome back Jim de Rennes
This month Reading RA is pleased to welcome Jim de Rennes as our guest speaker. An old friend of RRA, Jim has a knack of looking at things in a different light and has provided some enjoyable and thought provoking …
Category: News & Events
Lessons from Sir Alex Ferguson
It is unlikely that anyone would suggest Sir Alex Ferguson was a friend to referees. His mind games before matches such as, ‘This game is going to need a firm referee’; meaning he expected the referee to be strict against …
Wait for the Whistle!
One of two talking points raised in December came courtesy of Steve McMahon, who discussed when not to allow a free kick to be taken quickly. The situation arose after the goalkeeper rushed out of the area and fouled an …
Dealing with Misconduct Post Match
As Referees we have all reported misconduct in one form or another. Of course, any two referees will have different levels of tolerance when it comes to dealing with and subsequently reporting misconduct. Thus the question was asked to the …
There’s more technology in refereeing than you might think
Appeared in the Reading Post, 17th December 2014 THERE’S MORE TECHNOLOGY IN REFEREEING THAN YOU MIGHT THINK As all readers will know this is the last newspaper version of the Reading Post. For me this is certainly a sign of …
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Scourge of Diving is not Referees’ Problem Alone
The sore subject of diving has arisen again particularly after Jose Mourinho’s conspiracy theory that referees are waging a campaign against Chelsea players for diving, despite Gary Cahill escaping after a blatant dive against Derby County. The battle against diving …
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Videos & Articles — Fri 26th Dec 2014
YOU-ARE-THE-REF.com discuss last weekend’s Premier League games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1EV1skgLP8 CHRISTMAS DAY 1914 – football was played during a break in the First World War…….. https://you-are-the-ref.com/back-pass-by-mike-pavasovic-christmas/ ……and how the Christmas truce led to a court martial https://uk.news.yahoo.com/christmas-truce-led-court-martial-101311265–sow.html#M3yn9ZA FERGIE TIME …
Videos & Articles — Fri 19th Dec 2014
YOU-ARE-THE-REF.com discuss last weekend’s Premier League games and ‘diving’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jl_wf5LUFo Premier League referees need to be more consistent when it comes to simulation http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2874590/Premier-League-referees-need-consistent-comes-simulation.html? HOWARD WEBB : Discusses simulation/diving on SKY http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/9578521/webb,-carragher-&-neville-discuss-diving? Premier League referees have …
Why should referees suffer insults?
There was a report in national newspapers last year of a young thug attacking a seventies pensioner as he was unloading the boot of his car. The newspapers concentrated on the fact that the pensioner was a former amateur boxer …
Shaka Hislop helps to shape laws of the game
Last week in Belfast there were two important meetings, which might even be called historic in the story of the Laws of the Game. I reported last year that the make up of the International Football Association Board, which calls …
