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VIDEOS & ARTICLES — Friday 10.01.2014

Premier League appointments : Saturday 11th to Monday 13th January 2014 http://www.premierleague.com/content/premierleague/en-gb/referees/appointments.html?paramSearchContext=MATCH_WEEK&paramMatchWeek=21 Football League appointments : Tuesday 7th to Tuesday 14th January 2014 http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/Appointments/0,,10794~3606821,00.html Scottish League appointments : Friday 10th to Sunday 12th January 2014 http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/RefereeAppointments/SPFL/26.%20SPFL%20Appointments%20Friday%2010th%20-%20Sunday%2012th%20January%202014.pdf HOWARD WEBB : …

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By Mal Davies Posted on 10 January 2014 Posted in Mal Davies No Comments

VIDEOS & ARTICLES — Friday 03.01.2014

The FA Cup with Budweiser, Round 3 : Saturday 4th to Tuesday 7th January 2014 http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/More/match-officials Scottish League appointments : Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th January 2014 http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/RefereeAppointments/SPFL/25.%20SPFL%20Appointments%20Saturday%204th%20-%20Sunday%205th%20January%202014.pdf SCOTLAND : Paul Robertson joins FIFA Referees’ List http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=1986&newsCategoryID=2&newsID=12976 UEFA Referees Categories …

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By Mal Davies Posted on 4 January 2014 Posted in Mal Davies No Comments

Players’ mistakes can cost games so why always blame the referee?

Brendan Rogers has progressed well since his painfully short term as Reading Manager and is now manager of Liverpool of course. I was disappointed however to hear his comments on the Liverpool game against ManchesterCity. I agree with him that …

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By Dick Sawdon Smith Posted on 3 January 2014 Posted in From the middle No Comments

Did Lloris need to scramble to save goal from drop ball?

The League Cup seems to be well down the pecking order when it comes to clubs’ priorities and for television companies these days. In its present metamorphosis as the Capital One Cup, for most viewers it only warrants a late …

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By Dick Sawdon Smith Posted on 30 December 2013 Posted in From the middle No Comments

Fifty years of instant replay torture

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the anniversary of the founding of the Football Association and with it the Rules of Association Football, which happened one hundred and fifty years ago. There is another anniversary of an event …

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By Dick Sawdon Smith Posted on 29 December 2013 Posted in From the middle No Comments

Can Platini introduce the sin bin into football?

For many years, Michel Platini, the renowned French ex-footballer, was the right-hand man of Fifa President Sepp Blatter. In fact many regarded him as the ‘power behind the throne’. Certainly, he seemed to be the one that Blatter turned to …

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By Dick Sawdon Smith Posted on 28 December 2013 Posted in From the middle No Comments

VIDEOS & ARTICLES — Friday 27.12.2013

Premier League appointments : Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th December 2013 http://www.premierleague.com/content/premierleague/en-gb/referees/appointments.html?paramSearchContext=MATCH_WEEK&paramMatchWeek=19 Football League appointments : Boxing Day to 1st January 2014 http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/Appointments/0,,10794~3583986,00.html Scottish League appointments : Saturday 28th December to Thursday 2nd January 2014 http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/RefereeAppointments/SPFL/23.%20SPFL%20Appointments%20Saturday%2028th%20-%20Monday%2030th%20December%202013.pdf http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/RefereeAppointments/SPFL/24.%20SPFL%20Appointments%20Wednesday%201st%20-%20Thursday%202nd%20January%202014.pdf FIFA World Cup …

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By Mal Davies Posted on 26 December 2013 Posted in Mal Davies No Comments

Videos & Articles — Fri 20th Dec 2013

Here are current Videos & Articles and some which I have collected over the past month. Likewise, some more collected will be sent out after Christmas. Again, please feel free to FORWARD again to all colleagues/friends/RA members I am grateful to those from …

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By Mal Davies Posted on 19 December 2013 Posted in Mal Davies No Comments

A book that changed the world

One hundred and fifty years ago this week, 8th December 1863, a meeting of ex public schoolboys, representing a dozen London and suburban football clubs, took place in a pub, the Freemasons Arms in Great-queen Street, London. They met to …

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By Dick Sawdon Smith Posted on 5 December 2013 Posted in From the middle No Comments

Is football seen as the cheating game?

Reading Prison closed its doors to wrongdoers for the last time last Friday, after 170 years. It was made famous of course, by Oscar Wilde and his Ballad of Reading Gaol. In its later years it became a young offenders …

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By Dick Sawdon Smith Posted on 3 December 2013 Posted in From the middle No Comments