Tag: ask the ref
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Ask The Ref – The Top 5 Games I Refereed
I’ve been asked to list the top five matches I felt I refereed and why – no mean feat choosing from 1,245 professional matches during a 22 year career – but here I go. It’s not surprising that four of the five occurred during the mid 1990s. My halcyon years were 1994-96 where my career […]
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Ask The Ref : VAR Moves Into Europa League
Following the advent of VAR in last season’s Champions League and the Premier League rolling out the system this season UEFA decided to adopt it within the Europa League from the knockout stages. UEFA’s Referees’ Committee Chairman, Roberto Rosetti, explained that this was due to the positive impact seen in the Champions League. He went […]
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Ask The Ref : Would It Have Helped Me?
Would it have helped me? Are you kidding? I would have welcomed it with open arms – helping me correct match changing decisions at source. It would have saved me beating myself up at times wondering how I’d missed certain things; misinterpreted situations; or sometimes just real bad luck. Either way I’m sure it could […]
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Ask The Ref : VAR – The Decisions That Caused Debate
From the outset it was always known that decisions judged by the VAR wouldn’t bring universal agreement – it was never there to bring utopia but as a tool to supplement referee’s onfield decisions that would right a clear and obvious error involving a match changing decision. Since August I’ve seen numerous cases of the […]