Tag: Dermot Gallagher

  • Ask The Ref: Q&A Week 3

    Ask The Ref: Q&A Week 3

    Hi, from me, Dermot Gallagher, and welcome to another week’s football, albeit through my blog and with the aid of your questions. With football returning in The Bundesliga last weekend, what better place to start. Although the round of fixtures did not overwork the VAR it certainly reminded one reader of a few incidents in […]

  • Ask The Ref – The 5 Matches I Would Have Loved To Referee

    Ask The Ref – The 5 Matches I Would Have Loved To Referee

    Hello from me, Dermot Gallagher, and welcome to this week’s blog. Let me begin by thanking you for such positive feedback regarding my South African sojourn last week – I am most grateful. This week I’ve been asked to list the top five matches I would have liked to have refereed and why. It’s a […]

  • Ask The Ref – The Number 1 Match I Refereed

    Ask The Ref – The Number 1 Match I Refereed

    Hello again, it’s Dermot Gallagher and I’m about to reveal the number one match I refereed and why. Before that though, I have to say, I’ve been overwhelmed by the feedback from last week’s blog listing matches 2-5. David from Lincoln asks: ‘what could possibly be better than refereeing a World Cup final?‘ And Matt […]

  • Ask The Ref – The Top 5 Games I Refereed

    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 […]