This dropped into my feeds today, UEFA have put together a video talking about goal posts and the safety requirements these should meet. Link to video
How well do you check the structure of the posts when you check the nets before a game?
3 Jul
New Season Shopping
I went through my kit bag the other night and decided to look what I need to order for the new season, to be honest not a lot really. I didn’t really need anything drastically. With the FA blocking the new Umbro kit due to it not meeting FA Regulations, that saved a chunk of change. So all I’ve really needed was some new white topped socks. I’m actually only buying these as the ones from last season had frayed, they were still white and not gray thanks to the sports wash on our washer.
I was looking around on Official Sports to see what else I could justify spending money on and I noticed that the match pads now have room for 7 subs. I was going to have to buy a new pad some point during the season, so thinking back to last seasons FA Cup games I decided to buy a set of these. I also purchased a couple of the small pens to give a go instead of a pencil. Not sure how well these will work out to be honest. Other than that, I was thinking about a new set of boots but to be honest there isn’t anything wrong with the ones I got, there only a few months old.
26 Jun
Mike Riley new GM of PGMOL
“The Board of the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) has appointed Mike Riley as its General Manager Designate. This appointment will take effect from 1 September 2009 with departing General Manager Keith Hackett completing a handover period by January 2010.” (Taken from Refworld)
This means that Mike Riley will cease to Referee on the National List. I was surprised to read on Refworld that Mike has been a Premier League referee for 13 seasons. Always seem’s a quite Referee that doesn’t go looking for trouble, which was probably shown by the Ashley Cole incident last year where it would have been easy to have just sent him off. It will be interesting to see what he brings to this role.
23 Jun
Drop and give me 100!
I picked up with the training again at the weekend with the aim of following the plan over on refworld. My calculations make this week 3 of the General Prep week, so its quite steady. Something else im doing at the same time is the 100 pushup challenge. This isnt a new things and was doing the rounds on the t’internet a while back. The idea is that you follow a training plan over 6 weeks, which requires you to do 5 sets of an increasing number of push ups 3 days a week. The aim is to be able to do 100 in a row.
I thought it adds something a bit different to the training and plus the 6 weeks fits in quite nicely with the time for the start of the season. There is also a 200 sit-up challenge which to be honest I’m also giving a go, but I’m not holding out much hope on that one.
Link to the plans
19 Jun
Planning
Were still in June and the new season is starting to form. We’ve already had the Premier League, Football League & Carling cup fixtures released, and ive been working out which Burton fixtures I will hopefully get to watch.
Ive also had 3 emails informing me of different meetings that I need to attend- Supply League – 2nd August & County Assesor – 11th August. I have also put my name down (well ticked the box to say im interested) for the Instructor Team. I received a call last night explaining everything and Ive been invited along to one of their meetings in August.
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