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Its not a modern thing

Posted in Blog, Football, Interesting, Misc, soccer on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »

Ive just been playing with the google news section and searching through the old new archives.    I thought it may be interesting to see what Referee news there was back in 1930.
A piece of news caught my eye.
Jan 4th 1908.
PAWTUCKET. R.I., Jan. 4. — Incensed by a decision of Referee John Nesbit of New York, in [...]

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Collina named FootballAmbasador

Posted in Football, Misc, News, soccer on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »

Pierluigi Collina has been named as a Mastercard Football Amabasador.   In the short piece Collina talks about the pressure on Referee’s.
“The pressure on the referee’s shoulders is very big. For example in the Champions League final you might have done a good job for the whole match, but you know that one mistake could be [...]

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Micro Chip Ball

Posted in FIFA, Football Laws, Interesting, Misc, tagged on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »

The World Club Championship has just finished and during the tournament there was an experiment with the ball.   The ball contained a micro chip that was to help with goal line decisions.  It works with the assistance of a magnetic field generated within the goals and would report back to a Referee if a goal [...]

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Shepshed Off

Posted in Misc, Season 0708 on November 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Unfortunately yesterday afternoon I received a call to say last nights game at Shepshed was off due to a Waterlogged pitch.  So instead I had to force myself out for a run when I got home.  I was quite impressed I made myself get out, and didn’t turn around when I got out the door [...]

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Shepshed Off

Posted in Misc, Season 0708 on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »

Unfortunately yesterday afternoon I received a call to say last nights game at Shepshed was off due to a Waterlogged pitch.  So instead I had to force myself out for a run when I got home.  I was quite impressed I made myself get out, and didn’t turn around when I got out the door [...]

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