by KeysToReferee | Aug 4, 2020 | Blogs
A club footballer has been banned for a year for abusing a referee in a match in Manawatū. Central Football announced on Tuesday a player had been suspended for “over 12 months” for verbal and physical threatening behaviour towards a match official. The player was...
by KeysToReferee | Aug 3, 2020 | Blogs
Written by Soccer America In the first part of this series we discussed old school refereeing namely “refereeing by the book” and the transformation into “man management” in modern day refereeing. (Since Jaap Uilenberg used the phrase ‘man management’ when I was first...
by KeysToReferee | Aug 3, 2020 | Blogs
Players who deliberately cough at opponents or referees can be shown RED or YELLOW CARDS under new FA guidelines issued amid the coronavirus pandemic The instructions to referees will come in immediately and will be applied at ALL levels of the game The FA said...
by KeysToReferee | Jul 27, 2020 | Blogs
Sports coaching and sports psychology are two distinct disciplines in the field of sports science, yet they are often intertwined. The effective coach is often an effective psychologist. Consider, for example, the testimony of Liverpool players when they discuss...
by Edward Bellion | Jul 10, 2020 | Blogs, Referee Stories
My referee story by Edward Bellion I began refereeing when I was about age 30. Prior to then, I had been a keen amateur and recreational player throughout school and university years in England. In 1968 I went to the USA to take up a research fellowship at the...
by Stuart Carrington | Jun 29, 2020 | Blogs, Carringtons Blog
Home advantage is a strange phenomenon in football. Naively, I used to dismiss it. I assumed that a ball was a ball and goal was a goal. Surely it does not matter where a game is played when it is the same game? Other sports seemed to support this notion. ...
