Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 1 May 2015

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YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discuss incidents from lst weekend’s games

PAUL GARDNER : Concussion dangers still not fully accepted

MICHAEL OLIVER still tip for the top with right coaching

KEITH HACKETT on being a ref in youth soccer

KEITH HACKETT : Where referees need to raise their awareness – and how

PAUL REJER discusses DOGSO and playing advantage

FIFA : Officials undergo intensive preparations ahead of Women’s World Cup finals

RANDY VOGT : The skin cancer dilemma for refs

Players and referees must communicate

OFC Champions League Final 2015 : appointments

CONCACAF Champions League Final, 2^nd leg: appointments. 1^st leg score : 1-1 aet.

GREECE : Ex-FIFA referee and current MP speaks out on football regulations

INDIA : Referees’ workshops conducted with the PGMOL

JAPAN : Referees’ exchange programme with Australia

SOUTH AFRICA : Goalkeeper fined R50,000 (£2,750) for referee social media rant

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 24 April 2015

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YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discusses incidents from last weekend

KEITH HACKETT : Illegal challenges with hands and arms

THE FA CUP FINAL appointments

A referee’s guide to brandishing a card

PAUL REJER : Continues with last week’s Offside – Interfering with an Opponent II

LIVERPOOL top of the table for respecting referees

CHELSEA the worst at respecting referees

UEFA : Officials for U17 finals Bulgaria, 6^th to 22^nd May

2^nd UEFA Youth League Final : Monday April 13^th. Colovray Stadium, Lyon : Shakhtar Donetsk v Chelsea (2-3)

HAWK-EYE : Chosen by FIFA for Women’s World Cup finals in Canada

Girl Power rules as cup final is officiated by all-female quartet

RANDY VOGT : How refs make the whistle work for them

Parents swearing at ref are putting children off sport

SWITZERLAND : Frog invasion causes match to be abandoned

NEW ZEALAND : Kiwi referees handed FIFA World Cup roles

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 17 April 2015

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This weekend’s FA Cup SEMI-FINALS appointments

YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discuss incidents from last TWO weekend games

YATR visit Cork in May with Hackett & Halsey

KEITH HACKETT : Referees’ Association in crisis

PAUL REJER : Offside – Interfering with an Opponent

GRAHAM POLL : Dangerous precedent set by UEFA in ordering final 18 seconds to be replayed

CARLOS TEVEZ blasts indirect free kick from 6yds into roof of net. Referee awards a goal

FIFA : World’s best FUTSAL referees

UEFA : Youth League provides invaluable experience for players and referees

MALAWI : Bernadetter becomes first Malawian at Women’s World Cup finals

NEW ZEALAND : Pete O’Leary retires

NORTHERN IRELAND : Michelle off to Women’s World Cup finals in Canada

SOUTH AFRICA : Sanctions on match officials – ‘suspensions and fines’

TURKEY : Top referees become full-time

USA : Player who killed referee with a punch sued for $51m

WALES :Officials for Welsh FA cup final

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 20 March 2015

Posted on 23 March 201523 March 2015 by sambayley

YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discuss officiating on The Football League and last weekend’s game

HOWARD WEBB will select officials Premier League matches

KEITH HACKETT : Good news from the PGMOL

YATR Question Time : Guests Sam Allardyce and Guillem Balague

MARK HALSEY : Players and managers should stop hounding officials and set an example

How to surround the referee : a comprehensive guide

PAUL REJER : Discusses DOGSO in two MLS games last weekend

GERALD SINSTADT : Trial by television will mean ref injustice for men in the middle

PAUL GARDNER : Why are goalkeepers allowed to get away with this?

Referee’s widow shows RED CARD after amateur soccer player sentenced to 8-15 years in death of referee

Playing dead is not the best way to get out of a red card

AR uses the spray (video)

CHILE : Referee attacked in football brawl

CHINA : Worst PK ever awarded?

GERMANY : Referee needed treatment after player collision

ITALY : Female official bites back in row with player

LEBANON : Referee quits after being chased by manager and players

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 6 March 2015

Posted on 10 March 201510 March 2015 by sambayley

YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discusses last weekend’s game

HOWARD WEBB defends Premier League referees as criticism grows

HENRY WINTER : Don’t blame referees, blame The FA and FIFA for refusing to help them

KEITH HACKETT : PGMOL overstepped the mark

Some positive news about referees

IFAB : 129^th AGM in Belfast, Saturday 28^th February 2015

IFAB takes steps to change ‘triple punishment’

GREG DYKE keen to keep video technology on IFAB agenda

JEROME VALCKE questions video technology proposals

PAUL GARDNER : The IAFB nearly get one right, UEFA gets it all wrong

MLS : Excellent offside examples and discussion at PRO training camp

Where do we draw the line on persistent fouling?

AUSTRALIA : Full-time refs are inevitable

CYPRUS : Bomb blast outside referee’s home

FRANCE : Ref gets forcibly shoved to the floor

GREECE : Greeks want Hugh Dallas to make refereeing return

SCOTLAND : Appointments for League Cup Final, Celtic v Dundee Utd at Hampden Park on Sunday 15^th March, 3pm

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 20 Feb 2015

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CAPITAL ONE CUP FINAL appointments : Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium, Sunday 1^st March, kick-off 4pm

JOHNSTONE’S PAINT TROPHY FINAL appointments : Bristol City v Walsall at Wembley Stadium, Sunday 22^ndMarch, kick-off 3.30pm

KEITH HACKETT : Finds it impossible to understand how Ivanovic escaped punishment

PETER MIKKELSEN : Best wishes to Peter

OFFSIDE article referring to a goal in the PNE v ManUtd FA cuptie

ROY HODGSON defends Wayne Rooney’s dive

SAM ALLARDYCE at YATR.COM – Thursday 26^th February at Riley’s Sports Bar, London

UEFA : Role models, diplomats and ambassadors

UEFA : Women referees raising the bar

PIERLUIGI COLLINA gatecrashes Turkish 5-a-side game in brilliant MasterCard advert

MLS : Identifies two areas for officials to review

MLS : First PRO training camp of 2015 a great success

MLS : General manager, Peter Walton, discusses 2015

AUSTRALIA : Current crop of referees are performing ‘exceptionally’

BOLIVIA : Ridiculous theatrical dive fails to con the referee

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND : League of Ireland reject vanishing spray – further research needed

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 13 Feb 2015

Posted on 16 February 201516 February 2015 by sambayley

YATR.COM discusses last weekend’s games

YATR.COM hosts an evening with Big Sam, Thursday 26^th February, at Rileys Sports Bar, 80 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4TE

KEITH HACKETT : Body Language – a way to improve your performance

PIERLUIGI COLLINA : Sound advice on what it takes to become a top referee

UEFA : Helping referees read matches

UEFA : The importance of referee education

MLS : New initiatives ahead of start of 2015 season on Friday March 6^th.

BELGIUM : Referee accused of bias was a case of mistaken identity

BERMUDA : Referee quits over racist abuse

KENYA : Elite referees set for Physical Endurance Test

NIGERIA : Referees deserve commendation

SCOTLAND : The use of ‘Sportscene’ to the referees’ advantage

VENEZUELA : Juan Soto injured in kidnapping

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 6 Feb 2015

Posted on 10 February 201510 February 2015 by sambayley

129^th IFAB AGM : The agenda has been confirmed for the annual discussion/changes/amendments to the Laws of the Game. The AGM is set to take place at the Culloden Hotel in Craigavad, near Belfast, on Saturday 28^th February 2015

YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discusses last weekend’s games

YATR.COM hosts an evening with Big Sam, Thursday 26^th February, at Rileys Sports Bar, 80 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4TE

MICK DENNIS : No life of Riley for referees

KEITH HACKETT : Recent visit to California

Clattenburg, Dean and Canadine deliver good news for the PGMOL

YATR booster for Nigerian referees

AFC Asian Cup FINAL (Australia v South Korea, 2-1 aet) and 3^rd/4^th place play-off final (Iraq v UAE, 2-3) appointments

AFCON : Tunisia and Equatorial Guinea fined after their quarter-final tie after which the Mauritian referee was sent home with a 6-month ban and dropped from elite panel.

Video of the controversial penalty kick

UEFA : Leading women and men referees in Athens for annual winter course

LA LIGA : Player throws his boot at an AR and only receives a yellow card. Referee suspended.

Seven-match ban for Portsmouth striker

Footballer banned for 5 years after shoving referee

Goal Decision System saves Everton and us from argument

HOLLAND : Red card in record 25 secs is rescinded

SCOTLAND : Vanishing spray to be used for the first time

SPAIN : AR lost grip on flag and hits player on back of head

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 23 Jan 2015

Posted on 26 January 201526 January 2015 by sambayley

YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discuss recent games on the Premier League.

YOU-ARE-THE-REF Question Time – Central London, Thursday, 26^th February

Top PL referees earn five times more than those on FL

Are Premier League referees biased towards the big clubs?

KEITH HACKETT : Good team work, and how it can improve refereeing

MARK HALSEY : Put an end to shirt sanctions

ROB HARRIS : New slant on the north-south divide

PIERLUIGI COLLINA backs move towards ‘white-card’ and sinbins

IFFHS : World’s best woman referee 2014 : Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)

Spare the rod and you will spoil the players

The scourge of diving is not the referees’ problem alone

CYPRUS : Bomb attack at home of referee’s mother

FRANCE : Leonardo, banned one year for pushing referee, is suing the FFF for almost €9m

GERMANY : Referees train in Mallorca – and attend seminars

HOLLAND : Ref’s outstretched arm signal breaks player’s nose!

ITALY : AR on his backside flags offside. But should the attacker have been declared offside?

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 16 Jan 2015

Posted on 16 January 201516 January 2015 by sambayley

YOU-ARE-THE-REF.COM discuss recent games/incidents

MIKE RILEY : My referees are better than ever

Premier League bookings table

KEITH HACKETT : Stats, and looking beyond them

Are referees the real problem?

HOWARD WEBB : Discusses head-butts

Cutting out diving is just what the doctor ordered

Getting hand ball decisions right is no easy matter

What could football learn from hockey?

IFFHS World’s best referee 2014

AFC Referee of the year 2014 : Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) and other awards

CAF Referee of the year 2014 : Bakary Gassama (Ghana)

ELVIS PRESLEY would have been 80 years old last week (8^th January) on the same day as Shirley Bassey was 78. TREVOR SIMPSON, ex-FL referee, and a ‘King’ historian is interviewed about his refereeing career and his books on music and Elvis

SHE KICKS : Subscribe 12 months and get a free 2015 calendar

HOLLAND : KNVB want video referee

NORTHERN IRELAND : Promotions and exchange visits

USA : Referee takes a call during a game – surely it won’t happen in football

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