Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 6 March 2015

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 : 129th AGM in Belfast, Saturday 28th 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 15th March, 3pm

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 20 Feb 2015

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

JOHNSTONE’S PAINT TROPHY FINAL appointments : Bristol City v Walsall at Wembley Stadium, Sunday 22ndMarch, 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 26th 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

YATR.COM discusses last weekend’s games

YATR.COM hosts an evening with Big Sam, Thursday 26th 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 6th.

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

129th 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 28th February 2015

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

YATR.COM hosts an evening with Big Sam, Thursday 26th 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 3rd/4th 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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Lol Cussons Evening

Friday 27 February 2015 (St Clements WMC, South Bank – 8pm

This annual event is approaching and it is hoped that you will all support the Cussons family in this traditional evening as attribute to the late Lol Cussons.

The evening is lined up with live entertainment (usual excellent standard), food, bingo, raffle, etc. Only need to pay for your (cheap) drinks.

Please come along with your partner, friends, etc. and enjoy the evening and support the family. There will also be the annual presentation to the Referee of the Year.

Please come along and support.

Here, have a polo mint

Here, have a polo mint

New Level 9 Referees

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24 New Level 9 Trainee referees have come out of the recent course in York.

They should be registering with the local leagues in order to fulfil Mod 4 and complete the minimum of 6 games; starting this weekend and through Feb/March.

All have been allocated Mentors for this period and beyond.

If you come across a new ref introduce yourself and make him welcome into the refereeing fraternity – and invite them to York RA meetings where they will have the opportunity to meet colleagues in an informal setting.

Many congratulations to Messrs Allam, Atkins, Barker, Boyle, Cates, Dickinson, Dunne, Everstead, Fleming, Foster, Fraser-Kraus, Gibson (2), Greenway, Hope, Marsh, McDaid, Moll, Penny, Raywood, Rix, Scholey, Shepherd and Turner.

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Videos & Articles from Mal Davies – 23 Jan 2015

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

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

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 (8th 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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