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    English football referees officiate matches in English football. The referees officiate matches that range from local football to Premier League matches...
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    football) FIFA World Cup referees FA Cup Final referees Football refereeing in England The Man in Black: History of the Football Referee, Gordon Thomson, Prion...
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    records in England List of English football champions Timeline of English football English football on television Football refereeing in England List of...
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  • professional football referees and assistant referees, appointed by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL). The group was first formed in 2001, when...
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  • Professional Game Match Officials Limited (category Football refereeing in England)
    Limited (PGMOL) is the body responsible for refereeing games in English professional association football. Formerly known as the Professional Game Match...
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    began refereeing in Norfolk, England in 1991. He received several promotions working his way up the football pyramid and then began officiating in the Football...
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    referee a second FA Cup final since Arthur Kingscott in 1901. Taylor was a student at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys. Taylor started refereeing in...
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    Select Group of Referees in 2017. Kavanagh began his refereeing career at the age of 13. In 2012, he was promoted to officiate matches in the National League...
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    promoted to the UEFA Elite Group of Referees in 2018. Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Oliver was introduced to refereeing by his father, Clive, at the age...
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  • The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872. It is controlled by...
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    English former football referee. His county FA is the Nottinghamshire Football Association. He belonged to the Select Group of Referees in England and officiated...
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  • Trevor Kettle (category Football refereeing in England)
    Kettle as Chief Refereeing Officer". Moneycontrol. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2025-05-01. "AIFF's Chief Refereeing Officer Trevor...
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    Salisbury was introduced to refereeing by his father, Graham, and began his refereeing career in 2001 in the local leagues in Preston. His father retired...
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    Cup, Football League Cup and FA Trophy before retiring as a referee in 2022 and as a video assistant referee (VAR) in 2023. Dean began refereeing in 1985...
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  • The England national under-21 football team, also known as England under-21s or England U21(s), is the national under-21 association football team of...
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  • of having refereed both of the major club competition Finals in England. Worrall took up refereeing in 1964, at the age of 19, officiating in the Warrington...
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    Massimo Busacca (category Swiss football referees)
    February 1969) is a Swiss former football referee, who is FIFA Director of Refereeing, overseeing the protection of football’s core values and the continuous...
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    Danny Makkelie (category Dutch football referees)
    professional football referee. Besides refereeing he works as a police inspector in Rotterdam and as a referee coach for the Royal Dutch Football Association...
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    and then referee. Bennett has been a referee since 1984, starting out in his home county of Kent. In 1995, he began refereeing in the Football League,...
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  • This article concerns football records in England. Unless otherwise stated, records are taken from the Football League or Premier League. Where a different...
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    4 April 1987 in Merseyside, Jones began refereeing at age 14, as his uncle had been a referee. He is a member of the Cheshire Football Association and...
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    talented footballer", but loved football and so decided to take up refereeing. He began refereeing in the local leagues in Leicestershire in 2004 at the...
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    Howard Webb (category English football referees)
    respected approach to refereeing from football bodies, pundits, colleagues, players and managers. He announced his retirement in August 2014 to become...
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  • Edgardo Codesal (category Uruguayan football referees)
    Codesal, was a referee in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. As a child he remembered his father refereeing. Edgardo was passionate about football, played in childhood...
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    born in St. Helens, Lancashire, and first started refereeing in 1983. In 1994, he was promoted to the Football League list of assistant referees and progressed...
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    The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League...
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  • Thumbnail for Mike Riley (referee)
    Riley also headed England's refereeing team alongside assistants Philip Sharp and Glenn Turner at the UEFA Euro 2004 finals. Riley refereed the controversial...
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    The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who assists the referee by reviewing decisions using video footage and providing...
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    Björn Kuipers (category Dutch football referees)
    WorldReferee.com Björn Kuipers referee profile at WorldFootball.net Björn Kuipers referee profile at EU-Football.info Björn Kuipers refereeing career...
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    Uriah Rennie (category English football referees)
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in England at the age of six. Rennie began refereeing in 1979 in local leagues, then operated in the Northern Premier League...
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