by Grassroots Referee | Apr 3, 2019 | Assistant Referee, Education, Referees
ARE REFEREES FIT FOR PURPOSE When I became the boss of the Premier League Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) one of my first decisions was to appoint a full-time Sports Scientist Prof Matt Weston carried out detailed research, analysing each referee’s physical...
by Grassroots Referee | Apr 3, 2019 | Assistant Referee, Latest News, Referees
GRASSROOTS REFEREEING WITHOUT ASSISTANTS When teams play their games sometimes spectators, players or management will say that you need assistants, thinking that the lack of assistants is a situation confined to their own league. What isn’t realised is that a lot of...
by Grassroots Referee | Mar 27, 2019 | Assistant Referee
When you talk to some referee’s they will tell you that being an assistant referee, or “lino,” is actually harder than being the referee.You have to learn to assist the referee and not insist in a job where having numerous eyes in multiple directions would be a major...
