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Referee Tales: Football without Offside - a German experiment
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Friday, 28 October 2016. Football without Offside - a German experiment. Can you imagine football without offside? Magazine was so inspired by a rant on TV from actor Til Schweiger. About the need to abolish Law 11 that it turned theory into practice. It staged a 60-minute game between two Berlin Oberliga (fifth tier) sides to see if the game would really be as exciting as some people suppose. Players...
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Referee Tales: Penalty! Dissenting with the majority view
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Monday, 17 October 2016. Dissenting with the majority view. Scunthorpe United v Milton Keynes, 15-10-16. On a short enforced break from refereeing, I ended up at Glanford Park, Scunthorpe. In the eleventh minute, Scunthorpe striker Tom Hopper. After the game, United manager Graham Alexander. Told the Scunthorpe Telegraph. Also admitted it should have been a penalty, according to the same paper (though...
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Referee Tales: January 2017
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Letter to IFAB, Part Four - The 35-yard-line. Im including parts four to six of my Letter to the International Football Association Board. How to end blatant encroachment. Like this - use a 35-yard line. FIFA technical director Marco van Basten. Penalty shootout deciders are retained solely on the grounds that theres no better alternative, yet actually testing out another met...
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Referee Tales: August 2016
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Monday, 29 August 2016. Did the ball cross the line? Game 7, 2016-17. One of the main challenges of refereeing games with no linesmen is when you get caught behind the play and the ball is cleared off the goal line. The attacking team cries Goal! The defending team screams, No way! Due to the unfavourable angle, you could legitimately shout, No clue! Not the best body. 160;language for a referee.
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Referee Tales: December 2016
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Monday, 12 December 2016. The creeping melancholy of the mid-winter break. Game 29, 2016-17. Almost clean sheet - players too. The number 10 is a talker too, but he doesnt know the local language - he chivvies his team-mates. Monday, 5 December 2016. Winter tames man, beast and footballer. Game 28, 2016-17. Its one degree centigrade, and the pitch is semi-frozen. Is it playable? Reffing in the rain.
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Referee Tales: Sarcastic Applause really shows it to The Man
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Monday, 21 November 2016. Sarcastic Applause really shows it to The Man. Game 26, 2016-17. The away team's defender knows that he's going to get a yellow card, but he can't help himself. He claps in my general direction. His applause is not genuine. The number 6 is not actually appreciating my gifts as a referee. Despite having long since gone through puberty, he is conveying sarcasm. They nearly alwa...
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Referee Tales: November 2016
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Monday, 28 November 2016. What happens if the ref swears back? Game 27, 2016-17. November seems odd, Tom Waits once sang, and the gravel-voiced troubadour would have had his suspicion confirmed if hed shown up to watch this gravel-pitch game on a still, grey, dying day in the years eleventh month. In the second half the goals dry up, and the spectators (two young boys - the sons of one of the home tea...
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Referee Tales: "Your refereeing's a pile of shit today!"
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Sunday, 18 September 2016. Your refereeing's a pile of shit today! Games 16-18, 2016-17. No, he's a shit ref! Go anywhere, as long as it's far away! Oh, my friend, you can't imagine where I'd like to be right now.) Now, after the game, he curses at me in a non-stop choleric tirade until I've disappeared into my changing room and shut the door. The English countryside - where I'd rather. Ten minutes la...
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Referee Tales: October 2016
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Friday, 28 October 2016. Football without Offside - a German experiment. Can you imagine football without offside? Magazine was so inspired by a rant on TV from actor Til Schweiger. About the need to abolish Law 11 that it turned theory into practice. It staged a 60-minute game between two Berlin Oberliga (fifth tier) sides to see if the game would really be as exciting as some people suppose. Im cycl...
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Referee Tales: The raging of the TWAT with Touchline Tourette's
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Every game tells a story. Dispatches from the amateur leagues of a multi-ethnic city somewhere on Earth. Monday, 14 November 2016. The raging of the TWAT with Touchline Tourette's. Game 25, 2016-17. An Egyptian Goose contests an offside. Decision (picture: Harvey van Diek). No worries, though, because they have an able replacement in the Totally Wacko Arsehole on the Touchline (TWAT). There's always one. Today he's a member of the away team's entourage, and it's apparently his job to loudly conte...Rathe...
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