FA Referee
Refs get Respect!
07/02/09 12:58 Filed in: Social
Sunderland society played hosts for the FA organised respect presentation in January.
Every qualified referee has to attend one of the arranged presentations within the coming months.
Alan Wilkie a former premier league referee and now regional referee development officer took the presentaion in front of a group of 60-70 referees from the Sunderland area.
Alan spoke in length of how the referee respect programme has been working since its introduction at the start of season 2008/09 and outlined the FA’s intentions on how to further improve the problems involving a lack of respect towards the referee from players , managers & supporters.
There was a good points & questions asked from the floor and the debate certainly started to heat up when one of our members suggested that the respect programme should start at the very top of the football tree the Premier league & not grass roots football as it currently is , our premier league stars who earn millions of pounds a year should be setting the example to the rest of football , a point that the majority of the audience agreed with entirely.
The meeting has started with a presentation to our society for our 100 year centenary.
Alan Wilkie presented a plaque on behalf of the FA & Roly Croysdale presented a block and gavel on behalf of the Referees Association.
September Meeting - Guest speaker Nigel Miller
15/10/08 14:34 Filed in: Social
Sunderland Society were delighted to welcome back
experienced football league referee Nigel Miller to
speak at our September meeting.
Nigel stepped in at very short notice due to our scheduled guest speaker Dave Webb having to withdraw due to work commitments.
Nigel has been a Football league referee for the last six year during which time he has officiated in a lot of high profile games including football league playoffs and passionate local derbies.
Nigel first made his name as a Football league then later a Premier league assistant referee , and his role of honour is endless , officiating in Playoff games , Premier league title deciders , Carling Cup semi finals but without doubt the most impressive string in his bow is officiating in the 2003 FA cup final.
A good Sunderland turn out greeted Nigel as he arrived at the Rutland Street RAOB club , where Nigel spoke in great depth about how he got started in Refereeing and how he progressed up the refereeing ladder starting out in Sunday morning football and working his way up through the Wearside & Northern Leagues taking some knocks and setbacks along the way.
Then with use of the societies high tech VCR and projector!! Nigel played a number of clips of his own games , making us aware of a lot of refereeing good practice but surprisingly even more bad practice which was very refreshing to hear a referee admit when he has cocked up and admit to mistakes which we all make on a regular basis.
Nigel ended his presentation with a good question & answer session in which a lot of our younger members had an active part in , if it wasn’t for the hot buffet getting cold I’m sure Nigel would have been more than happy to continue all night.
I’m sure everyone who was in attendance on the night , including 4 new members & a couple of older members who were rejoining our society , enjoyed the full content of the night and with more quality guest speakers programmed for the months to come the future looks bright for our society.
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Nigel stepped in at very short notice due to our scheduled guest speaker Dave Webb having to withdraw due to work commitments.
Nigel has been a Football league referee for the last six year during which time he has officiated in a lot of high profile games including football league playoffs and passionate local derbies.
Nigel first made his name as a Football league then later a Premier league assistant referee , and his role of honour is endless , officiating in Playoff games , Premier league title deciders , Carling Cup semi finals but without doubt the most impressive string in his bow is officiating in the 2003 FA cup final.
A good Sunderland turn out greeted Nigel as he arrived at the Rutland Street RAOB club , where Nigel spoke in great depth about how he got started in Refereeing and how he progressed up the refereeing ladder starting out in Sunday morning football and working his way up through the Wearside & Northern Leagues taking some knocks and setbacks along the way.
Then with use of the societies high tech VCR and projector!! Nigel played a number of clips of his own games , making us aware of a lot of refereeing good practice but surprisingly even more bad practice which was very refreshing to hear a referee admit when he has cocked up and admit to mistakes which we all make on a regular basis.
Nigel ended his presentation with a good question & answer session in which a lot of our younger members had an active part in , if it wasn’t for the hot buffet getting cold I’m sure Nigel would have been more than happy to continue all night.
I’m sure everyone who was in attendance on the night , including 4 new members & a couple of older members who were rejoining our society , enjoyed the full content of the night and with more quality guest speakers programmed for the months to come the future looks bright for our society.
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