Meeting
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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