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Welcome to the Grantham and District Referees' Association website. |
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Grantham & District Referees Association are keen to
recruit new referees (male or female) to help support our local football leagues,
and develop / mentor existing referees to perform at their best. If you
would like to become a Referee visit
Training
for more details or contact
Les Burrow
to enrol on one of our courses. |
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Join our Association.
Fees are £21 plus
£7 for ‘The Football Referee’
magazine. |
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Download the
Application
Form |
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Next Meeting Thursday, 29th
March 2007 at 7:30 pm in the Railway Club,Grantham |
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Click on
Events to see what is happening
over the next few months. |
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Sutton Surprise & Sunday Shocker
County Cup Final Appointments 2007
Anthony Howitt had a delightful surprise when being
appointed as 4th Official in the County Senior Cup final,
Lincoln City v Scunthorpe United, along side Gary Sutton in the
middle. Mick Massingham was in shock at being
appointed 4th Official in the County Sunday Cup final; "At my
age I was expecting something like the U12s or U16s!" he said,
which, in advertently, took the gloss off Bill Hannigan &
Tony Sharrock's Assistant Referee appointments in the
U16s and U14s respectively. Steve Beswick was made
up at being appointed as the Referee for the County U16s Girls
final, and Nigel Burton & Simon Carter will be
wearing matching outfits as the Assistant Referees for the
County Women's Cup final. Have a great day lads, and
congratulations on your appointments. |
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Saturday League will need a new Chairman
The Chairman of Grantham Saturday League,
Les Burrow, has signalled his intentions to stand down at the
next AGM. Brenda and Peter Sharp also announced that they
will be standing down from their positions as Secretary and Treasurer.
All three have provided excellence service over many years to the League
and football in general and will be hard acts to follow. Any one
wishing to be considered for the vacant positions should contact Les
Burrow on 01476 570520. |
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Hello, Hello, Hello, What's
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Ex Police Constable Keith Noble, our new
Vice-chairman, gave a brief run down of his career and
experiences whilst serving with the Metropolitan Police Force
from 1952 - 1960, during our February meeting. Keith's "patch" was in the biggest police station
in England, Saville Row, roaming the streets covering Soho and
Mayfair in the West End of London, armed only with a note-book,
whistle and truncheon. This in the days when beer was
still being delivered by Horse & Cart and police accommodation
cost 12.5p (half-crown) a week. After two years on probation Keith then spent 4
years on traffic duty driving a Wolsley 680 (top speed 85 mph
and a dream to drive) and a year in the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID).
Keith, everything you said was "taken
down and used in evidence" of a really entertaining evening;
thank you! |
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Anthony
Neal
Dissertation on Stress
of Referees
Anthony Neal is conducting research on Stress of Referees as
part of his dissertation and needs your help by completing the
Dissertation Survey and then send it via email to
ant_jneal@hotmail.co.uk or print it off and complete
and then send to him via the postal service to: 37 Greetwell
Gate, Lincoln, LN2 4AW |
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Latest News |
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County Cup Final appointments 2007
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Grantham Journal helps recruitment
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Sunday Cup Final Appointments
2007
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Quiz Night - A great success
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February - 200 Club Winners
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Peter Jones - FIFA Assessor
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Child Protection Workshop a great success
more> |
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Referee for the Disabled
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Learn to mark the Referee appropriately
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Jewellery; FA reiterate none to be worn
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| Laws Update 2006
more> |
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Professional League
Games |
| Check out when your favourite
League team is playing in March 2007 directly from the
BBC website. |
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Referees Forum |
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Take part in a Referees
Forum
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Mal's Minutes |
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Take a few minutes out to read an interesting
Time Keeping article by Mal Davies
(Birmingham) the former Editor of 'The Midland
Referee' which he edited for 34 years. He now produces his
own newsletter and writes the Ask The Ref column in Fulham's
match day programme.
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You're having a laugh Ref!
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Masochist
My son was doing his homework. "Dad what's a masochist?"
Dad: "Someone
who gets pleasure from suffering pain".
Son: "That's
no good Dad, it has to be only one word".
Dad: "Referee"
Assessor Tips
"I just don't understand it" the referee complained to his assessor.
"One match I do very well, then the next match I'm terrible, and that's
what you saw today".
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assessor helpfully, "maybe you should just do every other game". |
What tea do footballers drink?
Penal tea.
Where
do footballers dance?
At a “foot ball” of course.
What
lights up a football stadium?
A football "match".
What part
of a football pitch smells nicest?
The scenter spot.
What is a
bank manager's favourite type of football match?
Fiver side! |
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Don't Referee to be fit! Be fit to Referee!
If you need some guidance
why not have a read of Matt Weston's
Pre-Season
Training Guide and Don Maclaren's
Nutrition Guidelines. Matt is one of the FA's top
advisers on fitness and has written an excellent article on the
FA website titled
Heart Rate Monitoring. |
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Finally! We hope you have enjoyed our website
and found it useful.
It is updated regularly so please come back soon! |
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