Taking charge
Successful Sports Officiating will help new officials understand and apply the basic principles of successful officiating
All posts tagged: Officiating / Refereeing
Who’s really offside?
Referees are used to negative comments but in this case the criticism was framed by a version of masculinity which targets women as inherently incapable of understanding the rules of sport, especially football.
Referees need earplugs not glasses
Sport teams as well as individual athletes performing “at home” have higher success rates than teams or athletes performing “away.”
Racism claims given red card
An in-depth study has not only revealed no evidence of racism towards non-white players when a referee came to handing out yellow cards but suggests they could in reality be treated more leniently.
Tall guys are fall guys
soccer’s tall people usually get the dirty end of the stick in ambiguous situations when a referee calls a foul.
The Sports Rules Book
From alpine skiing to wrestling and all sports in between, this book is an all-inclusive resource covering 54 sports.