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5th November 2024

Referee abuse – a team kicked out and players banned for 10 years

A few weeks ago, I was quoted in the Sunday Mail on the subject of referee abuse.  Following incidents where


7th October 2024

How do we stop violence and abuse against referees?

It’s easy to say that violence and abuse directed at match officials is unacceptable and must stop. Making it stop is


22nd September 2024

Mr English and the Guinness Book of Records

Picture the scene… It is Tuesday. Over the weekend, Mr. English has been up in Dundee to talk to a


15th September 2024

Willie Collum is nice…shocker… in praise of the refs

Willie Collum is nice…shocker… One of the nicest things to have emerged recently – I use the word nice, advisedly


31st July 2024

New season, new referee?

At the start of this calendar year, the SFSA launched a campaign to encourage our members to become referees.  


6th May 2024

NOW is the time for a PROPER debate on VAR

Following the news that the SFA acknowledges there were 26 mistakes made in VAR in Scotland in the current season,


16th April 2024

No ref no game means what it says – especially for youth football

Back in the 1990s, Peter Glancey worked a beat as a community police officer in Glasgow.  This led him to


10th April 2024

You are the ref… some more entertaining questions…

We all shout at refs and linos…. but how many of us actually now the rules (the Laws of the


4th April 2024

Women’s football needs more refs!

In another excerpt from our Director of Operation’s book on Scottish referees, I’m today highlighting the difficulties our pioneering women


19th February 2024

Why we are supporting our referees

“Tonight, myself and a colleague whilst refereeing leisure leagues were violently assaulted, I issued a yellow card. Turned towards the


14th February 2024

YOU are the ref….?

‘You are the Ref’ was a feature which appeared in a number of publications from the 1950s up to 2016.