Officiating in sport
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My Analysis of my classmates performance as an official Referees are an integral part of football. Without them, the game, whether played by 5 a-side teams, Sunday morning park footballers or Premiership players would be very different to the one played by over 2 million people each week. To read the game as a referee, you must be one step ahead of play, anticipating the next move of the phase of play before it happens.1 This gives you more time to react, allowing you to become pro-active rather than re-active to situations that may occur. There is now currently a nationwide shortage of referees. There are 33,000 referees in this country, covering the 40,000 games played each weekend. Every year 7,000 referees are both recruited and lost, through age, fitness and abuse, leaving a shortfall of 8,000. This means that 20 % of all games have no referee.2 According to Chris Checketts,...

