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3 unusual facts about Referee


Referee

An umpire is also used in fleet racing to enforce Racing Rule 42 which limits the use of kinetics to drive the boat rather than the wind.

However sometimes in match race and in team racing an "umpire" is an on-the-water referee appointed to directly enforce the Racing Rules of Sailing.

Refereeing while racing is happening are very unusual within sailing preferring a jury style arrangement after racing has happened known as a protest committee.


2012 FA Community Shield

Kevin Friend of Leicestershire was named as referee, having previously been the fourth official at both the 2011 League Cup Final and the 2011 Community Shield, and refereed the 2009 FA Vase Final.

2013 World Club Challenge

With 10 minutes left, the Storm appeared to have wrapped up victory when winger Mahe Fonua scored, but referee Ben Thaler ruled forward the final pass from centre Justin O'Neill.

Amar Suloev

The UFC invited him back at UFC 37 to fight Phil Baroni, where a controversial knee by Suloev was landed while Baroni was on his knees getting up, shortly after the referee stood them up, Baroni landed a flurry of punches which stopped Suloev.

Arturo Angeles

Arturo Angeles (born September 12, 1953) is a retired football (soccer) referee from the United States, best known for supervising one match (Argentina-Greece) during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in his native country.

Aytekin

Deniz Aytekin (born 1978), German football referee of Turkish descent

Ben M. Jannif

Between 1928 and 1938 Janiff was involved as an administrator, coach and referee with Indian Reform League football team and was closely associated with the formation of the Suva, Rewa and Levuka district football teams.

Bengt Madsen

Madsen is also famous for being a controversial figure in the sport such as an incident in 2002 when Madsen verbally criticized referee Anders Frisk in half-time in an Allsvenskan match between Malmö FF and Hammarby IF.

Bobby Pacquiao

Referee Kenny Bayless warned Bobby Pacquiao ten times for performing too many low blows before he disqualified him in the eleventh round.

Brian Lewis

Bryan Lewis (born 1942), Canadian municipal politician and former NHL referee

Carlos Padilla, Sr.

From a famous family of actors and politicians, he is the brother of actor José Padilla, Jr., father to international boxing referee Carlos "Sonny" Padilla, Jr.

Cătălin Moroșanu

On November 27, he rematched Gary Goodridge at K-1 Scandinavia Rumble of the Kings 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden and was able to better "Big Daddy" once again as he won via TKO (referee stoppage) in the second round.

Cayuga, Ontario

Jack Melenbacher a local who was at the time an NHL referee mentored the team and a young Roy Edwards who played goal for the Seedmen later starred in the NHL for the Detroit Red Wings.

Chuck Quackenbush

Those funds were used to create television commercials in which Quackenbush appeared as a basketball referee with Shaquille O'Neal in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform.

Cillian O'Connor

O'Connor claimed afterwards to have been told there were 30 seconds of play remaining, but referee Joe McQuillan disputed this.

Curt McCune

Notably, he has trained with referee Richard Steele at the Sugar Ray Leonard Nevada Partners Center.

Daniel González Benítez

On 5 May 2012, after the home game against Real Madrid ended (1–2 home loss), he threw a bottle at referee Carlos Clos Gómez which hit him in the face, eventually being suspended for three months.

Dominican Republic at the 1984 Summer Olympics

# Quarterfinals — Defeated Moon Sung-Kil (South Korea), referee stopped contest in first round

Edwin Dewees

However, in the second round, Dewees sustained a large cut in his forehead, forcing referee Herb Dean to call a timeout for the doctor to assess the cut due to the large amount of blood pouring from Dewees' head.

F. Maurice Speed

Having been an assistant to Edward Martell, proprietor of The Sunday Referee, it was to Martell that Speed turned when he had the idea to set up the listings magazine What's On in London.

Finau Vulivuli

Finau Vulivuli (born 18 August 1982 in Savusavu) is a Fijian women's football referee.

Fleeting expletive

On November 4, 2012, during the Dolphins-Colts game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, referee Tony Corrente loudly said, “God damn it!” CBS play-by-play announcer Kevin Harlan apologized on-air because Corrente’s illegal language slipped past the censors.

Frank Mir

After a period of recovery from the knee Lesnar pinned Mir up against the cage and delivered multiple unanswered blows to his face, forcing referee Herb Dean to stop the fight via TKO at 1:48 in the second round.

Hartley Jackson

In 2005, Hartley Jackson made his first trip to the USA which was sponsored by Rick Sanders, a founder of EPW in Perth, and took Mikey Nicholls with him Hartley and Mikey lived and trained at the NJPW Dojo located in Los Angeles, California where they trained pro wresting with Kendo Kashin, Rocky Romero, Antonio Inoki and Terry Taylor and also trained in MMA which was coached by UFC referee Herb Dean.

Hockey Canada Officiating Program

; Unsportsmanlike conduct : Arguing with a referee; using slurs against an opponent or teammate; playing with illegal equipment; making obscene gestures or abusing an official.

Ivan Bebek

Bebek is considered the best Croatian referee and is the only Croatian referee who supervised two UEFA Champions League group stage matches (Lazio v. Werder Bremen during the 2007–08 season and Bordeaux v. CFR Cluj in the 2008–09 season).

Jay Nady

Jay Nady (born August 23, 1947) is a championship boxing referee and the uncle of Kansas City Royals outfielder Xavier Nady.

Johannes Linßen

On 23 January 1971, while playing for MSV Duisburg against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Linßen received the first ever yellow card to be awarded in the Bundesliga, although the card should in fact have been awarded to his teammate Đorđe Pavlić, the referee having confused the two players.

Kevin Kilbane

On 26 August 2006, during his last game for Everton against Tottenham Hotspur, he was sent off by referee Mark Halsey for two bookable offences.

Michel Kitabdjian

Michel Kitabdjian (born 7 May 1930 in Nice) was the French referee who officiated the infamous 1975 European Cup Final between Leeds United and Bayern Munich in which he had disallowed a goal by Leeds United's Peter Lorimer for offside and denied Leeds two penalty appeals as Franz Beckenbauer first handled the ball in the box and then brought down Allan Clarke in a tackle.

Mickey Ion

The team was run by hockey entrepreneurs Lester Patrick and Frank Patrick, and when they started the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1911, they hired several of their lacrosse players—Ion among them—to referee the league's games.

Mojtaba Moharrami

He also was banned for a year for attacking referee Jamal Al Sharif during Iran-Japan match in 1992 Asian cup.

Nick Hamilton

After the brand extension, Patrick was used as the head referee on the SmackDown! brand.

Paksi SE

In stoppage time at the end of the first half, Finnish referee Mattias Gestranius awarded Hearts a soft penalty, which was scored by Jamie Hamill to equalise and end the scoring on the night at the Sóstói Stadion.

Penalty card

After the match, newspaper reports stated that referee Rudolf Kreitlein had cautioned both Bobby and Jack Charlton, as well as sending off Argentinian Antonio Rattin.

Pete Morelli

Morelli was hired by the NFL in 1997 as a back judge, then switched to field judge after the league swapped position titles in 1998, and was promoted to referee with the start of the 2003 NFL season following the retirements of Dick Hantak and Bob McElwee.

Peter Oskam

As a referee he refereed 64 football games in the Eredivisie (Honorary Division) between 1998 and 2004.

Professional Referee Organization

Heading up PRO is Peter Walton, a former referee who officiated just under 200 matches in the English Premier League.

Rateb Al-Awadat

As the match referee blew his whistle after the first 5 minutes to stop the match for Rateb to leave the field, Rateb gave the captain armband to his old international teammate Hatem Aqel as well as his #4 jersey to his old teammate of Al-Faisaly (Amman) Qusai Abu Alieh.

Rob Shick

The former referee Rob Shick (born December 4, 1957 in Port Alberni, British Columbia) was a National Hockey League referee beginning with the 1985–86 NHL season.

Robert Hoyzer

Hoyzer's career as a referee came to an abrupt end in January 2005 after he was suspected of betting on a first-round German Cup tie between regional league side Paderborn and 1st Bundesliga club Hamburger SV on 21 August 2004.

Robert Wangila

Wangila had been beaten to such a bad condition that the referee Joe Cortez stopped the match in favour of Gonzales, despite Wangila's fierce protests.

Silverman

Billy Silverman (born William Daley) (1962- ) an American pro wrestling referee

Sokratis Papastathopoulos

He became the first player to be sent off at UEFA Euro 2012 during the opening game of the tournament against co-hosts Poland, after receiving two yellow cards, following what pundits decried as two poor decisions by the referee Carlos Velasco Carballo.

SSV Markranstädt

Rudi Glöckner worked as a referee in East Germany's top flight DDR-Oberliga from 1959–1977 and officiated in the final of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

Stevie O'Reilly

Stevie O'Reilly (born 13 December 1966) is a Scottish football referee who is active in the Scottish Premier League.

Swede Knox

Knox, as a linesman, later filled in as referee during a game in Toronto in the early 1990s, when Don Koharski couldn't finish the game and Kevin Maguire made his NHL officiating debut as a linesman.

Thomas Hobbes

He built a good reputation in philosophic circles and in 1645 was chosen with Descartes, Gilles de Roberval and others, to referee the controversy between John Pell and Longomontanus over the problem of squaring the circle.

Tom Sharkey

Unable to find a referee, at the last minute they called on former lawman Wyatt Earp.

Tommy Young

By the 1980s, Tommy was the Senior Referee for Jim Crockett Promotions and refereed most of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship matches.

Wunderteam

Referee Ivan Eklind was criticized for partiality toward the host nation, especially after he also refereed the final which Italy also won.


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