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DELEGATES :- Brian Reader 01483 480651 Roy Butler WARBLER Editor :- Mac McBirnie, 16 Robins Dale 01483 835717 / 07770 643229 Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2LQ [email protected] COMMITTEE:- Derek Stovold LIFE MEMBERS :- David Cooper Gareth Heighes Cedge Gregory Chis Cook Chris Jones Meril Readett Ken Chivers Colin Barnett Neil Collins Friends of Woking Referees Society Roy Lomax ; Saundra Evans ; Pam Wells ; Tom Jackson ; Elaine Riches INSIDE THIS MONTH’S WARBLER Page 1: Agenda Page 2 : From the Chair Page 3 : Accounts /Membership update Page 4 : Mac’s Musings Page 5 : Howard Webb MBE Page 6 : Well off the mark Page 7 : Howard Webb advice Page 10 : Murphy’s Meanderings Page 11/12/13 : Zero Tolerance / Goal line Technology Page 14 : The Adventures of Willy the Whistler part 1 Page 15 : The Adventures of Willy the Whistler part 2 Page 16 : Football for the Blind Page 17 : Further Adventures of Willy the Whistler. Page 18 : Belgium 2011 Page 21 : Dates for Your Diary Page 22 : Dean Mohareb—a profile Page 24 : Plum Tree Page 26 /27 : What would you do Answers / What would you do? The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Meadow Sports Football Club Loop Road Playing Fields, Loop Road, Kingfield, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9BQ 7.30pm for a prompt 8pm start AGENDA 8pm CHAIRMAN‟S WELCOME OUR GUEST SPEAKER Dean Mohareb FA National Referee Manager – Workforce BREAK SOCIETY BUSINESS 10pm CLOSE NEXT MEETING February 7th 2011 Surrey County FA Disciplinary Roadshow The Deadline for the February Warbler is Friday 14th January 2011 1 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Happy New Year to you, I hope you have a great 2011 I hope you have all enjoyed the festive period and have had an enjoyable break all be it a slightly enforced break from football. It feels like forever now since we have had regular football, some clubs not having played a game since mid November. I hope by the time the warbler goes to print we are out of this severe cold snap and things are back to normal. May I suggest if you are in the promotion scheme and you are now struggling to fit in 20 games, contact your area co-ordinator and let them know as soon as possible. Communication really is the name of the game. A big thank you to Lee Cable for a very enjoyable and informative December meeting. Lee spoke about his role as a Level 3 coach and imparted some extremely useful help and guidance about how we can all improve our refereeing. I know that all those that were in attendance could not help but learn from Lee's wise words and experience. A big thank you also goes to Pam our patron and Doris Cable who put on a fantastic spread for all to enjoy. Our January guest will be Dean Mohareb. Dean is a newly appointed National refe- rees manager and I am sure he will tell us more about his role on the 10th. More about Dean further on in the Warbler. Please show your support to Dean by attending and giving him a warm Woking welcome. The issue of language was raised at the last meeting, I think it is fair to say that we have no control over what we see on the TV and that to suggest the game played at every level is the same would be naïve. What we can do however is make sure we take appropriate action when we are refereeing, this we do have control over. Clearly it is easy to act on foul language when it is directed at us or other players, how ever If you are confronted with a player that is consistently using shall we say industrial lan- guage in his or her every day speak, then that becomes more difficult. Please con- sider using the respect directive of using the captain to control this player, if you then need to take further action you have already sold the decision. It is up to us to make sure football is played within an environment where every body can enjoy it, which may include young children watching. Don‘t be the referee that chose to do nothing and then moan about the state of the game, I urge you not to ignore foul language. The game needs us all to do our bit. I hope the ball runs kindly for you Vince 2 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society STOP PRESS !! The Surrey Primary League has appointed a new Referees Secretary: Scott Brundish The SPL are currently recruiting new and experienced referees for Sundays. If you are interested, please contact Scott, who is a Referee and league officer, on 07956 321741 or [email protected] From the Treasurer Society Accounts as at 27 Dec 2010 2010 Current Status General £992.23 Supplies £615.86 Belgium £100.00 Youth Fund £113.50 Total £1,821.59 Membership 89 Full Members 1 Associate 5 Friends The Surrey County Referees Association annual 5 a side competition is taking place on 16th January 2011 Venue Woking Leisure Centre Time 3pm to 6pm Come along and support Ricky and the lads as they battle to retain their crown 3 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Not much happening on the refereeing front this last month. Just one game and that was touch and go. There was a layer of frost, but the morning sun and a 30 minute delay and it was game on. Unfortunately it was a game of amazing inepti- tude on the behalf of the players. Keen, but rubbish footballers - bit like the ref I hear you say. The Surrey Primary League introduced their new Referees Secretary, Scott Brundish, to their referees by inviting them to a meeting at Abbey Rangers Club- house. About a dozen or so of us turned up and it was interesting to see that there were two distinct camps. The more mature of us and the younger element. The biggest problem and paradoxically the advantage that the refs secs have with youth football, more so than with the adult game, is the variation in kick off times. The advantage is that quite often a referee will officiate more than one game a day. It sometimes appears that a referee is allocated to a pitch and he stays there whilst the youngsters come and go. Also many of the younger referees also play which although providing the refs sec with a resource, is a nightmare trying to fit in allocating them a game around their own games. With some 600 teams in the Surrey Primary League, Scott certainly has his work cut out and I wish him the best of luck. As I write this England having retained the Ashes, are about to embark on the final test at Sidney. I must confess to not being a great cricket fan. I was as a youngster not over keen on someone chucking a very hard ball at me from some 11 yards away whilst being armed with only a big stick and some flimsy padding around the lower half of my legs, which either kept slipping down and getting stuck into my instep or so tight they cut off the circulation to my feet.– this was of course pre Velcro. That doesn‘t however detract from an appreciation of the skill employed by cricketers at this level, plus it‘s always great when England win anything. One interesting incident was Ricky Ponting‘s show of dissent during the 4th test which resulted in a fine of 40% of his match fee. I‘m not sure how much Premier- ship, or any professional footballer, is fined when cautioned for dissent, but I doubt it is a much as 40% of their weekly pay. The Daily Mail featured articles from Graham Poll, David Lyoyd and Matt Daw- son each writing about dissent in their respective sport. With Football it is, unfor- tunately part and parcel of the game, and of course the tantrums at the highest level are copied on the Parks every weekend. I reckon I‘ve issued more cards for dissent than any other infringement of the Laws of the Game. Rugby still have the 10yard rule for dissent which can be very effective, as from a quick tap a side can easily concede a penalty or even a try, but they also seem to have a different mindset when it come to respect for officials. What was I thought very significant with the Ponting incident was that even with irrefutable evidence from the slow motion replay and the ―hot spot‖ he still contin- ued to argue with the officials. This really goes to show that even if we had goal line technology, players and managers would I feel still be berating the referee. Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. Mac 4 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Congratulations to Howard Webb who receives the MBE in the New Year Honours List Howard Webb admits it has been an 'amazing' year after the World Cup final referee was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List. The South Yorkshire official took charge of Spain's victory over Holland in a stormy showpiece in South Africa back in July.