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The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society Meadow Sports Football Club Loop Rd Playing Fields, Loop Rd, Kingfield, Woking Surrey GU22 9BQ 7.45pm for a prompt 8pm start AGENDA 8.00 Chairman’s Welcome Our Guest Speaker Ray Olivier Training and Development Manager PGMOL Break Society Business Next meeting Monday 5th November 2012 The Deadline for the November edition is Friday 26th October 2012 The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Society or it’s Committee 1 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society Welcome to the October Warbler A big thank you to Marc Birkett for being our guest speaker at the September meeting. Marc gave us all a very interesting insight in to the world of Futsal. We wish him well when he travels to the Futsal World Cup at the end of this year This month we welcome Ray Olivier. Ray was one of the national referee man- agers and now works for the PGMOL working with the cream of our countries referees. I urge you to come along to what will not only an educational evening but also a very enjoyable one. End of September and its rained all day, how far are we away from the inevita- ble pitch inspections. If this is your first season or if you have not carried out an inspection before, applying a few simple rules could help when making the big decision. Firstly and most importantly is it safe. A waterlogged pitch could offer as much danger as a frozen pitch! Can a game of football be played that won’t be farcical. Consider the conditions, check the forecast; if you can start, can you finish? Remember it’s your decision, take on board local knowledge but be sure in your own mind its your decision. My tip, if its 50 – 50 and no one wants to play, what have you got to gain by playing the game? As I am out injured at the moment, it has given me time to watch a bit more football than I usually do. I was very pleased recently to be able to go along and watch one of our members. What was significant about this game was that although there had been 7 cautions and 1 send off. There were no complaints or rants at the end of the game. In fact the referee in question was thanked with hand shakes all round. It was a good reminder that actually by carrying out our duty correctly and applying the laws of the game consistently, will earn us more respect than trying to please clubs and or players by keeping our cards in our pocket. The no card approach often leads to more dissent and less respect. I know I can think back to games where I have tried to over man- age which definitely went against me. Be true to your self, do the right things and others will respect you. Well-done Mr. L. on a great game. I hope to see you all at the October meeting. Yours in sport Vince 2 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society From the Treasurer / Membership Secretary 2012 Current Status General £1,335.55 Supplies £271.95 Belgium £0.00 Youth Fund £113.50 Total £1,721.0 012/13 Membership As at 20th September 64 Full Members 5 Friends 2 Affiliate Members Ray Olivier Training & Development Manager PGMOL Ray left the English Football Association in September 2010 to take up his new position as Training & Development Manager for the Professional Game Match Officials and is now responsible for the training and development of elite refe- rees and assistant referees in England. Ray’s previous role with the English FA was to lead, manage, support and di- rect the development of the paid and volunteer workforce involved in refereeing including Referee Development Officers, Instructors, Match Inspectors, Men- tors and Coaches. Ray retired from the National Referees List at the end of Season 2006/07 and he is currently a Professional Game Match Inspector and an FA Licensed Refe- ree Instructor. Ray has been qualified FA Licensed Referee Instructor since 1989 and has considerable experience at all levels of referee training in both in England and overseas, delivering Elite Referees courses in Bermuda, Trinidad & Tobago, Mali, Ethiopia, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, Qatar, Asia (AFC) Malaysia, Vene- zuela, Peru, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Fiji and Uganda. 3 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society It’s Sunday evening and I’ve just about dried out from today’s game. I must admit that wearing an under armour type stretchy nike top under my refs shirt really keeps me warm and feeling dry. Couple that with my trendy baseball cap that keeps the rain off my specs and jobs a good’un. It was a cup game and with the score at 0-0 at half time and the rain coming down even harder I’m thinking typi- cal, I really do not need extra time and pens today. Thankfully the game finished 4-1. The tape / short socks colour clash is proving interesting. All 3 games I’ve done so far this year resulted in me asking at last 2 or 3 players in each team to re- move such offending articles, and in every case the manager had said. I’ve told you all about this. In that case,I thought, why do you wait until I raise it? In a similar vein I’ve had two lads from 2 different teams, who have appeared with tape wrapped around their ear lobe. On asking why I’m told they have an earing/piercing. On telling them that they have to remove them ,I get the old “ I’ve never been asked to remove it before, only to tape it up”. Then up comes the manager who also believe it’s ok to tape up the offending article. These are U18s so how come they’ve managed to get away with this for so long? And why am I now the villain of the piece when I’m only trying to protect the players safety. I feel a letter to the leagues coming on. The first game of the season and there 4 or 5 games all going on at the club ground from mini soccer to U18s I have a chat with the ref on next pitch before my game when he asks to borrow my pressure gauge, (I have a gauge but no pump) it being difficult to judge with new balls. We kick of at the same time. Afterwards I see him sitting by the side of the pitch changing his boots and look- ing a bit glum. Another ref is also there discussing his game. “ Don’t let them get to you mate” he was saying, “ Just take your fee and move on” As he wandered off, rather despondently I asked what had happened. Apparently one of his club assistants hadn’t been keeping up with the game particularly well and when he flagged for an offside, for which he blew up, one of the spectators who had already been rather vocal, called him a cheat. Unfortunately he didn’t do anything about it, although I believe the manager did tell the offending ( or should that be offensive) Dad to calm down and shut up. On the few occasions I’ve had a Dad (or Mum, mustn't be sexist here) start get- ting too vocal I’ve always stopped the game, walked calmly over to the manager, even though I’m fuming inside, and informed the manager that unless he/she stops immediately, they will be watching the rest of the match from the clubhouse or their car.—Worked every time so far. The one time I heard the word “CHEAT” I couldn’t work out who it was so told the manager the game would not be re- started until he sent the offender away. It was his son who I felt sorry for, he looked embarrassed as hell.