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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 INSIDE THIS MONTH’S WARBLER Page 1: Agenda Page 2 : From the Chair Page 3 : Membership update Page 4 : Mac’s Musings Page 5 : The Perfect Referee Page 6/7 : Respect—Cyril West Page 8 : Target Setting—Jim de Rennes Page 9: Different Ball Game for Referees Page 11 : Journos get into Refereeing Page 12 : Message from our Secretary Page 13 / 14 : Murphy’s Meanderings Page 15 : Membership Application Form Page 16/17/18 : England World Cup—Len Randall Reminisces Page 19 : Dates for your diary Page 20 : Jeff Pettit—a profile Page 20/21 : Steve Bruce kicks off Page 23 : Plum Tree Page 26 /27 : What would you do Answers ( May ) / 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 8am CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME OUR GUEST SPEAKER Jeff Petitt BREAK BELGIUM PRESENTATION SUNDAY LEAGUE DOCUMENTARY MISCONDUCT UPDATE—DEREK STOVOLD 10pm CLOSE NEXT MEETING MONDAY 4th October 2010 Guest Speaker Tim Lawrence Surrey County FA Referees Development Officer The Deadline for the October Warbler is Friday 24th September 2010 1 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Welcome to the September Warbler and firstly may I say a big thank you to Peter Shreeves for making the August meeting one of the most interesting and enjoy- able meetings that I can remember. Thank you to Peter for sharing a snap shot of a career in football that has spanned over 50 years giving us a small insight into a world that we can only normally watch from the outside. This month we welcome Jeff Pettit who will be giving us a presentation on Advantage. It has been 4 years since Jeff‘s last visit so let‘s show Jeff our support by as many of us coming along to the meeting as possible. We as a society have a long association with our friends from Belgium and Dave and Roy have continued to nurture the relationship so much so that it is as strong now as it has ever been. For a full run down of next years proposed trip make sure you come along on the 6th and find out what you have been missing out on. What a strange experience turning out at Woking last Saturday, having watched many league games at Kingfield and officiating Woking in other competitions it was my first experience of actually being on the line in a full on league fixture. The game went well with Woking unfortunately losing 0 - 2. However it did make me think about all the times teams for which we have no connection, question our neutrality. Its great to know in my own mind that as soon as that first whistle went it was business as usual and I could only focus on doing the best job I could do, concentrating on making correct decisions. As they say ―the referees integrity is not in question‖ and in this case the assistant referee. See Woking FC web site for a full match report and highlights of the game. After a lack lustre world cup the top flight of English football has started with a bang, goals goals goals! Long may it continue and I hope your seasons have started in a similarly positive fashion. Its always nice starting a new season with a clean sheet and with fresh ambitions, I hope you achieve all your goals and have an enjoyable season along the way. I look forward to seeing you all on the 6th. Vince Membership Update 2010/11 Membership as at 14th August 84 Full Members 5 Friends 1 Associate Member 2 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Treasurer Update 2010 Current Status General £1,491.55 Supplies £650.64 Belgium £0.00 Youth Fund £113.50 Total £2,255.69 A LESSON FROM THE WORLD CUP: COURAGE AND CONSISTENCY One of the bravest decisions a referee can make is to order the retaking of a penalty kick from which a goal has been scored, when both teams are happy to accept the outcome of the kick. All credit, therefore, to Guatemalan referee Carlos Batres for doing just that in the quarter final match between Paraguay and Spain in this summer‘s World Cup. Xabi Alonso scored from the spot-kick, but several of his team mates had en- croached into the penalty area. The retaken kick was saved by the Paraguay keeper, Justo Villar. So far, so good….Unfortunately, television producers were quick to replay a penalty kick taken by Oscar Cardozo for Paraguay just a few minutes previ- ously. Casillas saved the kick, but several Spanish defenders were well into the penalty area when the kick was taken, and a retake should therefore have been ordered. The credit due to Carlos Batres for his courage was wiped out by the fact that he had been inconsistent in his application of the Laws. Whether we should apply common sense, and turn a blind eye to encroach- ment at penalty kicks unless the outcome is affected is another matter. It is perhaps advisable that, as far as possible, we should not surprise players with decisions no one expects, in which case Carlos Butres might have been better advised to allow Alonso‘s goal to stand, as he had Casillas‘s save. We should all strive at all levels of refereeing, and in all aspects of the applica- tion of Law to be both BRAVE and CONSISTENT, while also, perhaps, allow- ing, on occasions, for a little common sense….. Jim de Rennes (Kingston Referees‘ Society) Mother Superior called the nuns together and said "I have to tell you that we have a case of gonorrhoea in the convent" "Thank God", said an elderly nun at the back, "I'm so tired of Chardonnay." 3 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees‘ Society Bit of a panic this month. The PC picked up a virus and it took 2 trips to the PC medic shop to resolve, plus the exchange of a considerable number of notes. It would have almost been more economical to buy a new one. It is now Sunday morning and I‘ve just started to put the Warbler together, thankfully it is a bank holiday so I have an extra day before going to print. What an excellent speaker we had in Peter Shreeves last month. His tales and an- ecdotes of life as a manager at Tottenham and Sheffield Wednesday as well as a coach at Chelsea and QPR had the 34 attending members enthralled and amused. We were discussing the issue‘s of why England performed poorly in South Africa and should we have an English or British Manager and the quality of coaches gen- erally. Peter told us that a few years ago the FA contacted him to say he had to go on a course in order to get his badge so he could carry on coaching .The fact that he had been coaching quite successfully for some 30 odd years had no bear- ing on the matter. Also present on the course were the likes of Graham Souness, Martin O‘Neil, and Terry Venables. The young coach, relatively speaking, must have had his hands full trying to tell such experienced managers and coaches where they had been going wrong all these years. I also loved his stories of various players he‘d worked with over the years, includ- ing Gazza who had an annoying habit, well he probably had several, but was in- clined, when staying in a hotel to phone up various players at 3 in the morning to enquire whether they would like a game of table tennis or snooker? It really was a great evening. This edition does, I‘m afraid, contain a couple more articles about the world cup (just when you thought it was all over). One is an excellent article by Len Randall, who many of us know from his visits to our Society and his assessing on our patch, which I spotted in the Chiltern referee. In it he mentions the 5th and 6th Offi- cials who I see are being employed in the European Champions League this year. On the that subject I was watching Spurs v Young Boys last week (nice hat-trick Crouchy ) and I‘m sure that the added officials (do they have a title—goal hang- ers? Line touch judges ?) seem to be holding some sort of stick. What‘s that all about? Michael Platini meanwhile has decreed that the 2 extra officials will elimi- nate all referees mistakes! -Right! At last month‘s meeting we discussed an edict from the FA that club linesmen who have received training either as an assistant or referee could at the referees dis- cretion do more than just give ball in and out of play.