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'CONCACAF announced today the names of 15 referees and 15 assistant referees eligible to officiate at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.   The biennial senior men’s national team championship will be played in the 11 cities across the United States, June 5 - 25, 2011. Before receiving a confirmed Gold Cup assignment, each referee and assistant referee ...

Sian Massey's seen her name in the headlines plenty over the last 12 months... And she's thrust back into the limelight after being bundled over by Cardiff City defender Kevin McNaughton. Accidental or Deliberate?  You could make the argument for both..... By the way, she got flattened and still got up and gave the goal kick, laughing it off ...

While in Portland last week for the US Soccer + SPARQ event where the new US Soccer curriculum was presented, I had a chance to sit down with Claudio Reyna and a couple other media members ask a few questions. One of the topics that was brought up was the respect campaign that US Soccer initiated. This falls in line with what Claudio had been ...

I've always wondered what it would look like when someone's nightmare / worst case scenario actually happened in real life...... During last night's Everton vs Birmingham City match at Goodison Park, Referee Peter Walton realized he had forgotten his Yellow Card in the locker-room only after fishing in his left pocket when attempting to book ...

via Guardian Arsène Wenger and Samir Nasri have each been charged with improper conduct by Uefa for comments the manager and his midfielder are alleged to have made to Massimo Busacca who refereed Barcelona's 3-1 defeat of Arsenal that knocked them out of the Champions League on Tuesday night. The club also faces a secondary charge that it was ...

via UEFA The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the guardian of the laws of the game, has agreed to the deployment of two additional assistant referees at UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine next summer. This follows a request by UEFA to the IFAB to continue the experiment at the tournament. The IFAB – which comprises the ...

via Guardian The Liverpool manager said: "There has been a theme about referees for most of this week. When I came back in we were made aware of the Respect campaign that is there to help referees and which, obviously, we have adhered to. We have never come out and criticised the referees after games. It is difficult for them not to make ...

The heated match between local rivals Claypole and Victoriano Arenas descended into mayhem in the second half as players, technical staff and even fans were involved what can easily be described as a mass brawl.  In the ensuing chaos the swamped ref, Damian Rubino, gave up on the whistle and just decided to basically red card everyone ... all ...