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refferees

A referee presides over a game of association football. The referee has “full authority to enforce the Laws of the Game in connection with the match to which he has been appointed” (Law 5), and the referee’s decisions regarding facts connected with play are final, so far as the result of the game is concerned.The referee is assisted

by two assistant referees (formerly known as linesmen), and in some matches also by a fourth official. The match officials utilise a positioning system known as the diagonal system of control. UEFA have also trialled the use of additional assistant referees who have jurisdiction over the goal areas and help interpret incidents in the immediate

being an official is the hardest job in football

goal area or if the ball has crossed the goal line in the act of scoring a goal.[1]The vast majority of referees are amateur, though they are usually paid a small fee and/or expenses for their services. However, in some countries a limited number of referees – who mainly officiate in their country’s top league – are employed full-time by their national associations and receive a retainer at the start of every

season plus match fees.Referees are licensed and trained by the same national organisations that are members of FIFA. Each national organisation recommends its top officials to FIFA to have the additional honour of being named a FIFA official. International games between national teams require FIFA officials.

ex-playersEx-Players can be regarded as players no longer in the game or players that have moved from a team to a different team. Rooney’s agent snubbed a three-year, £12,000-a-week contract offer from Everton in August 2004, leaving Manchester United and Newcastle United to compete for his signature. Everton rejected a bid of £20 million from Newcastle,

and Manchester United ultimately won the bidding war with Rooney signing for them at the end of the month after a £25.6 million deal with Everton was reached. It was the highest fee ever paid for a player under 20 years old; Rooney was still only 18 when he left Everton.Rooney was given the number 8 shirt upon his arrival at Old Trafford.

He made his United debut on 28 September in a 6–2 home win over Fenerbahçe in the Champions League, scoring a hat-trick and laying on an assist.These goals made Rooney the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League aged 18 years 335 days.Garry Ablett was an English professional footballer and manager. He played as a defender. He spent nine years with Liverpool, and went on to win the FA Cup with their city rivals Everton in 1995. He was formerly Liverpool F.C. Reserves manager, a position he left in May 2009 to join Stockport County, whom he left on 17 June 2010. Ablett died on 1 January 2012, following a 16-month battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

the only player to win the Fa cup with both merseyside clubs

local rivals

The fans were questioned on who they regarded to be their main rivals and their second main rivals, with Manchester United, Burnley, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Chelsea ranking highest, with more clubs regarding them as their rivals.

Manchester United have more rivals than any other team, with fans from five clubs all claiming United are their main rivals. Arsenal, Bolton, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester City think of United as their top rival, with Arsenal dumping their traditional rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Everton and Newcastle consider United

as their 2nd mind rival.

Burnley (Blackburn, Halifax and Stockport regard them as their main rival; Preston, Rochdale and Blackpool see them as their second main rival), Leeds (Bradford and Hull; Huddersfield, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United), Sheffield Wednesday (Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield United; Hartlepool and Chesterfield), Chelsea (QPR and Fulham; Spurs and Leeds), Bolton (Bury, Tranmere and Wigan; Blackburn) are the other teams, alongside Manchester United, in the top 5.

biggest football rivalries

From Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and London. Rome to Rio and Buenos Aires. Most cities have football clubs where derby day is the main event in the calendar for fans, publicans, pundits and police.But some of the greatest football rivalries make no sense geographically. Supporters of teams across the world look forward to travelling miles and miles just to earn the bragging rights for another season.

Liverpool v Man United - A struggle for the Best of British title has kept these two adversaries in battle for over a half a century.

United’s dominance of the Premier League era has hauled them level with the Merseysiders on 18 domestic titles while Liverpool trump their rivals on the Continent with five European Cups to three. Culturally, too, an industrial rivalry exists between the two beacons of England’s north-west.

Celtic v Rangers - The religious undercurrent to the Old Firm derby makes it unlike in any other fixture in the world. Away from the obvious antipathy that exists between two dominant clubs in the same city, there is a long and passionate rivalry that goes beyond the confines of the stadium.

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