Onside Referee @RefereeOnside
A blog about the challenges of Refereeing. onsidereferee.wordpress.com Joined October 2021-
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Yesterday, I made the decision to hang up my whistle. To my now former colleagues of the Refereeing community, I wish you well for the future. But for me, after ten years I’ve decided that the time is right to quit before I come to hate the sport.
Onside Referees first blog post is about Club Marks. onsidereferee.wordpress.com/blog/
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