York RA Dinner – 2015
The date and venue has been agreed for the end of season annual dinner.
It will be at the Marriott Hotel (Tadcaster Road), York.
Date is Saturday 11 April 2015, commencing with pre-dinner drinks at 1930 hrs.
It is envisaged that we will maintain last year’s prices, but we will introduce a choice of menu.
More details to follow.
As from 1 June 2014 the new Law amendments apply. They are minimal and cover Law 4 (Players’ Equipment) – allowing head covers to be worn and clarification of slogans on undershirts (see FIFA circular below)
FIFA also re-iterated that Match Officials are not allowed to use cameras or microphones. So nothing of note to worry about for next season in the local leagues.
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Always ensure that Players Equip complies with Law 4
A message from Peter Hartley:
Thanks to those of you who sponsored our Trans Pennine Trail Challenge in aid of St Leonards Hospice over last weekend.
All 5 of us managed to cover the 257 miles & finished in Hornsea at 6pm last night.
At the moment we have raised in excess of £2,000 & hoping to meet our target of £2500.
The bare facts are that it was a gruelling journey over 3 days & despite the fact we started with 5 brand new bikes, everyone of them was affected in someway, with 2 bald tyres, one smashed derailler, & 3 bikes finishing with no brakes as they had all worn down the brake pads.
Saturday left Southport at 9.30am, covered over 80 miles in driving rain at Glossop at 9.45pm.
Sunday left Glossop at 8.30am, started in 3 hours of driving rain, arrived at St Leonards Hospice at 8.30pm having covered nearly 100 miles.
Monday left St Leonards Hospice at 9.10am, apart from 2 hours of rain around noon, sunny weather, arrived at Hornsea at 6pm having covered over 70 miles.
NOTES FROM THE FA REFEREES’ COMMITTEE MEETING
held on 5 November 2013 at Wembley Stadium
1. In opening the meeting, the Chairman noted with sadness the recent passing of Jim Simms (Leicestershire). He also welcomed Mike Penn (Birmingham FA) and Roy Schafer (Gloucestershire FA) to their first meeting.
2. Report from Neale Barry
a. Update received on the sessions undertaken by the FA Development Group and the plans for the future.
b. Rob McCarthy has been appointed as the Levels 3 + 2B Referee Coaching & Mentoring Manager.
c. 597 referees have attended the various Level 4 Nomination Seminars around the country. Neale needs 300 to get promoted for 2014/15.
d. He has attended 8 regional Supply League Assessors’ meetings.
e. Level 3 meetings are scheduled for November and when a Laws of the Game test will be undertaken as part of these meeting.
3. Report from Ian Blanchard
a. Total number of referees registered as at 25/09/13 was 27,155 plus 745 Level 10s. Equivalent figure of a year ago was 27,955.
b. Successful Advanced International Referee Instructors’ Course held at St Georges Park.
c. RA – FA Youth Council’s Inspired Fund for the year was launched yesterday.
d. New RDO in place in Leicestershire & Rutland FA.
e. Northumberland FA has a new part-time RDO.
f. A paper was presented on the Futsal Referee Development Programme.
4. Minutes of the RA – FA Youth Council meeting on 06/10/13 were received showing the extent of the really good work being undertaken by this enthusiastic and talented team.
5. Goal line technology in the Premier League / Wembley – this has not yet been used to adjudicate a goal in any game but the match officials are comfortable using the equipment.
6. IFAB Update – Neale noted the imminent change in structure of the work done to feed into IFAB; this being a positive move towards more transparency of operation.
7. Coloured Referees’ Shirts – there was a CFA clear preference to stay with black shirts. CFAs to be encouraged to enforce the ‘no dark shirts’ for teams rule.
8. There was a CFA clear preference for a promotion administration fee – it was agreed that CFAs would have the option to charge a fee, within a range, to be refunded if the promotion process is completed (regardless of whether promotion is achieved) or in extenuating circumstances.
9. It was noted that the Referee Regulations need amending in respect of reclassification appeals.
Next meeting – 12 February 2014
The minutes from the national Referees’ Association Extraordinary General Meeting and Annual General Meeting, plus a copy of the updated constitution, can be found below.
With thanks to Mal Davies for his findings from the news…
Alan Wiley discusses incidents from games last weekend
Webb calls for tougher racism stance
Mark Halsey to retire and join BT Sport and also here
FIFA : Referee trios for Confederations Cup : 15th to 30th June 2013 in Brazil plus more here and here
MLS : Paul Rejer comments on a difficulty an AR has in his role
MLS : ‘Referee Week’ — an introduction
FRANCE : Referee error in shootout. Team offer to replay the semi-final. Replay granted.
HOLLAND : Player accidentally tackles referee
ITALY : Racist chants halt Milan game. Roma fined £42,000. Blatter unhappy.
SPAIN : Spanish shuffle officials as calls for higher standards get louder
First Lady Board Member
The election process was carried out in accordance with the rules of the Association and the votes cast were counted on 16 April 2013 by RA Board members Albert Astbury and John Starkey and Head Office Staff. The resulsts are:
The RA have now supplied us with further information about the updated Physiocare insurance.
Two levels are available, priced at £25 and £35, depending on the number of sessions you wish to be covered for.
For more information, please download the IPRS Physiocare leaflet 2013.
It is with sadness that we have learnt that the wife (Rosemary) of our ex-President, Colin Fawcett, died on 28 March 2013. York RA sends our regards to Colin and family.