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Long-serving Ray receives fitting reward

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 May 2019

Long-serving Ray

WORTHY RECIPIENT: Ray Lewis, right, and NLP editor in chief David Emery
PICTURE: Stuart Tree

FORMER referee Ray Lewis has witnessed things that most football fans would struggle to imagine – and his efforts have now been recognised with The NLP Lifetime Achievement award.
The 75-year-old, from Great Bookham, collected his award at The National Game Awards after becoming a Football League official more than 50 years ago.
During his career he reached the dizzying heights of refereeing the first FA Cup semi-final to be held at Wembley and awarded the free-kick from which Paul Gasco...

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