Non-League Paper

HACKETT’S STILL SO CARD HAPPY

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 July 2020

John Bradley
KEITH Hackett enjoyed a glittering refereeing career, but he never lost touch with his Non-League roots.
FORMER REFEREE HAS FOUND CHURCH

I CAN HACKETT: Keith Hackett is all smiles at Penistone Church, where he is club president, and, inset, calming things down during the 1981 FA Cup fi nal between Tottenham and Manchester City
PICTURE: John Bradley

Whether it was Football League, Premier League or Northern Premier League, the Sheffield-born whistler treated them all the same.
Now 76, Hackett is president of Northern Counties East Premier Division outfit Penistone Church. It&...

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