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TECH AND SELF-CRITIQUE ARE KEY TO BETTER OFFICIATING

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
29 September 2019

Football MATTERS
PART 2: FA CHIEFS EXPLAIN THE CHANGING VISION OF REFEREEING

COMPOSURE: Referees must be mentally strong
PICTURE: Edmund Boyden

AS part of The NLP’s regular series with The Football Association, we sat down with National Referee Development Manager Daniel Meeson, Senior Referee Manager Peter Elseworth and former Stevenage player turned official Farai Hallam, who is also Senior Referee Officer at the governing body.
NLP: We saw at the training weekend you showed clips of good and bad refereeing practice. An interesting dynamic was the fact the referee in each situati...

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