“We don’t want to celebritise referees, but we want to humanise them,” says Howard Webb, chief refereeing officer for Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), while sitting pitchside in ...

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NFL referees have been under fire throughout the 2025–26 season. It has often felt as though officials were deciding games, leaving fans around the league calling for reform this offseason. While a ...

Body language expert Mark Bowden explains how World Cup referees use space, gestures, captains, cards, and VAR walks to ...

Referees, umpires and officials are essential to every game that is played in sports. The problem right now is finding enough of those people to keep the games on schedule while spreading the work ...

These are the opening lines to The Ref Didn’t See It! A simple sequence highlights both the thanklessness and importance of the referee in pro wrestling. Right after calling for the opening bell, ...

While it happens every year, it feels like the NFL referees were operating under a microscope during the 2025-2026 season. From the beginning of the season, when the tush push proved that it was ...

Referees now announce VAR decisions to stadium crowds and the television audience Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images Back in the day, there was a common saying about football referees: a good ref is ...

Such is the importance of match officials, I now check who has been assigned to each Newcastle United domestic fixture. Not ...

As the 2025-26 winter sports season comes to a close, here’s a plea to the people who scream at, taunt and harass referees, especially those working high school, JV and youth games. Please, for the ...

The new partnership will see Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa collaborate with Hollie Davidson, the trailblazing female Scottish official who continues to break new ground in global rugby. The collaboration ...