Worcester Referees

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Please see the details of a fantastic guest speaker, coming to us in February. Non Worcester RA members are also welcome to attend with prices below. Secure your tickets early to avoid missing out #grassroots #farefereeing #WorcestershireFA #refwatch #mikedean

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This Wednesday 👇👇
Free development session. Hope to see lots of you there.
#referees #WorcestershireHour #grassrootsfootball #WorcestershireFA
#farefereeing #Worcester

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We then finished the morning with a short outdoor practical.
Our gratitude as always to WFA RDO Jack Shepherd and our Training Officer Paul Sparrow for another fantastic session.
Many thanks to Paul and his company " Clean as a Whistle " who kindly sponsored the event.

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Today we held our latest Worcestershire FA / Worcester Referees Society Half Term Junior Core Development Group meeting.
We analysed video footage from the recent Youth WFA County Cup Finals and tested ourselves with the Laws Of The Game. #WorcestershireHour
#farefereeing

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(2/2) This is only the 2nd time in the Society's history that 100 members have signed up for a season.
Meetings are held every 3rd Thursday in the month, at the WFA Headquarters in Claines Lane Worcester. #worcestershirehour #referees #grassroots #WorcestershireFA

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(1/2) New Referee Dave Boddy seen here with the Tim Phillips Memorial Gavel, bringing our February Monthly Meeting to order. Dave recently re sat the Laws of the game after a 30 year absence from Refereeing
Dave was also the 100th Member to join the Society for the current season

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This week we welcomed former Fifa match official and now Referee Coach Phil Prosser to our meeting. He spoke about his career and his new role within the game which was informative and engaging. We thank Phil for joining us and giving up his time. #referees #WorcestershireHour

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Our final three Referee Courses for this season still have places available on each. For anybody interested in @WorcsFA & @HerefordshireFA, get in touch now! 👋

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Ollie Wood opened our December meeting where Paul Sparrow delivered a training session packed with incident filled clips which sparked debate and conversation amongst our members. Our next meeting sees us host Phil Prosser, referee coach and observer⚽️ #grassroots #referees #wfa

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Our next session is coming up just after the turn of the year. Please note the slightly different timings. @WFAHFARefs ⚽️#grassrootsfootball #refereeing #worcestershirefa #WorcestershireHour

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November's meeting was opened by member Phillip Earl. Paul Sparrow fronted training on Cautioning Technique and got everyone thinking with some Laws of the Game questions. Wayne Hanson provided us with an update on all things Worcester League. Next Meeting: Thursday 19th December

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(3/3) Paul has attended many training courses & prepared sessions for WFA/HFA new referee entrants.
He has delivered monthly events at our Society, providing thought provoking evenings which have enabled many of our referees to become better match officials as a result! @WorcsFA

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(1/3) On behalf of everyone connected with Worcester Referees Society I would like to congratulate our Training Officer Paul Sparrow who over this weekend became a fully qualified FA Registered Training Tutor.
Paul attended a two day course at Warwick University over the weekend

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(2/3) We can all see how hard Paul has worked over the last 2 years and it means so much to him. Paul has passion and enthusiasm for teaching, especially younger referees, including when he leads our now established Junior Core Development Group meetings during half terms

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2023/2024 Worcester Referees Society Member of the Year
Jack Williams (middle) pictured today at our latest Junior Core Development Session.
Jack regularly attends our meetings and at the end of last season was announced as the youngest ever winner of the award. ⚽️ #refereeing

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Our next Free referee development session is taking place this coming MONDAY (28th) October. Please bring boots and refreshments. The session will run from 1:30pm till 4:30pm at Worcestershire FA. We will have a perfect mix of practical & indoor development #referees #development

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A superb evening enjoyed by all who attended. Very informative and hopefully an inspiration to many of our newer referees. ⚽️ #referees #WorcestershireHour #grassroots #PremierLeague #pgmol #farefereeing

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September's meeting saw Rav from @WorcsFA deliver a presentation about "Discrimination in Grassroots Football". We also took part in an Laws of the Game quiz with Paul which sparked debate & learning for all! Thanks to Moses Francois (below) for opening the meeting. #grassroots

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Our next Worcester RA meeting is this Thursday at 7pm at Claines Lane. See below Mike and Paul receiving their long service refereeing certificates last month ⚽️ #worcestershirehour #grassroots #football #farefereeing