How To Use Referee In A Sentence

The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time.
He has apologised for critical remarks he made about the referee.
With referees now bringing the ball forward for indiscipline, mouthy players can cost their team a game, not to mind risking a yellow card and even a sending off.
We only hope that the red card will be rescinded when the referee sees the video. Times, Sunday Times
The question of professional refereeing is an urgent issue that needs immediate attention.

He was petulant all day and was earlier booked for mouthing-off at the referee.
He was also something of a fiery personality, who liked to argue with referees, opponents and managers alike. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
Sometimes teams say we have a referee and linesman and we go on until they whistle. Times, Sunday Times
The game was stuck in the middle of the pitch for long periods as both teams cancelled each other out and the referee constantly whistled for minor offences stopping either side gaining momentum.
In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
It was blatant handball and the referee was close. The Sun
The referees and their assistants look like nervous wrecks before the match. Times, Sunday Times
A referee must know all the rules of the game.
The only goal in that game came in the 85th minute when Edgardo Codesal, the Mexican referee, awarded a penalty when Völler went down in the area; Andreas Brehme, who later said there was no foul, scored from the spot to win the tournament. The World's Greatest Whiners
The practice of throwing naartjies at referees is not encouraged, however, and could get you thrown out of the ground.
All I can say is that I'll certainly be expecting my men to get stuck in and it's up to the referee after that to decide what s a fair tackle and what s a foul tackle.
He refereed a basketball game yesterday.
Referee Declan Corcoran had a busy match, whistling for 45 frees and flashing no less than eight yellow cards in what was a very stop-start game throughout.
I read another article today concerning Luis Figo being sent off and exploding at the referee after seeing the card.
There is something intensely companionable about playing with three others in a confined space; a companionableness which extends to giving opponents a fair sight of the ball without intervention of a referee.
The referee hobbled off with a pulled muscle.
Some of the players claimed a penalty but the referee told them to play on.
Pat asked who was in a position to assess a referee from another county before his appointment.
It should really not come as a surprise when you have friends round for dinner and someone, gently, reminds you that you need two referees to support your Ph.D. application.
The unlucky bobble saw the ball hit Merris on the arm as he swung to clear and referee Phil Prosser pointed to the spot.
However, York ran into a bad period when lock Brad Macdonald was yellow carded and then, a few minutes later, long-serving lock Spanton was sent off in a hotly disputed incident as the referee penalised him for stamping.
The referee's nerve, eyesight or ability to keep up with the play lets him down after a while.
Referee Clive Owen pointed to the spot without hesitation, to the dismay of the Lismore crowd.
Moreover, recognising his encyclopaedic knowledge, academic journals often invited him to act as referee. Times, Sunday Times
The referee had to add on over five minutes in each half to allow for balls to be retrieved.
Must referees take a harder line or should the excitement continue unchecked? Times, Sunday Times
The Referees Committee was formed at a meeting attended by 17 referees with three excused, but to date there are still two referees who have not answered the call, or indeed, signified their intentions, one way or another.
My teenage son is preparing to embark on referee training. Times, Sunday Times
The referee has given a penalty.
Before the game, the referee tosses a coin. The team captain who wins the toss has the right to throw-off. And the other term captain has the right to choose ends.
Playing the referee is part of playing the game. Times, Sunday Times
The referee made an unfair decision.
The thing that could easily be changed is the stubborn refusal to let technology play a part for referees. Times, Sunday Times
He had words with the referee after the game concerning the foul that led to the second goal.
There was no doubt that the referee had gone by the book .
The refereeing is much looser and more impressionistic, even at an academic press. Cooked Books « Isegoria
The French referee awarded a total of 34 penalties in a game which saw the lead change eight times, several sin binnings, a sending-off and a player hurling his gumshield at the referee in disgust.
The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
Australian referee, Stuart Dickinson, was unsighted, however, and awarded France another penalty.
They held firm until an assistant referee flagged for a penalty that defied belief.
There's a few tasty challenges going in here, but the referee's kept his cards in his pocket so far.
The fourth official heard the commotion and reported the incident straight to the referee. The Sun
Her knee is in bad shape from an injury she sustained the night before while refereeing a hockey game.
He was determined to apply himself with the same diligence which was the hallmark of his refereeing.
Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud. Archive 2004-06-01
The referee awarded a free kick to the home team.
It was the 11 th of the season for a man who is no stranger to the referee's book.
This season, each player on the women's hockey team had to pay $125 each to cover association fees, tournament fees, referees and timekeepers.
His 30-yard free kick flew over the bar but the referee ordered the kick to be retaken for encroachment and moved the ball 10 yards forward.
For all the work of the match referees and umpires, it was always the players who would have to lead the way. Times, Sunday Times
Ajet's header under pressure had put him in between the two last defenders, but referee Mr L. Williams spurned the chance to play advantage and whistled for the foul on the provider.
After a scrappy start, both teams settled down with York producing a series of incisive moves, all of which collapsed either at the whistle of the referee or their own indiscretions.
Both players traded blows in the middle of the field behind the back of the referee but in full view of both linesmen.
The problem is not referees but football. Times, Sunday Times
The equity of the referee's decision was accepted by everyone.
Referee Mark Russell awarded a penalty against Dooley, but made no mention of it in his report.
On the surface, the term stood for two contradictory allegations: referees were afraid to call fouls when they should, and referees were calling fouls too quickly and intimidating teams from playing aggressive defense. Getting Open
Along comes a referee intent on making peace but instead of getting both sides to kiss and make up the peacemaker only exacerbates the situation.
I can't help having a whinge about the referee though.
With two teams of referees on the field there will be no shortage of expertise on the rules of the game.
The referee tossed a coin to decide which team should kick off.
At the commencement of the tournament it was made clear that referees had been instructed to apply Laws 18 and 19.
The referee was accused of being partial .
He was also something of a fiery personality, who liked to argue with referees, opponents and managers alike. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
But I think it's outrageous that he has been forced to retire from refereeing.
"Disgraceful" and "shocking" were two of the repeatable words used as fans screamed abuse at the referee.
As millions will have seen, by courtesy of the slow motion re-runs, the referee made a mistake.
The penalty ordered by the referee was in dispute by one of the teams.
Appeals generally don't go against the linesman or referee and they can be looked at in so many different ways. The Sun
The referee should be able to enforce a substitution when a player has committed an act that was reckless but not intentional foul play. Times, Sunday Times
This might be a result of an agreement between club presidents made in early May that none of them would corrupt referees and attempt to fix matches.
There's Valerie, looking like a fierce little referee in a striped tank; Kristin, still looking sex-starved in a leather dress and bedhead; and Nicholas, looking like Ellen DeGeneres with a five o'clock shadow! Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
Hoyle and Bruce were spoken to by the referee after an altercation in midfield, but following the free kick Bruce kicked out at Hoyle in the penalty area.
When the referee made a decision there was no crowding round him, no voices yelling in his face.
O'Neill was declared the winner after a recheck with the match referee.
As he came on, Rocky got a great reception from the crowd and a yellow card from the referee.
The last thing Leeds need right now is podgy referees overruling linesmen and giving seriously dodgy goals against them.
What on earth the referee had done to incur such mindless, moronic abuse, one can only hazard a guess.
Don't referees constantly do spots where they're distracted by a tag wrestler trying to enter illegally? PWTorch.com
Some referees however are just not up to the pressures of refereeing a top match and they should be removed.
The referee turned one last time to face the last competitor, the dark fighter from before.
However, the incident was spotted by referee Mike Riley who sent him off for violent conduct which carries with it an automatic three-match penalty.
Moyes is the referee, which is just as well as the fixture generally has a bit of needle to it: the veterans needing to continually reassert their prowess over the younger generation.
But there are plenty of times in this odd mismatch when Seligman the referee is the most absorbing person in the ring, not least when he's encouraging himself to make the most of Sontag. Odd Couple
A referee only makes a judgement based upon his opinion.
Coaches are always yelling at referees, remarking on their visual impairments and attention deficit disorders.
Clarets chief Cotterill was smarting after seeing referee Colin Webster ignore his side's appeals for two late spot kicks after Ian Moore had already missed a late penalty.
But the fight was stopped by the referee, after conferring with the ringside physician, at the conclusion of the round.
And he has also reported that one of his assistant referees was hit on the leg by a half-full plastic bottle. The Sun
He was ten or 15 yards away and gave the goal, then the assistant referee flagged for an alleged handball offence.
That it will undermine referees and stem the flow of the game. The Sun
When referees make contentious decisions players are going to be upset, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.
Silent enim leges inter arma," he wrote, which loosely observes that referees can swallow their whistles in a tough match.
Fortunately, the referee stopped the scheduled eight-round contest after three rounds, awarding victory to Valley.
If the referee had two red cards, he should have shown them both. Times, Sunday Times
Already, we've got presumptuous soccer powerhouses in flames; clotheshorse managers who appear to be angling for invites aboard Valentino's yacht; referees under siege; and unforgettably melodramatic acting. Now Appearing in South Africa: Les Mis
He is an experienced referee, mature. Times, Sunday Times
That's why I am frequently called on to referee the All-Female Poetry Slams that are held around New England as fund-raisers for what A.J. Liebling disparagingly referred to as “the quarterlies”, the high-brow, low-revenue publications that pluck drops of verse from the torrent of poetry that is showered on them, providing them with a brief, mayfly-length existence, before they are recycled at one of the region's many picturesque do-it-yourself town dumps. The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale
The Samoan team lodged a formal protest after the referee sent off the wrong player.
However much fans call referees' eyesight into question, the men in black won't waver because, according to new research, referees are simply a breed apart.
Both chairmen saw their sides suffer at the weekend when refereeing decisions went against them.
His subsequent dive is utterly preposterous, but the referee doesn't book him.
Referees are often criticised for ducking the cameras after matches and now we know why. Times, Sunday Times
We can find out about games played, tries scored, goals kicked, brothers and fathers, referees, captains and so on.
The referee said there was no malicious intent. The Sun
Yet Kompany left the floor with both feet raised and City will not be encouraged when they reflect on the case of the Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Nenad Milijas, whose sending-off at Arsenal last month prompted widespread criticism of the referee Stuart Atwell but ended with the player losing his appeal. Players descend to Twitter spat over Vincent Kompany red card
At the start of the third game the referee informed her that she had been docked another point for dissent and bad language.
The referees to whom he proposed to assess the damages due for the meadow declared that about three desyatins [a desyatin is about three acres] of the meadow had been damaged, and the fine they considered right would be ten rubles per desyatin. Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood
The difference made to the scoreline by refereeing error? Times, Sunday Times
During the match assistant referee Andrew Halliday was felled by a hurled coin and bottles were thrown.
That evening the referee's bank balance swells with thousands of dollars, his reward for fixing the biggest soccer match in the world for a criminal betting syndicate.
You have to chance your arm a lot and go for it to the point of playing the referee as well. Times, Sunday Times
The referee didn't call a goal kick for the Stingrays, but instead called a corner kick in favor of Riverside.
Danish referee Kim Nielsen immediately produced the red card, indicating that Delgado, who was booked earlier for time-wasting, had dived.
United believe accepting the charge reduces the risk of Rafael's one-match ban being extended but the player's behaviour was condemned today by the former Premier League referee Jeff Winter. Ravel Morrison's Manchester United future hanging in the balance
The referee should also whistle immediately if any player in the scrummage is lifted off his feet or is forced upwards out of the scrummage.
Referees are under strict instructions to deal with this sort of thing. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly, under the supervision of the referees, the androids were unpiled. Blue Adept
The referee ordered Johnson off in the second half for kicking another player.
The referees smiled and more often than not called out to the contestants to complete the race.
The referee got a lot of stick from the home fans.
These are, I take it, all referees below the Panel and those who officiate countrywide at some 2,000 games a week.
The left back was also sent off for protesting with the referee after being substituted. Times, Sunday Times
Danny was one of the best Gaelic football referees in the county.
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
Four eyes are better than two, but won't doubling the number of referees dilute their quality? Times, Sunday Times
The second-half started with Colin Nish somehow remaining unpunished by referee Calum Murray for all but decapitating Alan Maybury, but it was symptomatic of Kilmarnock having more aggression about them.
For the second time in as many games, goals which should have stood were disallowed thanks to some disputable refereeing.
The referee's late decision appeared to be an act of sympathy for last season's Dr Martens League champions, who had in some instances been wasteful in front of goal, in others denied by an inspired Kennedy.
Phil Vickery wiped his feet on a couple of opponents, and received a lecture from the referee.
It seems churlish to criticise referees, but his second half performance had to be seen to be believed.
The count had only reached four before the referee decided he had seen enough and summoned immediate medical attention.
In all fairness, we often criticise the referee, but he definitely made a boo-boo that day.
His punishment was fittingly double, for not only did the referee see and declare the foul, but the big Palatine came with such impetus that he knocked Heady galley-west. The Dozen from Lakerim
Earlier, Danny Masumba's goal that would have made Celtic take the lead in the first half was disallowed in the 44 minute with the referee signaling it was an offside.
The rogue gave the master of the college as referee, but in view of his story, the bank opened the account and collected the cheque without making enquiries.
Referee Tony Perez reached five in the count and the bell couldn't save Ellis.
Broad's tactic was outlawed because the umpires and match referee think it is unacceptable gamesmanship. The Sun
The only thing that matters is when the first bell goes and the referee counts to ten. Times, Sunday Times
He jabbed his fingers at the referee. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, the visitors, like York, were not playing particularly well - though neither side were aided by some fussy refereeing by Mike Dawber, whose whistle-blowing often added to the disruption.
The referee's decision to give a penalty raised the temperarure of the match.
I remember when I was a young boy, 1 April fell on a Saturday, so the Football League decided to create a 'hilarious' jape by sending referees and linesmen with thematically linked names to the same game," recalls Robin Tucker. The Knowledge: April fool! | Scott Murray
The match referee's report did not mention the incident. Times, Sunday Times
Then the referee dismissed a Sports player for foul language and it fired up the visitors who scored twice, and in the end it was Swarthmoor who had to hang on to save a point.
Referees generally officiate in their domestic leagues.
The referee warned the players to mind their language.
Let's hope the referee sees sense and overturns his decision.
We only hope that the red card will be rescinded when the referee sees the video. Times, Sunday Times
So condoned biased refereeing is also ‘part of the game?’ The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
As it happened, with better refereeing Hearts could have been one goal up at half-time.
The assistant referee signalled that the cross had curled out of play before hitting the woodwork.
Eight matches were lost due to the referee problem and two because of unseasonal weather, getting the season off to a dismal and difficult start.
When you hear that Collina is refereeing you think you won't have to worry about that.
Where there was the slightest doubt - as there usually is - the referees erred on the side of caution. Times, Sunday Times
Yet all this training, apparently, is still failing to produce referees who meet our exacting standards. Times, Sunday Times
Superior passing and movement allied to a couple of home decisions from the referee meant that England lost control in the first half.
The additional assistant referee was standing five yards away but was unmoved by Celtic pleas. Times, Sunday Times
The ball becomes live when it leaves the referee's or umpire's hands on a jump ball.
the referee awarded a free kick to the team
Only because of woeful finishing and ropey refereeing, though. The Sun
Much to the annoyance of the crowd, the home team seemed to be on the receiving end of the referee's whistle. Times, Sunday Times
But there were no more than the usual howls for a foul to the referee. Times, Sunday Times
Too much effort has gone into each team's preparations to allow a game be decided on a poor decision by a referee.
The judges included footballers, a referee and a rhythmic gymnast. Times, Sunday Times
Just when victory seemed within grasp, the referee blew his whistle.
Club rugby in New Zealand is played at breathtaking pace, and there is an unwritten code that anyone taking cheap shots will be dealt with by the opposition, and not by the referee.
Mazibuko stepped up and buried the ball in the back of the net but referee Daniel Bennet ordered the re-take.
In order to obtain better results, there were five judges instead of three, and the ABA Secretary Eddie Gray, an AIBA Referee / Judge himself, refereed the bout.
And that's truly the "harm" here, and why a referee is needed to call the "foul. Art Brodsky: Fox Steps Over the Internet Line; But There's Nothing To Be Done
The referee played on but Crooks instantly clattered Connell to give Cummings a dead-ball chance from 25 yards which he wasted.
Athletics and horse racing have photo finishes and a rugby referee can refer a try to a TV umpire. Times, Sunday Times
The referee didn't allow them to play as both the jerseys looked alike under yellow light.
They call this keeper 'The Crazy One'The tradition of the madcap Latin American goalkeeper began with Peru's "El Loco", Ramón Quiroga, memorably booked in the opposition half by officious English referee Pat Partridge during the 1978 finals. Truth takes a battering in the great World Cup cliche game
Under advice from the linesman, the referee awards a free-kick to AC Milan about 40 yards out for no apparent reason.
He couldn't resist a dig at the referee.
Mr Dick has also refereed female teams and believes the ladies are far more polite than the men.
After consulting with the linesman, the referee gives the goal despite animated protests from the furious German team.
It was an outrageous act and what was really upsetting from my point of view is that the referee did not look at it.
He was not the only player to do that, of course, nor even the only player in the Italy team, obviously, but he was by far the most irritating offender, primarily because even after the referee made his decisions, the gawkish saltimbanco harangued his supposed aggressor with all the righteous indignation of a nun in a knocking shop. The Guardian World News
Top of the list of Rathvilly errors was over-carrying, which the referee whistled for time and again.
The referee's whistle came not a moment too soon and the celebrations began.
The major gripe by referees was the fact that the apparatus they were asked to carry was heavy and cumbersome.
A frustrated Ord was then ordered to leave the visitors' dugout and squirted the referee with a water bottle before swearing at young supporters on his way to the changing-room.
Andy is a strong character and he will come through this but my worry is the impact this will have on refereeing recruitment.
These guys are going to kill a lot of babies by anoxia to test a wild idea," warned grant referees for the National Institutes of Health. Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness
In my opinion the referee killed the game. Times, Sunday Times
Folkestone boss Neil Cugley ran on to the pitch to support his players, who surrounded the referee, while a small number of Folkestone fans ran to the sidelines and shouted abuse at the official.
I just want the referees to be fair. Times, Sunday Times
The referee made a sweeping gesture with his arm over the prostrate figure of the white fighter.
I am very disappointed the referee let that happen. The Sun
Police say they have rounded up the ringleaders of a gang that tried to bribe players, coaches, referees and officials. Times, Sunday Times
Some referees will make that call, some referees will not make that call. Times, Sunday Times
The referee stepped in because the game had started to get a bit physical.
Glennon and Holmes reared up on the referee: ‘We're not going to be dictated to by television,’ Glennon told him.

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