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Fitness Information
:: Fitness Tests in the United Kingdom: How fit does one have have to be to gain promotion? What distances do you have to run in the fitness tests? Use this page for information on fitness tests in the UK [view]
:: Preparing to Exercise: Warming your body up is an essential part of pre-match preparation and training as it prepares your body for action and improves your performance. This page will ouline warming-up techniques and practices. (See the 'How to stay injury free' page for advice on how to avoid injuries. [view]
:: How to stay injury free: This page outlines the importance of warming-up and gives advice and information on how to stay free of injury. This mage also contains very useful training guidelines. [view]
:: Preparing to Exercise: Taken from 'A Guide to Fitness for Referees' April 2001, produced by the Football Association England. Outlines the effects that fitness training has on the body. [view]
:: Assistant Referee and Fitness training programme: An excellent guide to the training of referees to act as assistants, which also can be used to improve fitness. [view]
General Advice and Training Material
:: The ABC of Conflict: A very comprehensive guide to help the referee ensure that he is safe on the field of play when conflict occurs. [view]
:: Bad Language Mapping: This page gives a guideline on how to deal with bad language (Offensive, Insulting or Abusive language). With interpretations of the Law and possible ways to deal with dissent and/or bad language. [view]
:: Decision Making on the Field of play: This article offers an insight into the process of decision making by Referees on the field of play. It also explores psychological preparatory work that the Referee can employ with himself to help his decision making capability - particularly in those situations where it is impossible for the Referee to make a correct decision, or where a decision is equally applicable to both teams at the same time! [view]
:: Diffusing Dissent: The aim of this page is to make Referees think about ways they can diffuse dissent on the field of play. It is important to note that the advice given here, is not necessarily the ‘official line’, but nevertheless, is used by many Referees when controlling players.
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:: The Fourth Official: The aim of this page is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the Fourth Official's role. On this page you will find an extensive listing of what a Fourth Officials responsibilities are - this is dependant on which duties the match Referee wishes to assign to the Fourth Official. [view]
:: All material courtesy of Julian Carosi, The Corsham Referee Training Website. If you would like to use this material on your website, please first ask the permission of Julian. Click here to email Julian.