- 27 May 08, 05:08 PM
Popular comic strip You Are The Ref, which has been produced by artist Paul Trevillion for half a century, will be part of BBC Sport's Euro 2008 coverage.
Trevillion, who began creating his drawings as a teenager standing behind the goal at matches, started his career with The People newspaper and has also worked for Shoot! magazine and The Observer newspaper.
Trevillion's art, which has become hugely popular with football fans who have been entertained and informed by it, will be a part of BBC Sport's Euro 2008 blog.
Users of the blog will be able to suggest topics for Trevillion to cover, and also discuss the scenarios he depicts with the man himself, with BBC journalists, and amongst themselves.
You Are The Ref poses unusual refereeing dilemmas for the reader, who have to put themselves in the shoes (or boots) of the match officials and come up with answers to various scenarios, testing their knowledge of some of football's weird and wonderful laws.
For the last 39 years, top officials have helped provide the answers to the situations, with Premier League referees' chief Keith Hackett now playing a vital part in its compilation.
A more detailed profile of Paul Trevillion can be found here.
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I should add that the first You Are The Ref cartoon will appear here in the week starting 2 June. So start limbering up!
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It's definetely got to be the Czech Republic
it's a shame rosicky or nedved ain't there though
the final will be between Czech and Spain
the score will be 2:0
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Whichever country is least anti-english. I suppose i will cheer on Germany, they are the most like us out of the bunch of them and I think the german fans have a mutual respect for the english fans. Germany went through a similar introspection after euro2000 when they failed to leave the group stage.
But really I'm not bothered who wins, I have lost interest in international football because of our current England team. They are a disgrace to the shirt.
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Alex,
That's a wonderful idea to include Trevellion's work in the blog. I'm thoroughly looking forward to it.
Cheers,
The Gaffer
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You are refereeing a big local Derby - you have already missed a shocking challenge by the visiting striker on the opposing captain. You award a dubious penalty for a challenge on the very edge of the box and dismiss the home defender. The visiting captain reminds you to send the defender off and the non-dismissed striker nets the equaliser. You follow this up by allowing the aforementioned (non-dismissed) striker to handle the ball in the build up to another offence in the penalty box. Injury time looms and the home side are attacking - there are 2 incidents - in the first the home defender poleaxes an opponent and in the final seconds of the game repeats this within 5 yards of your vision, whilst just to the right of you an attacker is similarly held back by an opponent. The question is - how do you get to remain on the Premier League list with a performance like this?
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Beat The Ref was great in Shoot magazine! I remember one about a goalie who deliberately threw the ball in an attackers face. Can't remember what the verdict was (should the goalie be sent off or not) but the drawings were fantastic; the goalie was a spitting image of Ray Clemence and the strikers face was all mushed up and looked like Bob Latchford! Hope Paul will draw some caricatures of players again!
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I'm looking forward to the return of you're the ref. I used to love in Shoot many, many years ago.
By the way ToffeeDan, it isn't good when refereeing decisins go against your team. however, referees are only human and unti the powers that be introduce aids for them then there will be mistakes. (thought LFC deserved to win though!!)
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You are the ref ?????????
Talk about old fashioned outdated concepts.
Jesus what next for the Bumbling BBC black and white coverage of games to give that nostalgic feel, Or Kenneth Wolstenholm Recanting tales of watching paint dry.
It is 2008 when will the BBC cotton on to the techno/Video/CD/Computer age ?
A cartoon of you are the ref ? Please tell me this is a joke. Are they serious ?
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MUFC10XPremChamps - this is definitely serious, though there is no plan to revert to black and white on TV as far as I know...
What we are doing is taking an old (and timeless) concept and making it truly interactive for the first time. That to sit alongside all of our other high-tech offerings for Euro 2008. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I feel confident from the comments already in that it will appeal to plenty of people, young and old, technically adept and less so.
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well yes rwr which is why I posed the question in such a way!
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I hope people are generally interested in this refereeing blog.
and not to beat the ref - like toffee Dan - who just wants to bash Mark Clattenburg.
As a B'ham we had some mistakes against us - K stroud v Sunderland - and we had a gift from Mr Styles...
I hope to see the positive side of refereeing on this blog site and what a great hobby I have - those that are critical of referee's try it and see it can be very rewarding.
to foward to seeing the blog develop over the next few weeks.
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MUFC10X
You're the ref obviously was around before 1992 when football really began in Mancherter!!!
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Always one of the highlights in Shoot! when I were a lad...
My failing memory is that a lot of strips related to broken cross-bars and burst balls. I'm not sure how this relates today with ball boys having specially prepared dry balls for long throw-ins and blatant obstruction "shepherding the ball out of play" being allowed.
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Nice one ToffeeDan. Such a shame your flippant humour was wasted on a couple of sorry folk.
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Not spamming (and hopefully of interest)....
..I am redesigning my site ratetheref.net ready for Euro 2008. I am sure there are going to be some unbelievable refereeing... hopefully not to many from Howard Webb!
I wonder if we will have a repeat of Graham Poll producing too many yellows for one player!... surely that'd make a good sketch!
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The best bet for an answer to any of the questions was ' Award an indirect freekick and book the offending player for unsporting behaviour' .
(e.g. a player without a number on his back is fouled by a bootless team-mate before play commences, thus bursting the ball)
Anybody else remember some classics in this vein ?
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Hello Alex,
A bit of a strange question but now Stan Collymore has joined Talksport who is going to replace him for Euro 2008. Hopefully you will opt for Sir Jimmy Armfield he is a legend.
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As a former Grade 1 Ontario Referee, the one thing that disturbs me is that the encroachment Law is never applied. I would like to see the situation similar to rugby wher a player is immediately required to retreat from a penalty situation. When a free kick is called, any player who advances towards the ball to prevent the kick being taken quickly MUST be yellow carded. A team has committed an offence under the Laws, it cannot be allowed to gain an advantage by preventing the kick from being taken. One warning from the referee of "ten yards", if not immediately adhered to will be met with the punishment it deserves.
I refer you to the "broken window" policy adopted by New York City where small crimes such as illegal parking, grafiti, fare dodging on public subways, etc., were punished. This led to a drastic reduction in major crimes. The same applies to soccer. Let's get the cheats out of the game and not disguise cheating by calling it professionalism. It is not. It is purely and simply cheating and cannot be disguised.
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