Dealing With Negative Colleagues
When you’ve been practicing your mental toughness techniques, learning how to stay focused rather than being distracted by negative thoughts….
The Top 6 Questions Asked Of Resilience & Mental Toughness Practitioners
Although Mental Toughness and Resilience training is a growing field and many of the best referees benefit from using it, there is still a….
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The Refereeing Mindset For Fixtures Played in Challenging Conditions
Are you able to concentrate on refereeing, or does the weather or ground mentally affect your performances? Wind, rain, snow, excessive heat….
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Closing Doors & Cleaning Slates, Reflecting on Your 2022
When any year ends, it’s a period filled with a level of excitement in us that only seems to crop up at this time of year. Excitement for a….
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5 Routes to Higher Levels of Mental Wellbeing
For referees, the simplest approaches are often the most effective, and that’s certainly true when it comes to maintaining good levels of….
Controlling The Controllables As A Match Official
Refereeing can be such a relentless, ever-changing, fast-paced and unpredictable environment on the field of play, which can have a huge….
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The Relationship Between Mindfulness, Meditation & Mental Toughness
There is a tendency, as a referee, to be “tough” and put on a brave face no matter what, to push yourself through obstacles, such as making a….
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How Are Officials Influenced When Making Offside Decisions?
Referees are under a significant amount of pressure to make the correct decision when it counts. In fact, in a 90 minute game, officials make….
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Managing Your Emotions When Refereeing Rivalry Fixtures
Do you get psyched up for appointments to referee rivalry games, or does the hoopla surrounding derby fixtures cause you to feel pressure….
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What Does The Journey Of A World Cup Match Official Look Like?
Over the past 7 days, the 36 referees, and 69 assistant referees and 24 video assistant referees who have been chosen to officiate at the….
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Setting The Standard By Warming Up Well
What is your mindset at the start of a game? Do you tend to referee cautiously at the beginning of a fixture or come out of the blocks, very much on the whistle?…
How Can Match Officials Overcome SAD?
Following the United Kingdom’s annual move from British Summer Time (BST) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), up to 25% of the British population are facing….