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       4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: ATurner
       Date: August 13, 2021, 11:13 am
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       Could some kind person let me know where the 4 new referees are
       based please.I know Rebecca Welch is based from Washington Tyne
       and Wear but the other 3 I don’t know.
       This information is purely for my own records.
       Thanks in advance
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       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: tomp
       Date: August 13, 2021, 12:16 pm
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       Andrew Kitchen- Durham
       Simon Mather- Manchester
       Tom Reeves- Birmingham
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       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: AG1983
       Date: August 13, 2021, 12:48 pm
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       Tom will be a Birmingham FA ref, but unless he's moved since I
       officiated with him (which admittedly was when he was a level
       4!) he used to be based in Coventry
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       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: Whistleblower
       Date: August 13, 2021, 12:50 pm
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       It is my perception, the statisticians among our number can
       confirm or negate this, that the geographical centre of gravity
       for senior refereeing has been moving steadily in a northwards
       direction for some time now and doesn't appear to show any signs
       of swinging the compass round and being reversed.
       #Post#: 36175--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: greeny
       Date: August 13, 2021, 1:48 pm
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       It's definitely a noticeable bias towards the North.  In SG1,
       only Hooper and Scott are based in the South, while Atkinson,
       Bankes, Coote, Dean, England, Gillett, Harrington, Jones,
       Kavanagh, Madley, Moss, Oliver, Pawson, Salisbury, Taylor and
       Tierney all living in the North.
       #Post#: 36177--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: RCG
       Date: August 13, 2021, 3:27 pm
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       With only Coote of that list in the midlands. Not only is "the
       south" under represented but big towns/cities in the midlands
       lacking any top flight representation.
       Not so long ago Birmingham had 2 or 3 top level referees with a
       few more in the West Mids.
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       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: Claretman
       Date: August 14, 2021, 2:15 am
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       --- Quote from: RCG link ---
       >
       > With only Coote of that list in the midlands. Not only is "the
       south" under represented but big towns/cities in the midlands
       lacking any top flight representation.
       > Not so long ago Birmingham had 2 or 3 top level referees with
       a few more in the West Mids.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Andre Marriner is from Birmingham ( Dont forget him otherwise
       you will be on the naughty step, lol )
       and Stuart Attwell is a little further south, Kevin Friend
       residing in Leicester also.
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       Re: 4 new EFL referees
   DIR By: SuffolkRef
       Date: August 14, 2021, 2:26 am
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       --- Quote from: Claretman link ---
       >
       > [quote author=RCG link=topic=2754.msg36177#msg36177
       date=1628886464]
       > With only Coote of that list in the midlands. Not only is "the
       south" under represented but big towns/cities in the midlands
       lacking any top flight representation.
       > Not so long ago Birmingham had 2 or 3 top level referees with
       a few more in the West Mids.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Andre Marriner is from Birmingham ( Dont forget him otherwise
       you will be on the naughty step, lol )
       and Stuart Attwell is a little further south, Kevin Friend
       residing in Leicester also.
       [/quote]
       Also from the East Midlands is John Brooks.
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