Howard Webb: biography of a football referee

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Howard Webb-a former English football referee. Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Webb officiating career in the English Premier League began in 2003 and lasted 11 years. In 2014, arbitration in football, Howard Webb decided to finish.

Brief biography

Born Howard Webb in Rotherham on 14 July 1971. By profession he was a COP. In 1998, Webb worked his first judicial career match. It was a match of Football conference games which he refereed for two seasons.

Howard Webb biography

From 2000 to 2003, Howard worked as a referee of a Football League. From the 2003/2004 season to the end of his career, Webb was a referee in the top division of English football – the English Premier League. After a year of working in the Premier League Webb was awarded the title of FIFA referee.

Biography of Howard Webb's full of controversial moments. The judge made many obviously bad decisions that changed the course of the game in favor of one of the teams. In one of the Premier League matches between the London «Chelsea» and «Manchester United» Howard Webb awarded a penalty in gate of “Blue” for a foul outside the penalty area, and at the end of the match Javier Hernandez, aka Chicharito, scored a goal from offside. But even all the mistakes of the referee cannot put under doubt the fact that Webb is one of the best judges in the history of English and world football.

Howard Webb is Manchester United

Now Howard Webb lives in South Yorkshire with his wife and three children: Jack, Lucy and Holly. He works as a Sergeant in the police Department.

The final of the UEFA Champions League

At the end of may 2010 Webb was appointed chief judges of the final match of the Champions League. In that match he participated Milan «inter» Munich «Bavaria». The game was held in the capital of Spain at the stadium of the football club «real Madrid» called «Santiago Bernabe”.

The Match ended in victory for the Italian team with the score 2:0. Controversial moments in the game was not. Webb has refereed a match at the highest level, showing three yellow cards. Two “yellow card” was the German team of Martin Demichelis and mark van Bommel. Composed «inter» yellow light before him he saw defender Christian Kivu.

Howard Webb

The final of the 2010 world Cup and the FIFA world Cup 2014

2010 was the best in the career of Webb. After the Champions League final he was on the list of arbitrators, who got to the world Cup in South Africa. In mid-July, Howard worked, perhaps the most important match in his referee career – the world Cup final. Howard Webb became the first English judges who judged the finals of the world Championship as the main referee.

On his appointment to the decisive match of the tournament, Webb found out three days before the match. In that match there were two of the strongest European teams: Spain and the Netherlands. For the match Webb showed the players of both teams a total of 14 yellow cards and 1 red, thereby setting a new record for the number of cards in the final match. Before this the rich is a warning on the final was played in 1986, when the players have 6 cards.

For the first half of the game the referee “awarded” three cards of the Dutch (van Persie, van Bommel and de Jong) and two Spaniards (Puyol and Ramos). In the second half with a 54-to 57-th minute the cards got the van Bronkhorst and Heitinga. During the second half of the game the referee showed another “shot” for both teams.

Howard Webb soccer

Five yellow cards saw a the players in the second overtime. For Heitinga she became the second and transformed into red, and the player was forced to leave the field prematurely.

In 2014, Webb went to Brazil to officiate the matches of the world Cup. Unlike the previous world forum Howard was not appointed to key matches of the tournament. Just for the 2014 FIFA world Cup he has refereed two games. His debut match was the group stage match between Colombia and côte d'; Ivoire. The second game, where he worked for Webb was the match between the home team and national team Chile in the 1/8 finals.

Statistics

Just for a career Howard Webb has refereed 368 of the games that showed 1116 yellow and 49 red cards. Thus, in an average match, he showed the players more than three yellow and 0.13 red cards.

The Largest number of matches (47) Webb spent in 2005/06. He showed the players 117 yellow cards and removed seven players. The following season Howard has seized on 4 matches less, but a yellow card was shown 151 times, and red – 9.

Howard Webb

His first red card Webb showed the player "Southampton" Michal the Svensson in 2003/04, which was the debut for the referee. In the second season he has shown 5 red. The greatest number of deletions Howard Webb conducted in 2003/04 and 2006/07 – nine.


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