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Less than a week after Ashley Klein retained his mantle as State of Origin referee, the whistleblower has scored another win. Rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns has backed the decision to again appoint Klein the referee for the Origin opener, after he was recalled at the expense of Gerard Sutton …

An AAU coach and a referee got into a fight on Saturday. It’s a wild scene that was all caught on video by a parent. It looks like it starts when the coach shoves or punches the referee, who then squares up, correctly assuming the coach is going to want …

The Boston Celtics beat the Atlanta Hawks, 129-121, on Sunday to take a 3-1 lead in their first round series. As the game ended, Hawks guard Dejounte Murray said something to referee Gediminas Petraitis and bumped him. Murray then kept walking and yelled at someone else as Trae Young grabbed …

Aleksandar Mitrovic has been handed an eight-game ban after pushing referee Chris Kavanagh in Fulham’s FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Manchester United on March 19. The Serbia striker served the first game of his suspension in Saturday’s 2-1 Premier League defeat at Bournemouth and will now miss Fulham’s next seven …

A referee in the Democratic Republic of Congo had to flee for safety after the female team of DC Motema Pembe got very angry and attacked him during a match against TP Mazembe.   The male referee was reportedly attacked over poor officiating during the match. He was mobbed and …

Barcelona will not receive sporting sanctions after it was alleged that they paid the former vice-president of Spain’s Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), over €1.4 million between 2016 to 2018. That’s according to La Liga president Javier Tebas, who says that on “a sporting level”, it is not possible to …

Sunday’s game at Lambeau Field started off very poorly for the Minnesota Vikings as the Green Bay Packers scored on a kickoff return and a tipped interception in the first half. Things only got worse in the second quarter. Kirk Cousins threw another tipped ball interception that could have been …

Argentina vs France will have Szymon Marciniak from Poland officiating at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail on Sunday. The World Cup 2022 referee has taken charge of both finalist teams at the tournament so far, too, officiating France’s 2-1 group game victory over Denmark and Argentina’s last-16 win against Australia.  …

The Morocco FA has filed an official complaint to FIFA over the performance of referee Cesar Ramos after last night’s World Cup semi-final defeat to France.   The Atlas Lions were defeated 2-0 by Didier Deschamps’s side who ended their historic run at the tournament, with Morocco becoming the first-ever African side to reach the …

Samuel Eto’o has issued an apology after getting into a physical altercation with an Algerian YouTuber whilst in Dubai for the World Cup.    The ex-Barcelona and Chelsea striker was caught on camera kneeing a man as he filmed him while he left Stadium 974 in Doha where Brazil had just beaten South Korea 4-1 Monday …