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Refereeing Books & More
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Promotor and collector of all things referee. My book & magazine collection: https://www.libib.com/u/benbalin
Will do research too if you ask nicely 😉
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Refereeing Books & More @refbooks.bsky.social · Feb 4
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The #referee is Hugh Phillips (Scotland).
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#Hungary v #Netherlands, World Cup qualifier, October 1961.
The referee signals for the injured Reinier Kreijermaat to be treated off the pitch. From left to right: #EddiePietersGraafland, #ReinierKreijermaat, the referee, and #TonPronk.

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December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The #referee is Laurens (Lau) van Ravens (the Netherlands). His assistants are Leo van der Kroft (left) and Ad Boogaerts.
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Watch the Oldest Japanese Anime Film, Jun’ichi Kōuchi’s The Dull Sword (1917)
Watch the Oldest Japanese Anime Film, Jun’ichi Kōuchi’s The Dull Sword (1917)
Japanese which means 'to try out one's new sword on a chance wayfarer.' (The word is tsujigiri, literally 'crossroads-cut.') A samurai sword had to be tried out because, if it was to work properly, it...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Released on this day in 1979: Tears Of A Clown/Ranking Full Stop #TheBeat
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November 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Al in de jaren 60 was er een probleem met vuurwerk bij het voetbal. "Ik vind het misselijk," zei de Kuip-directeur in 1967 na Feyenoord - Arsenal. "Dit is een gevaar voor het publiek en de spelers."

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In de jaren zestig maakte het voetbal zich steeds meer zorgen over vuurwerk in de stadions - Sportgeschiedenis
Na de wedstrijd Ajax – Groningen is het probleem van vuurwerk in het stadion weer zeer urgent. Dat was het in de jaren 60 ook al. Vuurwerk bij Neurenberg – Ajax op 18 september 1968. Foto via het Nati...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Puzzle #904
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December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Six. Need a coffee. Filtrated, obviously.
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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And last but not least: these Xylaria hypoxylon, or candlestick/candlesnuff fungus or stag's horn fungus. They're very common, but I have never seen them guttating! Yes, those drops are not from the rain, that's guttation. Well, I think so anyway. Make me change my mind 😉
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Stag's horn fungus, aka candlestick or candle snuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) growing out of the side of a fallen and decomposing tree trunk. The fungus looks like grey or black sticks, forked and white at the end. Some have drops on them, possibly guttation (sweating).
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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On a moss-covered willow, I saw, in the fading light, these teeny-tiny (about 1 or 2 cm tall, with caps no more than 5 mm wide) Mycena pseudocorticola. I can imagine why some people call them fairy caps...
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Tiny, tiny mushrooms (Mycena pseudocorticola) sticking out of moss on a tree trunk. They're lilac coloured with a grey undertone... Tiny, tiny mushrooms (Mycena pseudocorticola) sticking out of moss on a tree trunk. They're lilac coloured with a grey undertone... Tiny, tiny mushrooms (Mycena pseudocorticola) sticking out of moss on a tree trunk. They're lilac coloured with a grey undertone...
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This strikingly bright fuchsia colour, white stem on green moss was today's stand-out find. It belongs to the Russula undulata or Russula atropurpurea, the purple brittlegill. And brittle it does appear, judging by that chunk taken out of the hood.
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Mushroom with thick white stem and fuchsia coloured hood growing out of green moss is a Russula atropurpurea or Russula undulata (purple brittlegill). Mushroom with thick white stem and fuchsia coloured hood growing out of green moss is a Russula atropurpurea or Russula undulata (purple brittlegill). A chunk has been taken out of the rim on the right.
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Now for the real colour. This common milk cap (Laccaria laccata) was of such a bright ochre colour I thought it could be a wax cap. I don't think it is, but I gladly stand corrected. Still nice to look at, though.
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Orange/ochre coloured mushroom, shiny, rising out of the forest floor, which is covered in fallen oak leaves. species: Laccaria laccata, or common milk cap.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Still quite a few clouded agarics (Clitocybe nebularis) about, all in the latter stages of life, with some huge specimens out there, like 30 cm across! This one showing its underside, which I liked better.
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Clouded agaric (Clitocybe nebularis) in a later stage of life, its hood all curled up to show its abundant gills. A creamy colour all over.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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There was also this mycena, which I was able to photograph under its skirts for a nice effect (yeah, I'm a perv).
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Another light coloured mushroom, likely a Mycena, photographed upwards from the ground so you can see the gills under the cap and the light shining through.
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Then there was this tiny Mycena galericulata (the common bonnet or common mycena), poking its body out of a rotting tree trunk.
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Tiny little light brown fungus, most likely a Mycena galericulata, or common bonnet, growing out of the side of a rotting tree trunk.
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Mushroom season is all but over, but I went out to find some after all. The haul was small indeed but there’s still colour to be found out there!
First up, this Imleria badia (or Xerocomus badius), the bay bolete.
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A brown mushroom with a very thick golden brown stem and a brown cap, most likely the bay bolete (Imleria bad or Xerocomus badius), surrounded by brown leaves on green moss.
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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From France and Belgium, four comic strip albums to add to my collection. Mostly about football and featuring the occasional #referee, but in one case ("Les Arbitres") all about #referees.
Book cover, comic strip album, title "Les Footmaniacs" (yes, it's French). The cover shows five football players from two teams, with one player celebrating a goal by pulling his shirt over his head and sliding along the pitch, not knowing he's about to hit the referee who's looking at his watch with the ball at his feet. This at the dismay of two team mates. Two players from the opposing team are snickering because they know what will happen next. Book cover, comic strip album, title "Le foot furieux" (again French). Showing a penalty area on a football pitch with five players in blue all about to shoot a ball each at the fearful looking goalkeeper. On the left, the referee pointing at the goal as a sign of 'go ahead'. Book cover, comic strip album, title "Foot en bd" (still French). The overall colour of the drawing is green, for a football pitch. The drawing as such shows a player kicking a referee issuing a red card between the legs from behind. There's also a ball lying nearby. Book cover, comic strip album, title: "Les Footmaniacs: Les Arbitres". It shows a scene on a football pitch which a wounded player on the grass. On the left, the burly and furious perpetrator is being held back by an anxious team mate from assaulting the referee, who is sure of his case being backed by two heavyweights dressed in black suits.
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#OnThisDay 30 Nov 1872 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Scotland hosted England for the first official international match in Glasgow

It finished goalless, but as a proof of concept, it pushed the game stratospheric

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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Puzzle #903
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The obligatory four colours group makes a new appearance.
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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It’s winter. With temperatures close to zero, only Finnish saunas feel steamy.
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Deliberate handball on the goal line; referee fouls Mike Doyle & more… watch these highlights from 50 years ago today (follow the link): gjfootballarchive.com/2025/11/29/w...
Watch These Highlights From 50 Years Ago Today!
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November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The #referee is Antonio Camacho Jiménez (Spain).
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Today at noon, the latest sporting lunchtime lecture at the Record Cafe, Bradford. And it’s free!
Roy Francis, Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader
Record Cafe, Bradford, Noon, 29 November 2025
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November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Puzzle #902
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Yay, the omnigroup returns! Purple by default, not a gambler.
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This is the match in September 1970. The #referee is Ferdinand Biwersi.
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM