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How amateur referees deal with sarcastic applause from frustrated players

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WSC contributor Ian Plenderleith runs a blog which discusses issues from a referee’s perspective, from penalty calls to angry spectators

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Photo of the week ~ Spotland, home to Rochdale

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From the archive ~ The loneliness of the short-winded ringer

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The life of a ringer is a strange one, though there’s always a place for you if are left-footed, as Roger Titford explained in WSC 45

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Badge of the week ~ Miscellaneous SC, Botswana

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This is what happens when a league uses up all the good names that everyone wanted and is left with a club without a name. In a hurry, the new club’s directors did what everyone in a bureaucracy does when faced with categorising something complex quickly, they called the club Miscellaneous and promised to change it to something more apposite later. 

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Pressure on patronised Hull to win relegation battle at mocked Sunderland

Mike Phelan stopped the Tigers’ rot with victory over Southampton before the international break and go into the crucial match as favourites

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