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Keith Hackett

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Keith Hackett
Full name Keith Stuart Hackett
Born (1944-06-22) 22 June 1944 (age 78)
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Other occupation General manager
Domestic
Years League Role
0000–1975 Northern Premier League Referee
1972–1976 Football League Linesman
1975–1976 (Supplementary List) Referee
1976–1992 Football League Referee
1992–1994 Premier League Referee
International
Years League Role
1981–1991 FIFA listed Referee

Keith Stuart Hackett (born 22 June 1944[1]) is an English former football referee, who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield, South Yorkshire area in 1960.[2] He is counted amongst the top 100 referees of all time in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).[3]

Keith is currently the president of non-league club Penistone Church FC.[1]

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposite team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is considered the world's most popular sport.

Referee (association football)

Referee (association football)

In association football, the referee is the person responsible for interpreting and enforcing the Laws of the Game during a match. The referee is the final decision-making authority on all facts connected with play, and is the match official with the authority to start and stop play and impose disciplinary action against players and coaches during a match.

Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its southern suburbs were transferred from Derbyshire to the city council. It is the largest settlement in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

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Career

He reached the Northern Premier League and became a Football League linesman in 1972. Three years later he advanced to the Supplementary List of referees and one year later in 1976 to the full List at the age of only thirty two. He made progress and in 1979 was senior linesman to Ron Challis in the FA Cup Final. The next season, he took charge of an FA Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Liverpool. The match required a replay, which he also handled, but that ended all-square as well, and two further replays were required to separate the teams.

The following season saw him step up to the ultimate domestic honour of the 1981 FA Cup Final at Wembley, finishing 1–1 between Spurs and Manchester City. Aged only thirty six at the time, he was one of the youngest Cup Final referees. Tommy Hutchison of City scored both goals, causing the game to go to a replay, which Hackett also refereed at Wembley, the game ending 3–2 to Tottenham.[4] He was then appointed to the FIFA List for the following season of 1981–82.

He was then appointed to the 1984 Charity Shield match, in which Everton defeated Liverpool 1–0, courtesy of a Bruce Grobbelaar own goal. In 1986, he refereed the League Cup Final, where Oxford United beat QPR 3–0, thus winning their only knockout trophy.

Internationally, he was a match official at the 1988 European Championships, in which he took control of West Germany's 1–1 draw with Italy in Group A on 10 June at the Rheinstadion.[5]

Hackett also officiated at the 1988 Olympic Football Tournament, handling the semi-final between Brazil and West Germany, which Brazil won on penalties following a 1–1 scoreline after extra time.

He refereed the 1990–91 league encounter between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford, a match notorious for the 21-man brawl breaking out just after the hour mark. The melee resulted in Arsenal being docked two points and Manchester United one by The Football Association, upon a three-hour consultation with Hackett and his match officials.

He continued to be one of the senior English referees, even after his retirement on age grounds from the FIFA List at the end of 1991. Although he reached the English retirement age at the end of the 1991–92 season, he was granted an extension and was one of the first set of Premier League referees for its inaugural 1992–93 campaign. He was granted another extra season on top of this before retiring just short of his 50th birthday in 1994.

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Assistant referee (association football)

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Ron Challis

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FA Cup

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Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Islington, London. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 league titles, a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 16 FA Community Shields, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club, commonly referred to as Man City or simply City, is an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system. It founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , then Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester, to which they moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. Manchester City adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894, in the first season with the current name. Since its inception, the club has won eight league titles, six FA Cups, eight League Cups, six FA Community Shields, and one European Cup Winners' Cup.

FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération internationale de football association is the international governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: CAF (Africa), AFC, UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF, OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL.

1981–82 in English football

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FA Community Shield

FA Community Shield

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Everton F.C.

Everton F.C.

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Bruce Grobbelaar

Bruce Grobbelaar

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In retirement

He later worked as a referees' assessor before, on 1 March 2004, he was appointed general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, replacing Philip Don.

Hackett has also worked to promote knowledge of refereeing via several publications. He published his own book, Hackett's Law; a Referee's Notebook![6] in 1986.[7] And he continued to provide the answers for cult classic cartoon quiz You Are The Ref, drawn by sports artist Paul Trevillion, which he has done since the 1970s - originally for Shoot magazine, and then for The Observer newspaper.[8] He co-authored a book with Trevillion celebrating 50 years of the strip in December 2006.[9] And from August 2008, The Observer's collection of You Are The Ref strips appeared online at guardian.co.uk.[10]

In early 2007, Hackett also produced a DVD-ROM with Trevillion called Referee Academy, for use in the training of match officials, with sanction from the FA, the Football League and the Premier League.[11] During the 2007–08 season, he also wrote a regular column in the matchday programme for Crystal Palace and now writes for caughtoffside.com.[12]

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Philip Don

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You Are The Ref

You Are The Ref

You Are The Ref is a British comic strip which has run in various publications since 1957, featuring a series of improbable hypothetical football scenarios that then invites the reader to make the refereeing decision. Created by sports artist Paul Trevillion, also famous for Roy of the Rovers, the strip features contributions from several top referees, and was collected into an official book in 2006. From 2006 to 2016 it featured online on theguardian.com. and in The Observer newspaper.

Paul Trevillion

Paul Trevillion

Paul Trevillion is an acclaimed sports artist, whose career spans over 70 years.

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The Observer

The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.

The Football Association

The Football Association

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Premier League

Premier League

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2007–08 in English football

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Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace Football Club, commonly referred to as Palace, is a professional football club based in Selhurst in the Borough of Croydon, South London, England, which competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football. Although formally created as a professional outfit in 1905, the club's origins can be traced as far back as 1861, when an amateur Crystal Palace football team was established at the Crystal Palace Exhibition building. This has led to claims by the club that Crystal Palace should be recognised as the oldest professional football club in the world, after historians discovered a lineage through the Crystal Palace Company. Both the amateur and professional clubs played inside the grounds of the palace, with the professional club using the FA Cup Final stadium for its home games until 1915, when they were forced to leave due to the outbreak of the First World War. In 1924, they moved to their current home at Selhurst Park.

Source: "Keith Hackett", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hackett.

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Further Reading

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Mark Halsey

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Martin Atkinson

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References

Print

  • Football League Handbooks, 1972–1975
  • Rothmans Football Yearbooks, 1976–1994
  • Keith Hackett (1986) Hackett's Law, Collins Willow
  • Gilbert Upton (2005) Football League and Premiership Referees 1888 to 2005, Soccerdata

Internet

  1. ^ Birthdate confirmation Archived 15 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine: zerozero.pt; Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  2. ^ Profile at TheFA.com Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  3. ^ "IFFHS Dashboard". 10 April 2020.
  4. ^ 1981 FA Cup Final & Replay Reports from TheFA.com; Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  5. ^ Euro 88, West Germany v. Italy, Group A: zerozero.pt; Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  6. ^ Hackett's Law; a Referee's Notebook! ISBN 0-00-218076-6; Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  7. ^ Other mention Archived 20 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine of Hackett's 1986 publication. Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  8. ^ Article about Trevillion & Hackett's work together: Peterborough Today (Evening Telegraph); Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  9. ^ Review of You Are The Ref book: ISBN 0-85265-069-8 at The Guardian; Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  10. ^ Official site of You Are The Ref at guardian.co.uk.
  11. ^ Referee Academy Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine DVD-ROM, 2007: DownTheTubes.net News Archive; Retrieved on 2 April 2008
  12. ^ "Keith Hackett on caughtoffside.com".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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