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Referees - Contents of your Kit Bag

1. Two of each shirts; one long and one short sleeve, badge, shorts, socks, boots - one moulded and one with screw in studs to suit conditions.
2. Assistant referees flags
3. Match Card
4. Laws of the Game Book
5. Football pump with two adapters
6. Boot polish kit
7. Towel/toilet bag - including elastoplast strips to cover ankles
8. Tupperware box which contains all the essentials

  • Two whistles on lanyards each with different tones - very useful to use different tone of whistle from a colleague refereeing on the nearest pitch
  • One spare whistle in a pocket
  • Always use a whistle on a lanyard strapped to your wrist
  • Two wrist watches - one running normally and the other on stopwatch in countdown mode.
  • Two notebooks plus red and yellow cards
  • Six pencils and pencil sharpener
  • 2p in coins
  • Pressure gauge
  • Stud adjuster
  • Spare laces (black & white)
  • Tie ups
  • Pen knife (with bottle opener)
  • Black tape/sellotape
  • Stud gauge

    9. Travel with: -

  • Phone Card/Mobile Phone
  • Handful of ten pence pieces
    You may have cause to ring about the match on route.

    JOHN SCANLON
    SENIOR REFEREES ASSESSOR
    © FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND






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