Keith Hackett - Refereeing at the top
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In a first for the UTD podcast, this week we have a referee, and not just any referee, former head of referees, Keith Hackett. For this one Sam & Helen are joined by Wes Brown who is filling in for Maysie.
In a career spanning from 1972 to 1994, Keith worked in the English Football League (and international football) as a linesman and referee. 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. Keith also refereed his last ever match at Old Trafford, a game between United and Liverpool.
Keith later worked as a referees' assessor before, on 1 March 2004, he was appointed general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL).
Today Keith talks about a long career refereeing at the top level of football, his relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson, as well as how the game is changing. Warning - VAR chat incoming!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, before we jump into this episode of the United Podcast, I do want to remind you that United are back on tour in the United States this summer. |
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| 0:11.0 | We're going to start on the 27th of July. We're playing Arsenal at the |
| 0:13.8 | Sophie Stadium in Los Angeles before we return to the Snap Dragon Stadium in San Diego to take |
| 0:19.1 | on Drell Betis on the 31st of July. Then we round off the tour facing old rivals Liverpool on the 3rd of |
| 0:25.0 | August at the Williams Bryce Stadium in South Carolina. If you don't want to miss the opportunity |
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| 0:33.2 | forward slash tour 2024 for tickets and register for further |
| 0:36.8 | updates. Right, let's do the podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | And so the game was flowing quite well. He suddenly exploded and I'm in Evans I'm West Brown |
| 0:56.9 | somehow that's somehow that's somehow that is our guest presenter Wes Brown getting Sam's name wrong. |
| 1:05.0 | People who have listened to the podcast before will know that that has happened. |
| 1:10.0 | Confused me in Harlem. |
| 1:11.0 | I did. |
| 1:12.0 | That's going to text him today. That's a juice though it. As who? |
| 1:16.4 | As who? We're just two big guys. Anyway, we are at Old Trafford. I think this is our first ever |
| 1:22.4 | podcast, correct me if I am wrong Sam in the Old Trafford studio? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, yeah, I can't think of a single one we've done here. |
| 1:28.0 | No. And we've got Wes Brown alongside us. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm just filling in for Mr May. |
| 1:33.4 | So, you're here because we want you to be here. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah, and you'll know this because you've already clicked on it, |
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