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My take on Rebecca Welch's appointment is that, so far as appointments are concerned, Gender should be irrelevant and to bring it up, no matter how well intentioned, just reinforces the possibility that an official's gender becomes more of a talking point than the fixture to which they are appointed.
Rebecca, like many others is a National List Official and viewed, rightly or otherwise as capable of handling the match.

welch and Aspinall for promotion to prem?

Quote from: referee12 on Thu 30 Dec 2021 19:30

welch and Aspinall for promotion to prem?

They'd have to be promoted to SG2 first.

Natalie Aspinall already is SG2.

I could be totally wrong here, but isn’t Harrington from Newcastle? Just always had it in my head that he was?  He’s been given the Newcastle game which peaked my curiosity

Michael Salisbury has now replaced Tony Harrington at Newcastle. 

Why have Madley and Friend been swapped?

An evening in front of the TV for me this evening watching Swindon v Man City and Darren England. My word, someone is pushing England's career very hard at present. He is a Yorkshire referee isn't he so I wonder who on earth that might be ?

From the little I have seen of England, nothing live only on TV, I rather like his style and whilst on occasions he has displayed some naivety, particularly on positioning ( which perhaps is only to be expected when beginning at a new more senior level ) I have little doubt he will be ranking among the "big hitters" before too many more seasons on a career trajectory something akin to Paul Tierney's perhaps. A Match Observer and former FL referee, whom I know and whose opinion I greatly respect, rates England highly.