RateTheRef

Thanks AT. Alas I think very few people get rich from research on referees and refereeing - too niche a market I fear - but it's good to put the information out there. I've just started to add data from before 1992-1993 and it's much more straightforward as almost all the referees are standard officials with seven FIFA referees each time. George Courtney, Neil Midgley and Lester Shapter were three top referees who retired in 1992 just before "the big change".

The principle reason for me working on the spreadsheet was to make it easier to produce the list for a specific season which can be done by filtering the spreadsheet. For reference this is the list for 1992-1993 but it's possible to do this for any season it covers:

Alcock, Paul
Allison, David
Ashby, Gerald
Axcell, David
Bailey, Mike
Barratt, Keren
Bell, Stephen
Bigger, Ray
Bodenham, Martin
Borrett, Jim
Brandwood, John
Breen, Kevin
Buksh, Alf
Burge, Keith
Burns, Bill
Callow, Vic
Carter, John
Coddington, Brian 1
Cooper, Keith (P) 2
Cooper, Keith Arthur
Cruikshanks, I
Danson, Paul
Dawson, Alan
Dilkes, Roger
Don, Philip
Dunn, Steve
Durkin, Paul
Elleray, David
Fitzharris, Tom
Flood, Allan
Foakes, Peter
Frampton, David
Gallagher, Dermot
Gifford, Rodger
Groves, Ron
Gunn, Allan
Hackett, Keith
Hamer, Bob
Harrison, Paul
Hart, Robbie
Hemley, Ian
Hendrick, Ian
Hill, Brian
Holbrook, Terry
James, Mike
Jones, Peter
Key, John
King, Howard
Kirkby, John
Leach, Ken
Lewis, Ray
Lloyd, John
Lodge, Steve
Lunt, Terry
Lupton, Ken
Lynch, Kevin
Martin, John
Milford, Roger
Morton, Kelvin
Moules, John
Nixon, Bob
Parker, Jim
Pawley, Roger
Peck, Mike
Pierce, Mick
Poll, Graham
Pooley, Graham
Poulain, Richard
Redfern, Ken
Reed, Mike
Rushton, Jim
Scoble, Paul
Shadwell, David
Shepherd, Ray
Singh, Gurnam
Smith, Arthur
(Smith, Jeff)
Taylor, Paul 1
Trussell, Colin
Vanes, Paul
Ward, Tony
Watson, John
West, Trevor
Wilkes, Clive
Wilkie, Alan
Willard, Gary
Winter, Jeff
Wiseman, Roger
Wolstenholme, Eddie
Worrall, Joe
Wright, Philip

Jeff Smith (Stafford) was named on an initial list for 1992-1993 but not included in the season's Football League Handbook. He refereed no games in 1991-1992 (his first season), apparently due to injury. Presumably he hadn't sufficiently recovered and provides a rare case of a referee being appointed to the List but making no appearances.