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A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection.
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 ...
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.
The match referee makes no decisions relevant to the outcome of the game, but instead enforces the ICC Cricket Code of Conduct, ensuring the game is played in a reputable manner. The ICC appoints a match referee from its Elite Panel of Referees to adjudicate Test matches and ODIs. Minor cricket matches will often have trained umpires.
The referee makes no decisions regarding play; such decisions are the sole responsibility of the appointed umpires. Match referees are frequently former cricket players who have had distinguished careers on the field. Some notable match referees include Ranjan Madugalle, Chris Broad, Jeff Crowe, David Boon and Javagal Srinath.
Professional Referee Organization (PRO) is the organization responsible for managing the referee and assistant referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada, working alongside the United States Soccer Federation, Major League Soccer, the Canadian Soccer Association, the United Soccer League, the National Women's Soccer League, and the U.S. Open Cup.
And ultimately there is a referee to supervise that all are performing to the proper specifications according to the rules; and to make on the spot decisions when there is a controversial issue to settle. Within the United Kingdom, athletics officials are governed by UK Athletics, within the United States, the supervising body is USATF. [1]
A referee can show a yellow or red card to a player, substitute, substituted player, and to non-players such as managers and support staff. [100] [142] Rather than stopping play, the referee may allow play to continue if doing so will benefit the team against which an offence has been committed. This is known as "playing an advantage". [143]