1.   He is a qualified football referee for the Dorset County Football Association.

2.   Bill Cosby has an old comedy routine in which he plays a football referee at the coin flip before the Battle of Little Big Horn.

3.   A burly man in a dark suit, he wore a necktie that sported cartoon figures of a football referee flipping a coin and two players calling the toss.

4.   Fans shout and sway their upraised arms like a squad of football referees.

5.   Football referees have not previously gone on strike, although officials in other professional sports, including baseball and hockey, have.

6.   The sleepy little town is disrupted, however, when a high school football referee is murdered after the homecoming game.

7.   A Libyan football referee beaten during a soccer riot in Libya that killed a reported eight people said Friday he is well, and thanked his supporters.

8.   Local football referee Nourredine Terkhi dropped dead after being punched by a player of the Ain Boudinar Club in a West Algerian league clash against Stidia.