| Bernie Raymond Blom, known as Kevin Blom (born 21 February 1974 in Gouda), is a Dutch football referee, who officiates for FIFA and UEFA. He has refereed in the Eerste Divisie, the Eredivisie and the UEFA Champions League. His home town is Alphen aan den Rijn.
His first match in professional football was the one between Go Ahead Eagles and Helmond Sport on 17 October 2003. In June 2004 he was promoted to the Dutch referees' A-list, allowing him to be a referee at international matches. As of 2020, he has retired as an international referee.
In 2005 Blom was awarded the "Sportsman of the Year" title by the municipality of Gouda. In 2007, he was awarded the Gouden Kaart ("golden card"), the Dutch prize for best referee of the year.
Blom is a full-time employee of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB). In addition to his employment as a referee, he works for the Association's referee education department.
Blom refereed the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying match between the Czech Republic and Scotland on 3 September 2011. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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guest 86.183.186.161 (  North Down ) 04-Sep-11 18:44
Totally incompetent! Re the Scotland match v Czech Republc on 3rd Sept 2011 he made two atrocious decisions - awarding a penalty to the Czechs when there was no contact (admitted afterwards by the diving player) and not awarding a penalty to Scotland when TV clearly showed contact. What was really absolutely disgraceful was when Berra of Scotland voiced his dissent at the decision Blom replied F... Off! This remark was also heard by other Scottish players. This refereee should be banned.
About 03-Sep-11 Scotland 2 - Czechia 2
guest 90.208.217.82 ( Lancashire ) 03-Sep-11 22:07
After todays Scotland v The Czech Republic game - this incompetent ----- should never be allowed to referee again. the man is a disgrace to football
guest 66.211.206.43 (  Pennsylvania ) 03-Sep-11 20:38
shocking 90 min [ Czec V Scotland ... needs to be a Stewards inquiry!!!
About 05-Nov-09 Roma 2 - Fulham 1
guest 80.225.123.98 07-Nov-09 14:06
his display on thursday night shows just how corrupt italian football has become. absolute joke, made me respect english referees a lot more.
guest 81.86.116.211 07-Nov-09 13:14
22-6 to fouls us against Roma, and we are the Premier League s most fair playing team! It s a complete joke. He played to Roma s rolling on the floor and wasting time, and whenever we were taken out by a Roma player he would tell us to get up!!! Plus he gave 2minutes added time which was ridiculous considering we had two men sent off for nothing challenges and Roma s time wasting. He should definately be investigated for something as that was the most dodgiest refereeing displays I have seen in years. Investigate him Uefa.
guest 212.183.134.130 05-Nov-09 22:48
Kevin Blom was shockingly bad tonight refereeing the Roma - Fulham match. The 2 red cards were harsh and should have been yellow cards at best.
Blom clearly was naive and fooled by the 2 Roma players rolling around the pitch acting as if they had been shot. Fulham should lodge an appeal against both red cards.
I suggest he not referee another Europa League match again as he negatively influenced the outcome of tonight s match.
As a neutral observer, Blom deserves a red card for his poor judgement tonight.
guest 84.104.39.22 06-Feb-09 20:05
good referee
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