| Howard Melton Webb MBE (born 14 July 1971) is an English former professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League from 2003 to 2014, as well as for FIFA as a FIFA international referee from 2005 to 2014.
Webb is counted amongst the all-time top referees by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics and refereed a number of notable matches in England including the FA Cup final, the FA Community Shield and the final of the League Cup. In 2010, he became the first person to referee the finals of both the UEFA Champions League and FIFA World Cup in the same year.
Throughout his professional career, Webb drew praise for his authoritative and respected approach to refereeing from football bodies, pundits, colleagues, players and managers. He announced his retirement in August 2014 to become the technical director of the Professional Game Match Officials Board. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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About 05-Feb-12 Chelsea 3 - Man.Utd 3
football fan (  Sheffield ) 05-Feb-12 18:04
 inconsistant yet again penalty for the boys
About 11-Jul-10 Nth lands 0 - Spain 1
Debora (  Noord-Holland ) 12-Jul-10 11:00
Referees should be unpredejucided!!! It was a bloody shame how he whisled the finale yesterday. 11 yelleow cards,and 1 red for
Holland. But the violations of Spain where mystyriosly not seen...THE LAST GOAL WAS OFFSIDE!!!! Is he blind, does he need glasses, or does he not like us Hollanders? My friend is a referee with the K.N.V.B. in Holland, he s ASHAMED that a refree in such an important mach takes the side for witch country ever ; fairness is the goal! and ,mostly, fair, desent and IMPORTANT play. He was PREDEDJUDICICED!! your referee !!
Than you re the worst wone of all the referees,YOU MUST BE UNBIASED!!
** Otherwise you are not fit for your job.** It doesn mater that we dint win!!! BUT WE DID NOT LOSE FAIR!! He whisled for the benefit of Spain.And Holland was always the Degn with everything he had with lousy violations. I hope that you will reprement this sir Howard Webb, and will indicate him at him at his infamous arror. This is a bloody shame!!!
**The dutch team was much better**
We deserved the title and not the Spains, ...who laid down with every little kick they got. Witch Mr. Webb miraculousy did not see, or did just missed....
I thought English footbal was so touhg, so wining, keep on playing...but this pathetic referee could learn a lot of your TOP PLAYERS in England.
Please repremand this BIASED referee,and if he can not keep his feelings apart from one countree from an other country , he should not whistle a contest, or find another job.
A very dissapointend, sad, and angry DUTC fan
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