THE REFEREE for this year’s World Snooker Championship final has been named – and he will be familiar to some for one moment of drama in the recent past. Stockport native Rob Spencer has been given ...

THE REFEREE for this year’s World Snooker Championship final has been named – and he will be familiar to some for one moment of drama in the recent past. Stockport native Rob Spencer has been given ...

The Lady is ITV’s latest mini-series, telling the gripping story of former royal dresser Jane Andrews, who was convicted of murder in 2001. The partly-fictionalised true-crime TV show will explore the ...

The Canada-Finland men's hockey Olympic semifinal on Friday has a curious pair of referees. That can't be an ideal setup for a clash that has a spot in the gold medal game on the line. Sure, there are ...

Czechia Olympic men's hockey coach Radim Rulik condemned referees for their officiating of Wednesday’s Olympic men’s quarterfinals between his team and Canada. Rulik spoke out after his team's 4-3 ...

Radim Rulik wants the referees to be put in Czech for the way they officiated Wednesday’s Olympic men’s quarterfinals hockey showdown. The Czechia head coach lambasted the officiating after their 4-3 ...

Czechia men's hockey head coach Radim Rulík is not happy at the moment. You could even say that he's furious following his team's elimination from the Winter Olympic Games at the hands of Canada. In ...

Referees now announce VAR decisions to stadium crowds and the television audience Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images Back in the day, there was a common saying about football referees: a good ref is ...

Being an NFL official may be an unforgiving job, but it's also a fairly lucrative one. While NFL referees are only part-time employees, the league pays them a solid chunk of change to perform the role ...

Leading up to Super Bowl LX, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell raved about the job officials have done for the league. “I’m so amazed at how good our officials are,” Goodell told an audience during Super ...

John Virgo, the legendary snooker player and commentator, has died at the age of 79. Virgo was one of the best snooker players in the world during the 1970s and 1980s, winning the UK Championship in ...