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A referee from Read gave fellow officials their marching orders after landing East Lancashire's 2014 most improved junior referee accolade.


Clarets fan Oliver Robinson has only been officiating for eight months aftercomplet- ing a course at the Lanca­ shire FA.


- The 15-year-old’s first Ribble Valley Netball Club are


£ champions of England after winning the National Club Fi­ nals in Sheffield.


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The squad, based at Oakhill College, beat Tameside 23-22 in a thrilling final to claim the national crown. The road to glory started


last September, where the girls were up against strong


<,£- Manchester teams in the re­ gional phase, with the goal to


. ® get to the national club finals weekend, where the two top teams from the nine different


England Netball regions would battle it out for the title. The girls recorded their


first success over Wilmslow in October, and then beat Oldham and Trafford before Christmas. Earlier this year, their


unbeaten record continued against Chester and War­ rington, before beating B ury in the semi-finals, earning a final against Tameside. This was played at Man­


chester Thunderdome, ahead of Manchester Thunder’s game against Leeds.


It was a closely-contested


final, with Tameside working strongly to turn the ball over. However, the Ribble Rat­


tlers squad showed great com­ posure on court, leading from the start to take the Regional Winners title 38-35.


LastSaturdaysawthegirls travel to Sheffield, and they


producedstrongperformanc- es, earning wins over North- ants (31-7)1 London Academy (31-12), Elmdon (31-11), and Team Jets (26-12), taking them through to the Sunday games where they would be battling


for placings one to six in the country.


Two fantastic wins over


Eastwood (19-11), and Woodley (26-13) saw the girls celebrat­ ing reaching the final, where they were again up against


their north west rivals Tame­ side. A strong start by the rat­


tlers saw them three goals up in the first few minutes, how­ ever, the lead alternated be­ tween the teams, and, going into the last quarter, it was 19-


19, and 22-22 with a minute togo.


Composed play from their


centre pass took Ribble in front 23-22, but Tameside came back to take a shot in


the dying seconds, and the ball


bounced off the ring and out as the hooter sounded. Coach Sara Thompson


said: It was a welhdeserved win. 1 knew they could do it and was confident that any­ one that went on court would rise to the challenge. But be­ hind them, supporting them all the way were parents, team managers and coaches. Huge thanks to them all.”


game in charge was an Under 9's match in Haslingden but he's since attained his level eight badge - the highest the teenager can achieve - and risen through the ranks. Oliverhasbeenanassist-


ant referee at the Under 15's East Lancashire School’s fi­ nal at Brockhall, officiated Blackburn Rovers Academy games, appointed as an as­ sistant referee at Nelson FC's Victoria Park for an Asian Cup qualifying match, as well as regularly refereeing . youth matches on Sunday’s. His dad, Chris, said: “Ol­


iver is very highly regarded in the refereeing world. His greatest achievement so far was refereeing on his belov­ ed Turf Moor for a charity match last week.”


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