Craig Thomson (referee)
Craig Alexander Thomson ( born June 20, 1972) is a Scottish football referee who exercises this office since 1988. He comes from Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Career
Thomson is an attorney specializing in construction and engineering law. He is a referee since 2002 in the Scottish Premier League, and his first game in this league was the match between FC St. Johnstone and Hibernian on 12 May 2002, which won Hibernian 1-0.
Thomson is a FIFA referee since 2003. His first international game for FIFA was the 1:4 defeat of Northern Ireland against Norway at Windsor Park, Belfast on 18 February 2004. Flashy His next game was the World Cup qualifying match between Faroe Islands and France in Group 4 on 8 September 2004, where he directed Patrick Vieira of the field, winning the French 2-0.
In his home country, he led the final of the Scottish League Challenge Cup 2006 between Ross County FC and Clyde McDiarmid Park on November 12, which County won on penalties after extra time ended 1-1.
He was selected to be present at the U -21 Football Championship in 2007 in Holland. There he spoke in the group match Belgium against Israel on 13 June in Abe Lenstra Stadium against the Belgian Marouane Fellaini in the 18th minute a yellow card and red card. Despite the reference field Belgium won 1-0. After that he was no longer used at the tournament.
At the 2008 European Championships in Switzerland and Austria Thomson acted as the fourth official there.
In 2009, he led the Scottish Cup Final between Rangers and Falkirk. In the final of the Scottish League Cup final in 2010 between Glasgow Rangers and FC St. Mirren Thomson directed the two Rangers player Danny Wilson and Kevin Thomson of the field. More games under his direction were the friendly match France - Spain on 3 March 2010, as well as some Old Firm games.
On 20 October 2010 Thomson broke the European Championship qualifier Italy - Serbia after just seven minutes off due to riots in the audience. Italy was awarded a 3-0 victory later of UEFA. The following month, the Real Madrid player Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso erwirkten in a UEFA Champions League game purposely second yellow cards to serve out their lock in the meaningless game against Auxerre. Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho countered that the players wanted to be sent off and criticized Thomson's performance.
In the final of the Scottish League Cup 2011 Thomson Rangers said to a penalty, but then changed his decision. Rangers manager Walter Smith called this action "dangerous". In the Old Firm of the season 2010/11 Thomson spoke Celtic seven minutes before the end, a penalty to.
Thomson was selected for the 2012 European Football Championship.
Inserts at the 2012 European Football Championship
Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey ) | Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain ) | Jonas Eriksson ( Sweden) | Viktor Kassai (Hungary ) | Björn Kuipers ( Netherlands) | Stéphane Lannoy (France) | Pedro Proença (Portugal ) | Nicola Rizzoli (Italy ) | Damir Skomina (Slovenia ) | Wolfgang Stark ( Germany ) | Craig A. Thomson (Scotland ) | Howard Webb ( England)
Were used only as a fourth official: Marcin Borski ( Poland) | Tom Harald Hagen ( Norway) | Královec Pavel (Czech Republic ) | Viktor Shvetsov (Ukraine )
- Football referee (Scotland )
- Born in 1972
- Man