Martin Atkinson

Martin Atkinson ( born March 31, 1971 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire ) is an English football referee. Since 2006 he leads international matches for the FIFA.

Career

Atkinson began his referee career in 1986 as a 16- year-old. His Erstligadebüt in the Premier League, he completed on 18 September 2004, 6th Round, Crystal Palace in the game against Manchester City. 2005 Atkinson was inducted into the English professional referees list " Select Group referees " and called 2006 FIFA referee. His first international game was the U19 Friendly Match Croatia against Greece (2-2 ) on June 1, 2007. He was head of the FA Cup final in 2011 between Manchester City and Stoke City ( 1-0). In the 2012 European Football Championship Atkinson was a goal judge part of the English referee trailer combination. On February 9, 2013, he led his 200th Premier League game at 3-1 between FC Southampton and Manchester City. It is divided into the highest UEFA Referees category " Elite Group".

After the game, Chelsea against Manchester United on 1 March 2011 in the Premier League, there was a confrontation with the Manchester manager Sir Alex Ferguson. This criticized not given a red card for the Chelsea player David Luiz and a controversial penalty decision for the London club, which led to a 2-1 draw. Then Atkinson should be used first eleven months did not more encounters with Manchester United until he should take over the game in the fourth round of the FA Cup against Liverpool on 28 January 2012. Ferguson, who disapproved already Atkinson's management of the FA Cup final in 2011, commented that he had wanted to, but did not get a "fair referee " him. Ultimately, Mark Halsey was the referee of the match, which Manchester United lost 2-1.

Atkinson lives in Wakefield and works full time as a police officer. He runs leisure moderately Exercising and playing golf.

Statistics

Notes: state of the list. March 28, 2013 The classification "x / y" to the left of the slash describes the number of missions in competition and right of the games in the respective corresponding qualification. The column " internationals " counts all of these in the A range on both friendlies and for WM-/EM- ( qualifying ) games.

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