England: David Ellcock takes a look at the role of the hockey match official for the England Hockey League
Most of you will be aware that there is a match official (MO), or as they often erroneously called, a ‘TD’, appointed to every English national league game, but what are they there for and what do they do? The MO’s role, at its simplest, is designed to take much of the pressure around running […]
England: How I became a Technical Official by David Rigby
For me, it all started at the conclusion of the Vitality Women’s Hockey World Cup in the summer of 2018 when in a moment of (drunken) madness I accepted an invitation to attend the annual “Plum Tournament” (a pre-season friendly event for National League teams) to learn about the role of a Match Official. “What’s […]
