The result was Nomination withdrawn. No delete vote. PeaceNT 09:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
AFD WITHDRAWN I'll try to tidy up the substubs of referees that are only notable for one WCF game into one article when I get the time if others think that is a good idea? EliminatorJR 23:53, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Surely fails notability - ONE game refereed in a major tournament? Might even qualify for A7 EliminatorJR 20:42, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep If a player had played even just one match in the World Cup finals he would almost certainly be kept. There's no notability guidelines for referees but I'd suggest that being selected to ref in the world's biggest and most significant tournament qualifies him (and for information, somewhere in the region of half of the refs who are selected for each edition of the World Cup only get to ref one match) ChrisTheDude 21:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I'd say he meets notability, only one referee (and his assistants) on the FIFA list from any individual association can go to the World Cup Finals. Therefore FIFA and his own FA have judged him to be the best suited. He's been selected by the FIFA Referee Committee as one of the 40-50 possible and gone through the assessment stages to be in the final 20-30 for the tournament, therefore he was judged as arguably one of the top 30 referees in the world in that year. For example: of all the football referees in the world only 23 out of a suggested 40 were chosen for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[1][2]. He ref'd one match and lined for another in the tournament, became a committee member for the Confederation of African Football in 2002[3] and is currently a member of the FIFA Referee Committee.[4] - Foxhill 22:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]