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For the first time since 1938 there will be no British referee in the World Cup Football announced on Thursday FIFA, which unveiled the 36 members and 63 participants will be in Russia 2018.
Among the 36 referees, from 46 countries, chosen by the highest level of world football, none will represent the federations of England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. North . Mark Clattenburg, the only judge on the list established by FIFA in the summer of 2016, who led the finals of the European Championship this year between Portugal and France (1-0), left the Mid-season last place in the Premier League Becoming the new chairman of the Referees' College of Saudi Arabia
The English Football Federation (FA) has asked FIFA to replace Clattenburg by another Premier League referee, but the body chaired by Gianni Infantino rejected the request.
British refereeing was represented in the last two World Cups, in 1945 and in South Africa in 2010, by Howard Webb, who led, not without controversy, the eight-year final between the # 39, Spain and the Netherlands (1-0).
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