Around 18 would be a starting age for high level matches. But junior referees can learn the game. The reason most World Cup/ top league referees are quite old is because they need to prove themselves at every level before they move up.
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Amy Fearn was the first woman to referee a championship match.
Its there age.
Where ever the football is when the knee goes down or where ever the ball is when forward progress is stopped.
Football was invented in 1402 there would be two goals one in one town another severel kilometers away.There wasn't a referee and it was quite likely for someone to die.You could only play football between ages 38-40 yet children played there own FRIENDLY game of football with smaller pitches and most importantly a REFEREE
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