Nick Walsh (referee)

Nicholas Walsh (born c.1991)[1] is a FIFA referee and currently a referee in the SPFL.

Nick Walsh
Full name Nicholas Walsh
Born Scotland
Domestic
Years League Role
2013– Scottish Professional Football League Referee
2013– Scottish Football Association Referee
International
Years League Role
2018– FIFA listed Referee

Refereeing career

Walsh's first Scottish Professional Football League game as a referee came at the beginning of the Scottish League Two campaign, when he oversaw Clyde against Queen's Park.[2]

Walsh took charge of his first top tier match in 2016, when he officiated a match between Ross County and Partick Thistle on 9 April, a team he supported since he was a boy [3]

Walsh was added to the FIFA list in 2018 and is now an international referee. He replaces Craig Thomson as his 15-year stint as a FIFA official comes to an end.

Personal life

Outside of football nick Walsh is a PE teacher at Boclair Academy in Bearsden.[4]

gollark: It's not hard technologically. It's hard to make people move.
gollark: I say that in the sense that it's an interesting idea more than that I've actually used it and like the community and such.
gollark: Mastodon is neat, it's federated.
gollark: I would host a mastodon instance or something, but nobody uses that and I don't really think my selfhosted setup is stable enough to run stuff like that off.
gollark: I don't like Discord because it's closed source and a proprietary platform.

References

  1. "Referee Nick Walsh set for first Scottish Premiership game". FootyFanatic. Adam Higgins. 6 April 2016.
  2. "Clyde 3 – 0 Queen's Park". Scottish Professional Football League. 24 August 2013. Archived from the original on 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. Dowden, Martin (9 April 2016). "Ross County 1 – 0 Partick Thistle". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. "Scottish FA referee visits the Newlands store". Specsavers. 15 January 2018. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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