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Rebecca Welch turns into the primary lady appointed to referee a males’s Championship match as she prepares to takes cost of Birmingham versus Preston on Saturday.
Welch, from Washington in Tyne and Put on, already holds the honour of being the primary lady to referee an English Soccer League match when she led the workforce of officers for the League Two match between Harrogate and Port Vale in April 2021.
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Final 12 months, she turned the primary lady to referee an FA Cup third-round tie, additionally at Birmingham, as Blues misplaced 1-0 to Plymouth on January 8.
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Welch, nonetheless, shouldn’t be the primary lady to referee within the Championship. Again in 2010, Amy Fearn took cost of the ultimate 20 minutes of Coventry’s contest with Nottingham Forest within the second tier following a calf damage to the appointed referee, Tony Bates.
The 39-year-old Welch refereed video games on the Ladies’s European Championships over the summer season and likewise officiated video games within the Ladies’s Champions League and World Cup qualifiers.
Welch turned a professional referee in 2010 and continued her day job as an administrator within the NHS till two years’ in the past.
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