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Promotor and collector of all things referee. My book & magazine collection: https://www.libib.com/u/benbalin Will do research too if you ask nicely 😉 Amateur mushroom photographer

Small magpie (Anania hortulata) butterfly sitting on a stalk with purple flowers
Book and cards, all white with pastel lettering and illustrations of fungi
Book cover. Title: Michel Vautrot, Libre Arbiter. Image of Vautrot as a referee against a background of a yellow and red card
Book cover. Background colour is brick red. Title and author name in white lettering. Title at the top is “Soccer Refereeing”, author, underneath, is Denis Howell. Below that is a stylised black-and-white drawing of a referee and a player.
Holly blue butterfly on a turned leaf, surrounded by green leaves
Sitting on a tree leaf, a comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) shown from the side, its scalloped wings mostly closed.
Book cover. Primarily red, with black and yellow lettering and drawings. Title: A Lifetime of Soccer. Author: Peter Craigmyle, a pre-WWII Scottish referee. Graphics include a line drawing of the author and a football whistle
Book cover. Bi-colour, fluorescent green and bright blue. A head of an ageing bearded man surrounded by the title: About to Fall Apart. At the bottom, the author's name: Ashley Hickson-Lovence.
Book cover. Title: Football's Great War. Association Football on the English Home Front 1914-1918. Author: Alexander Jackson. Cover shows a football team posing for a photograph. Most are in football kit, black shorts and socks and white shirts, but they're surrounded by military officers.
Book cover. French-language edition of the laws of football for 2026/27. Dark overall with lettering, title and photo of out-of-frame female referee in bright yellow gradient.