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Graham Laws

Graham Laws
Full name Graham Laws
Born (1961-08-17) 17 August 1961 (age 55)
Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England
Domestic
Years League Role
? –1996 Northern Premier League Referee
1996– Football League Referee

Graham Laws (born 17 August 1961,Whitley Bay, Northumberland) is an English association football referee who operates in the Football League, and has previously been a fourth official in the Premier League. He has twice been to the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, as referee of a Football League playoff Final and at a Football League Trophy Final.

Graham Laws progressed through the lower leagues to referee in the Northern Premier League, before being appointed to the Football League list of referees in 1996.

He has been fourth official for Eddie Wolstenholme twice in big games, firstly for the FA Vase Final at Villa Park on 6 May 2001, and then in the Football League Second Division playoff Final in Cardiff on 27 May 2001.

He has been required, from time to time, to fulfil the role of fourth official in the Premier League, such as during the Newcastle versus Wigan match at St James' Park on 19 August 2006, when Martin Atkinson was the match referee.


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