Peter Foakes

Peter Foakes (11 September 1946 – 18 September 2006) was an English former football referee in the Football League and Premier League. During his time on the List he was based in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex and was by profession a teacher.

Foakes did not become a Football League linesman until the age of thirty seven in 1984. However, it then took him just three more years to graduate to the full Referees List.

His first few years of officiating culminated in taking charge of an FA Cup quarter final at White Hart Lane between Tottenham (the eventual Cup winners) and Notts County. He officiated regularly in the former League Division One and was therefore an unsurprising choice for the new Premier League in 1992-93.

Over the next two years he handled a number of matches at Premier level. However, he was approaching retirement age and was not included on the reduced Premier League list of referees for season 1994-95. He reverted exclusively to the Football League where he had a strong profile of games. The Football League also granted him a Coca Cola Cup quarter final tie between Swindon Town and Millwall in early 1995. In April he handled the Associate Members Cup Final between Birmingham City and Carlisle United. In front of seventy six thousand fans at Wembley, the Midlands side won with a "sudden death" goal in extra time by Paul Tait - the only instance of an English professional Cup Final ending in this now discontinued manner.

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