Books and Videos for Self Study

Two books that you should always have near at hand are the current editions of The Laws of the Game and the Palo Alto Regional Referee's Handbook. The Region will provide you with both of these. Beyond these, however, there is a wide choice of other materials. Collectively, they are quite expensive, and few referees who are not instructors have more than a couple of them. This is a great pity.

In order to make this material more widely available to local referees, Palo Alto AYSO has worked with the Palo Alto Library to stock the Palo Alto Main Library with a wide range of books and videos on soccer refereeing. This page describes the current holdings in enough detail to help you decide which one to check out next.

To find this material at the Library, look under call number 796.334, or search the catalog by topic ("soccer refereeing" or "soccer 'rules'") or by title or author.

Books

• Use of the penalty mark and judging challenges [videorecording]
• Fair or foul : the complete guide to soccer officiating / [Paul E.] Harris, Jr.] & [Larry R.] Harris.
• The referee's referee : becoming the best / Abraham Klein, Rubi Shalev ; as told to Paul Harris.
• Linesmanship : the art of enhancing a referee's performance / by D.C. Emerson Mathurin.
• For the good of the game / Robert Evans, Edward Bellion.
• Laws of the game.