Peter Walton in the headlines

Evening,

Catching up on some of my regular referee sites / blogs and found this Pitch Invasion blog / podcast,  featuring in episode 7 Peter Walton, ex-EPL referee now General Manager of the North American Professional Referees Organisation (PRO), a newly created role / structure to develop USA referees. 

Peter and myself, Kanga Cup 2010

Peter was a Kanga Cup special guest / referees mentor in 2010 and U/11 Referee - yes, Peter filled in on a midweek game at UC when someone didn't show, heading out onto a Small Sided game in his Air Asia tacksuit. I was reliabily told the parents were more excited about the referee than the 10yo players.

The podcast by Peter Wilt and Tom Dunmore covers the following topics with Peter.
Structures, professional US referees, future vision, best practice, culture of football, some Olympic insights, Womens refereeing in USA.

Give it a listen

Peter also gave a web interview to ESPN earlier in July, also worth a look

And there was a web conference / Q&A in March hosted by USSoccer if you want even more.