Bartley John Homewood (1932 – June 1991) was an
English former
football
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referee
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in
the Football League and for
FIFA
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. During his time on the List he was based in
Sunbury-on-Thames
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,
Surrey
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.
Career
Homewood reached the Football League referees List in 1966. Just two years later he was senior
linesman to
Leo Callaghan
Leo Callaghan (5 February 1924 – 8 January 1987) was an association football referee in the English Football League. He was also a Welsh FIFA referee.
Career
Callaghan was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He made the Football League refere ...
in the
FA Cup Final between
West Bromwich Albion and
Everton at
Wembley. Four years after that he was appointed a FIFA referee.
†
He remained an international referee for the last seven years of his career. He took charge regularly of top division games but was never appointed to either of the two major Finals. He did referee at Wembley though for the 1976
Charity Shield match between
Liverpool and
Southampton. He took charge of a number of European club ties, the most significant being a
UEFA Cup third round match between
Stuttgart
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and
Dukla Prague in November 1978. Six months later one of his final matches was a
European Championships qualifying match between
Hungary and
Greece, to reach the final stages of the 1980 tournament.
Hungary v. Greece
European Championships Qualifying Group match, 1979: ''RSSSF'' website. He retired at the end of that season ( 1978–79).
References
Print
*Football League Handbooks, 1966–1970
*Rothmans Football Yearbooks, 1971-1979 (†1972 edition, p60)
*Romeo Ionescu (2004) The Complete Results & Line-Ups of the UEFA Cup 1971–1991, Soccer Books Limited
*Gilbert Upton (2005) Football League and Premiership Referees 1888 to 2005, Soccerdata
Internet
English football referees
People from Sunbury-on-Thames
1932 births
Year of death missing
English Football League referees
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