Ray Chamberlain (born 5 September 1976), better known as Razor Ray, is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

field umpire in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

. Chamberlain was born and grew up in the

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and umpired his first Australian rules game as a teenager. He was offered an umpiring contract by the VFL in 2000 and promptly moved to Victoria, where he umpired in the VFL for four years before being offered an AFL umpiring contract. Chamberlain is noted for his sense of humour, often cracking jokes on the field. Chamberlain has been criticised by individuals such as coach of Chris Scott for a perceived lack of ability to perform a centre bounce, claims that Chamberlain has pushed back against. Chamberlain was selected to officiate in his first grand final on 25 September 2010, the drawn Grand Final between and . He formerly taught physical education at Victorian Public High School, Mordialloc College, where he was also a year-level coordinator. Inaugural inductee to

University of Canberra The University of Canberra (UC) is a public university, public research university with its main campus located in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The campus is from Belconnen Town Centre, and from Canberra's Civic, Australian ...

Sport Walk of Fame in 2022.

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Australian Football League umpires 1976 births Living people University of Canberra alumni 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub