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and there, he will meet hossein vafaei, who has made it to his first uk championship quarterfinal after. now, in football, you often see the transition from player to manager but not really from player to referee. vance warner played in the top flight of english football and roomed with david beckham as a youth team player. but for the last 13 years, he has dedicated his time to refereeing youth games and has just won an award for it. angela rafferty has been to meet him. sunday morning, nine am. a frosty, foggy, non—league pitch — not the place you'd expect to find a former premier league player. i was asked if i wanted to become a referee to help my son's team when he was about eight years old and, of course, isaid no. i mean, who wants to be a referee? nobody wants to — no—one grows up wanting to be a referee, as far as i'm aware. and then, i thought, "you know what? "this is a perfect opportunity where i can give back "to my son's club. "and because i've played football, maybe i've got "a little more credit or credibility when they ask "me, �*well, you know, what do you know about f

and there, he will meet hossein vafaei, who has made it to his first uk championship quarterfinal afterw selt. now, in football, you often see the transition from player to manager but not really from player to referee. vance warner played in the top flight of english football and roomed with david beckham as a youth team player for england. but for the last 13 years, he has dedicated his time to refereeing youth games and has just won an award for it. angela rafferty has been to meet him. sunday morning, nine am. a frosty, foggy, non—league pitch — not the place you'd expect to find a former premier league player. i was asked if i wanted to become a referee to help my son's team when he was about eight years old and, of course, i said no. i mean, who wants to be a referee? nobody wants to — no—one grows up wanting to be a referee, as far as i'm aware. and then, i thought, "you know what? "this is a perfect opportunity where i can give back "to my son's club. "and because i've played football, maybe i've got "a little more credit or credibility when they ask "me, �*well, you know, what

and he'll meet hossein vafaei has made it to his first uk championship quarterfinal after a 6—1 victoryll, you often see the transition from player to manager — but not really, from player to referee. vance warner played in the top flight of english football and roomed with david beckham as a youth team player. but for the last 13 years, he has dedicated his time to refereering youth games and has just won an award for it. angela rafferty has been to meet him. sunday morning nine am. a frosty, foggy, non—league pitch, not the place you'd expect to find a former premier league player. i was asked if i wanted to become a referee to help my son's team when he was about eight years old. and of course, i said no. i mean, who wants to be a referee. nobody wants to. no one grows up wanting to be a referee, as far as i'm aware. and then i thought, "you know what? "this is a perfect opportunity where i can give back to my son's club. and because i've played football, maybe i've got a little more credit or credibility when they ask me, "well, you know, what do you know about football, ref"? ican

hossein vafaei defeated four chinese representatives in the 6th british snooker championship and today , the number one man in the world will go to england for the final match. yesterday evening, esteghlal football team of tehran defeated savor's golden cluster in a preparatory match with four carpets of the first division . babaei, blanco, mehrdad mohammadi and ramzani were the scorers of the blues in this match. iran women's national handball team in its second meeting in the world competition. denmark will face germany tonight . qane's students lost 35-15 results to lesistan in their first game. al-tad kalwa, which is led by farhad majidi, is fourth in the ninth week of the emirates league with derakhsh mehdi qaidi. he won against iniesta's students in the emirates team. qaadi, who scored the first two goals of his team and gave two assists, became the best player of his team. antoine griezmann, the french player of the atletico madrid football team , was chosen as the best player of last month in la liga. thank you for your attention to sports news. in the name of allah, the most m

vafaei 6 frames to 2 in the semi—finals.bringing the last red into play, to go on to take that frame and he eventually went on to clinch the match in style. this will be his 9th uk final and if he wins, it'll be for a record extending eighth time. iam i am never bothered by what my partners do. i'm always focused, searching for a game that is going to win the tournament. i'm never thinking, it helps sometimes if your opponents don't feel great against you and you still win tournaments, but it doesn't matter who i play. i'm going to go out there and play solid and if a play solid, the other guys have to play brilliant to beat me, so that our satisfaction comes more with that for me. it's hard to be happy with that when you are used to winning, or you feel like you are capable of winning. judd trump and china's ding junhui is under way in york. you can watch on bbc two, iplayer and the bbc sport website. and finally, back to the fa cup and the lowest ranked club left in the competition are ramsgate from the 8th tier, so 4 divi

ronnie 0'sullivan's semi final against hossein vafaei has just got underway at the uk snooker championship to the middle east. tracks couldn't go _ live to the middle east. tracks couldn't go through _ live to the middle east. tracks couldn't go through to - live to the middle east. tracks couldn't go through to gaza . couldn't go through to gaza yesterday. it israel blocking it? our goal— yesterday. it israel blocking it? our goal now the military operation has resumed is to pursue hamas vigorously. we will destroy hamas's military machine and enter their control over the gaza strip at the same time, we will in parallel maximise efforts to do two things, one, to differentiate between terrorists and the civilian population who are not targets of our operation. we will do all we can to safeguard that. also, we will facilitate entrance into the gaza strip of humanitarian support for the civilians of gaza. as we move in to crush hamas, we will in parallel continue to facilitate humanitarian support for the people of gaza. that is part of our strategic goal. 0nce is part of our strategic goal.

vafaei nearly pulled the score back to 4—3, but he missed an easy black.evious matches, he would probably have beaten me today. he let me off the hook a few times i didn't put as much pressure on me and i managed to put a few balls and make a couple of decent breaks will stop but he wasn't far away from it, if he plays like he had in the previous matches, i think she would have won. —— he would have won. bangladesh's cricketers have made history by winning their first home test match against new zealand. and they have this man to thank — left—arm spinner taijul islam — whose 10 wicket haul helped them to victory in sylhet. his 6 for 75 in the second innings meant new zealand were dismissed for 181 and bangladesh won by 150 runs. it's a two test series. and the draw is underway for next year's euros — you can keep up do date with that on the bbc sport website, but that's all from me for now. let's return to our top story. let's go live to tel aviv, these are supporters and families of hostages who are still being held in gaza. they are holding a rally, we h

o'sullivan will meet hossein vafaei in the semis after the iranian beat zhang anda.inal. he sealed a 6—3 victory over two—time champion mark selby and finished with a familiar flourish. trump will play ding junhui in the last four. tiger woods had a better second day at the pga tour's hero world challenge after admitting he felt "rusty" on thursday, having not played since april. woods made a 2—under par 70. at one point it looked as if it could be even better because he was 4—under through the first 12 but late bogeys rather ruined his card. he's one over par overall. scottie scheffler and jordan spieth share the lead on 9—under par overall. now, a club that's the magic. the thing i love about going about all of these footballing minnows living the dream is you find out so much notjust the dream is you find out so much not just about the clubs but the towns and that's the case with the lowest ranked team left in the competition. through to the second round. ramsgate. from the eighth tier, so four divisions, below the professional leagues. they have other jobs they h