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Mark Halsey
Full name	Mark R Halsey

Mark R. Halsey (born July 8 1961) is an English football referee in the FA Premier League. He was formerly based in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, latterly in Bolton, Lancashire.

Career

Mark Halsey, a native of Hertfordshire, spent 12 years playing non-league football before he started refereeing in 1989. In December 1984 he played one game for Barnet before joining St Albans City and in the early 1990s Mark would train with Barnet in Potters Bar to keep himself prepared for the rigours of officiating top flight games.

Mark has been a National List referee for the Football League since the mid-1990s. He refereed the 1999 Football League One Play-off Final between Gillingham and Manchester City at Wembley on May 30 1999, when City won 3-1 on penalties, the match finishing 2-2 after extra time.

Also in that year, he was promoted to Premier League referee, his first match in this competition being the 1-1 draw between Wimbledon and Coventry City on August 14 1999.

In 2000, he was added to the FIFA List of referees, officiating in the Toulon Under-21 tournament in the same year. In 2001 he was a referee for the football tournament at the World Student Games in Beijing, and in 2002 at the FIFA World Disabled Championships, held in Japan.

Also in 2002, he was appointed as fourth official to Mike Riley for the FA Cup Final on May 4 2002 at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, where Arsenal defeated Chelsea 2-0, the goals coming from Ray Parlour and Freddie Ljungberg.

In 2004, he took control of his first major FIFA appointment, the match between Belgium and France. Mark recently appeared on The Legends Football Phone in on 105.4 Century fm. For years the legends had been publicly trying to get him on the show, as he regularly listen's to the show.