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- Profile at weltfussball.de at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 May 2007)(in German)
- ↑ "Internationally renowned Belgian soccer referee Alexis Ponnet was knocked..." United Press International . 28 February 1983. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ↑ Nour, Waleed (4 September 2011). "Rampant bad refereeing: When will FIFA wake up?". Sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020.
