John Brooks (referee)

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John Brooks
Full name John Edmund Cornwall Brooks
Born 1990 (age 33–34)
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
Domestic
YearsLeagueRole
2012–2016 Premier League Assistant referee
2014–2016 Football Conference Referee
2016– English Football League Referee
2021– Premier League Referee
International
YearsLeagueRole
2015–2016 FIFA listed Assistant referee
2023– FIFA listed Referee

John Edmund Cornwall Brooks (born 1990) is an English professional football referee who has primarily officiated in the Premier League since 2021. He has been a UEFA First Category referee since 2024, and was previously an assistant referee in the Premier League.

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Brooks began refereeing in 2004, and became a Select Group assistant referee in 2012 and then a FIFA listed international assistant referee in 2015. He began refereeing in the Football Conference League in 2014, before becoming an EFL referee in 2016. He was promoted to Select Group 2 in 2018, before his promotion to Select Group 1 in June 2021. He was promoted to the FIFA list of international referees in 2023.

Early life and family

John Edmund Cornwall Brooks was born in 1990 in Melton Mowbray, to Edmund Hugh Cornwall Brooks (1949–1990) and Sally Ann Taylor. His father died in a car accident in 1990. [1]

Career

Early career (2004–2021)

Brooks began refereeing in the local leagues in Leicestershire in 2004 at the age of 14. [2] In 2011, he was promoted to the national list of assistant referees, and in 2012 he was promoted to the Select Group of assistant referees. [3] He was promoted to the FIFA list of international assistant referees in 2015. [4]

Brooks was an assistant referee at the 2014 Football League Championship play-off final and the 2015 FA Community Shield. He was also an assistant referee to Mark Clattenburg at the 2016 FA Cup final. [3]

Brooks began refereeing in the Conference League at the start of the 2014–2015 season, before moving up to Football League in the 2016–2017 season. [2] [5] He was promoted to Select Group 2 at the start of the 2018–2019 season. [6] He refereed the 2018 FA Vase final between Stockton Town and Thatcham Town. [7]

Premier League and FIFA list (2021–present)

Brooks was promoted to the Select Group of referees in June 2021. [8] [7] In December 2021, Brooks refereed his first Premier League match between Wolves and Burnley at Molineux. [9]

On 11 February 2023, Brooks, as the video assistant referee, wrongly ruled out a goal by Brighton & Hove Albion's Pervis Estupiñán against Crystal Palace. A technician tasked with drawing the lines failed to draw the line to the deepest Crystal Palace defender and mistakenly identified James Tomkins as the Crystal Palace player closest to his own goal when it was actually his team-mate Marc Guéhi. [10] [11] After the image was presented to Brooks, he misjudged the situation and unintentionally ruled out Brighton & Hove's goal. An emergency meeting was convened by PGMOL head Howard Webb after the incident. Following the meeting, Brooks was subsequently dropped for his next two matches. [12]

Brooks was promoted to the FIFA list of international referees at the start of the 2023–2024 season. [13] He was promoted to the UEFA first category of referees at the start of the 2024–2025 season. [14]

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  6. ↑ "EFL Official Website - Select Group 2 Match Officials". web.archive.org. 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
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  8. ↑ "Asfordby referee John Brooks promoted to Premier League". Melton Times. 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
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  10. ↑ "VAR technician was partly to blame for John Brooks error during Crystal Palace vs Brighton - The Athletic". 2023-02-27. Archived from the original on 2023-02-27. Retrieved 2023-02-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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