Rob Debney

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Rob Debney
Birth nameRobert Stephen Debney
Date of birth (1973-12-15) 15 December 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth Stafford, England
UniversityLoughborough University
Occupation(s)Rugby union referee
Rugby union career
Refereeing career
YearsCompetitionApps
2009 1872 Cup

Rob Debney (born 15 December 1973) is a former professional rugby union referee who represented the English Rugby Union. He now competes in Ironman competitions. [1]

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Rugby union career

Playing career

Amateur career

A neck injury stopped Debney's playing career while he was still at school and he began refereeing. [2] [3]

Referee career

Professional career

Debney was a referee for the English Rugby Union from 1999 to 2011. [4]

He refereed his first English Premiership match in 2004. [2]

He refereed his first 1872 Cup match on 2 January 2009. [5]

International career

Debney refereed the U21 World Cup final in 2003. [2]

Outside of rugby

Debney is a Director of Sales at TOMZ Corporation. [4] He occasionally writes rugby union articles for The Times newspaper. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Rob Debney (@robdebney) | Twitter". twitter.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "TEAM". advantage.
  3. ↑ Rob Debney (2006-01-31). "WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FULL-TIME REFEREE" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  4. 1 2 "uk.linkedin.com/in/rob-debney-53b93b54". uk.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  5. ↑ "Glasgow Warriors | Glasgow Warriors v Edinburgh". www.glasgowwarriors.com.
  6. ↑ referee, Rob Debney, former international (September 25, 2019). "Rugby World Cup: Russia player could have been killed" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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