George McCabe

George McCabe
Born(1922-03-13)13 March 1922
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
DiedJanuary 2001(2001-01-00) (aged 78)
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
OccupationAssociation football referee
Known for1966 FIFA World Cup

George McCabe (13 March 1922 – January 2001)[1][2] was an English association football referee, who officiated at the 1966 World Cup and in an FA Cup Final. He became a Football League referee in 1954 and an international referee in 1960. Throughout his league career he sent off only three players. Outside football he was the director of a Sheffield engineering company.[3]

  1. ^ Birthdate: zerozero.eu website. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
  2. ^ "The late George McCabe" Archived 23 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine: Sheffield United official website. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
  3. ^ (The Guardian, 25 April 1969, p22)