Brian Winter (born 21 January 1968) is a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

former football

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. In September 2010 he had to be talked out of quitting as a referee after he failed to send off Steven Anderson despite showing two yellow cards to the player in the space of 12 minutes. He retired in 2012 due to injury, a short time after taking charge of one of his highest-profile appointments, the

2012 Scottish Challenge Cup Final The 2012 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, also known as the Ramsdens Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, was an association football match between Falkirk and Hamilton Academical on 1 April 2012 at Almondvale Stadium in Livingston. It was the 21st fi ...

. He was appointed as a 'referee observer' by the

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a few months following his retirement. In 2017, he was given responsibility for overseeing officials in the

Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannraig; sco, Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scot ...

and

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regions.Welcome from Brian Winter
Stirlingshire Refeees Association, 11 August 2017 His son Andy Winter is a footballer who began his career with

Hamilton Academical Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire who currently compete in the Scottish Championship, having been relegated from the 2020–21 Scottis ...

.Winter hopes to shine on field despite seeing referee dad criticised in the past
Evening Express, 17 January 2020Andrew Winter Insists 'I Will Be Ready When Accies Chance Comes'
Hamilton Academical F.C., 18 January 2020

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