Current Affairs Only female football referee in Czech men's first division forced to sit out second half of season
Dagmar Damkova is one of the leading female football referees in the world. In 2003 she made history here in the Czech Republic, when she became the first woman to officiate in the men's first division, while at the end of last season she became possibly the first woman in the world to referee a national cup final. But now Damkova has been struck off the list of top flight refs for the second half of the season. The referees' commission say it is because she failed to complete a fitness test - even though she was ill at the time. I asked her if she thought that was the only reason.
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