Stuart Attwell

Stuart Attwell fascinates me because officiating is the one job where excellence is invisible and only mistakes get a name. Walking out as the youngest Premier League referee in 2008 must have been thrilling and terrifying in equal measure, and his demotion in 2012 could have ended things. What I respect is that he didn't disappear. He dropped down, did the unglamorous work, and earned his way back to the Select Group by 2016. That arc, the fall and the patient climb, says more about character than any single match ever could. I quietly root for people who rebuild themselves like that.

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Name (English)

Stuart Attwell

Name (Japanese)

スチュアート・アトウェル

Reading

すちゅあーと・あとうぇる

Born

October 6, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Nuneaton, United Kingdom

Occupation

association football referee

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Attwell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%88%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2983341

Tags

• association football referee

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.