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Watch as Sheffield man Frank Foster, who will turn 92 on June 30, reflects on the more than 40 years he has spent refereeing football games.
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00:00When I was in the RAF in 1951, I used to play for Cromwell and then I used to come on the Saturday afternoon and play for Bamford.
00:22Fortunately, a few months later, I suffered a bad left leg knee ligament problem and that started me footballing.
00:34I had to go to an osteopath to get my knee better.
00:40I thought, right, I still love football, so I'm going to go for training and enter for being a referee.
00:49I'm a qualified coach and I refereed girls, boys, men and ladies and I still wanted to do that.
00:59I don't want to finish.
01:01Obviously, before a game starts, you need to do a warm-up, stretches, little sprints, just to keep that muscle warm so that when you do start a game proper, you're not going to pull anything.
01:27It's the love of football.
01:35You're out in the fresh air.
01:38It's not only in the sunshine, sometimes it's wind and sometimes it's rain, but I just love it.
01:46Age is just a number. Don't think it is an age. Do what you can while you're alive.
01:53And this is what I want to do. I want to carry on and carry on.
01:57And when I find out I can't keep up with the players, I have to go back to coaching.

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