Ray Tinkler

Raymond Tinkler (born 1929) is an English football referee who served on the Football League list from 1961 to 1976. Outside football he was a company secretary.

Career On leaving school, Tinkler worked for E W Bowser and was company secretary for over forty years.

Ray was on the Football League Referees' list from 1960 to 1976. He was a linesman at Wembley for the 1962 FA Cup final between Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley and refereed the amateur cup final in 1971. In 2000, Tinkler was still adamant that the player was in his own half. He later became Chairman of the Football Association Referees' Committee and The Referees' Association.

In 1998, he received a gold medal from the FA for fifty years' service.