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LONDON -- In his changing room before the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa, referee Howard Webb wasnt comfortable in his blue shirt.So he took it off.Put it back on.Took it off.Put it back on.Did this six times.Moments from the most important game of his life, Webb was struck down by another bout of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition in which a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior.Webb kept the condition secret throughout a career that saw him referee the Champions League final and World Cup final in the same year, fearing the harsh world of soccer would mark him down as mentally unsound.He has revealed the condition in an autobiography, and told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he didnt want to jeopardize his career. You have to give the impression of being an assured and confident person, he said.In Johannesburg, as the Netherlands and Spain prepared for the World Cup final, Webb was trying to get changed. He wrote: I reached into my kit bag and grabbed my azure blue Adidas shirt. However as I pulled it on, a negative thought invaded my head, my anxiety levels rose and I took the top off again to erase that niggling feeling.In the end it took me about six attempts to keep that bloody shirt on my back.His mood wasnt improved by what happened on the field. In a dirty game full of nasty fouls, the ex-policeman showed the yellow card 14 times and the red card once, a record for a World Cup final. He also missed a vicious kick to the chest of an opponent by Netherlands player Nigel de Jong.There are some that are unrefereeable and that was one of them, he said about the biggest game in global soccer.Webb said he tried to avoid sending players off, but agreed that that sometimes meant he failed to show the red card when he should have done.I recall a Manchester derby when Cristiano Ronaldo sarcastically applauded me after I booked him, Webb said. Of course, I should have showed him the red card (sarcastic applause is seen as dissent, a booking offense) but I thought to myself, `Im going to change the course of the game by doing this. For want of a better word, I bottled it by not sending him off.The 45-year-old Webb is a soccer analyst and head of refereeing for the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, and says hed like to land more roles that help to develop refs.Famous as much for his bald head as his refereeing, Webb says the OCD began when he was a boy growing up in Rotherham, east of Manchester in northern England.He noticed that sometimes he kissed his mother goodbye in the morning and a bad thought entered his head that something was going to happen to her. So he would kiss her again -- and again -- until a positive thought about her entered his head and he could relax.His parents noticed the behavior, but brushed it aside as Howards habits.Webb kept it from his football employers. I could have imagined some less-than-sympathetic person remarking, `Can we trust Webb on a football field? Or shall we hand that semifinal to a ref whos, erm, not so flaky?Until he retired in 2014, Webb was Englands top referee, and his autobiography reveals a profession riven by in-fighting among the small group of elite refs who control English Premier League games.What had been intended as an informal beer and barbecue night in Cumbria almost descended into a version of Fight Night ... between Graham Poll and Mark Halsey, Webb wrote.He said: Watching them trading personal insults and squaring up to each other was pretty unedifying. Both ex-referees have denied any such clash took place.While more and more technology was being introduced to help refs, Webb said footballing authorities needed to recognize that technology has its limits.There has to be a clear acceptance that it wont be the answer to every decision in the game, he said.Goal-line technology has proved a big success, but Webb was a less a fan of video technology.Some decisions arent right or wrong, he said. Theyre subjective decisions that should be made by the referee. Off White Air Max 90 For Sale . Philadelphia is 2-0 against the Senators this season and scored five goals in each victory. The Flyers recorded a 5-0 win in Ottawa on Nov. 12 and then earned a 5-2 home decision on Nov. 19. The Flyers have claimed three straight and four of the last five encounters with the Sens overall and Philly has won two in a row and three of its past four tests in Canadas capital city. Cheap Air Max 90 Womens China . 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On Saturday, the brainy bantamweight from Manchester becomes the first English woman to fight in the UFC when she takes on Canadian Alexis Davis (13-5) at UFC 161 in Winnipeg. "I would never have imagined growing up that I would be a professional athlete," said Sexton. "In fact, if youd said that to any of my classmates, they would have laughed at you. I was the nerdy kid who didnt particularly get on with sports at school. "But I can say its been a hell of a journey." Sexton, a pioneer in the womens side of the sport, made her pro debut in May 2002. She saw a posting on a forum asking for a female fighter but, by the time she got in touch with the promoter, they had found someone. Sexton got a call a few weeks later. "The girls just pulled out, do you want to fight? Its tomorrow," she was told. She had never been in a full-contact fight and had only done limited sparring in training. 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Sextons two career losses came at different weights. She was supposed to face Gina Carano at 135 pounds, only to have Carano show up at 139. Sexton lost the September 2006 fight by second-round knockout. "The Carano fight, I was definitely too small," Sexton said. "Im considerably bigger and stronger now than I was then ... My games changed considerably as well, Im a very different fighter now than the one I was going into that particular match." Her June 2010 loss to Zoila Gurgel in Bellator was at 120 pounds. &quuot;It was one of those (fights) where everything was going great and then I woke up," said Sexton.dddddddddddd She dipped her head at the wrong time, catching a Gurgel knee that resulted in a first-round knockout. Sexton, who has an eight-year-old son named Luis, calls herself a full-time athlete and part-time osteopath. "One and a half jobs as well as being a mother," she explains. Luis has grown up around MMA but Sexton says hes more interested in soccer than fighting these days. "Hes at the age at the moment where I think he thinks its quite cool what his Mum does," Sexton said. "He enjoys telling his friends that his Mums a fighter, which means I get some interesting looks from the other parents and teachers at the school." Her interest in osteopathy came after she received treatment for a back injury sustained during judo training. "I was really impressed with what he did. That was when I thought, Right I need to be able to do this." A few years later, she decided to make treating sports injuries a career. Five years of part-time studying later, she had the degree to back it up. Sextons road to MMA started at 14 when she took a taekwondo class. Its started as a way of learning some self-defence, but she soon found she liked it. "It was the first time I found a physical activity that I really got a buzz off, that I really enjoyed doing." At Cambridge, she tried her hand at a few different martial arts: including judo, and traditional jiu-jitsu. Then a few years later, while she was doing post-graduate work, she saw a documentary about mixed martial arts. "As soon as I saw it, I though that looks like a fantastic thing to do, that looks like a great challenge," she recalled. "Obviously once I started training specifically for that, started doing the grappling and all of that, I realized how much I didnt know so that added a whole new element to what I had to learn," she added. Fighting has taken her around the world, from a beachside ring in Costa Rica to Las Vegas, Vancouver and St. Petersburg, Russia. "Ive had the opportunity to be involved in some great events, some I suppose really fantastic and in a way quite surreal experiences, the sort of thing that I never expected to be involved in," she said. "When I first started out in the sport, my original plan was Right, Im going to have a couple of fights, Im going to prove to myself that I can do it and then Im going to get on with my life and go work in an office or whatever. "And I had a few fights and I found that I was actually reasonably good at this. Then I started thinking Well how good could I get, if I really focused on it? Could I be one of the best in the world. "And I suppose, 10 years later, Im still here." ' ' '