Wendy Toms Wendy Toms Wendy Toms (born 16 October 1962) is an English former football referee from Broadstone, Dorset who has officiated in the Football League and then the Premier League, both as an assistant referee. She was the first female ever to fulfil such roles at those levels. She also served for FIFA on the women's international list. Her other occupation is as a parcel post manager. Toms took up refereeing in the late 1980s, and progressed to become a reserve (now "fourth") official in the Football League in 1991 for the Bournemouth versus Reading match in the old Third Division,
Wendy Ey Wendy Ey Wendy Ey (1938–1997), born Wendy Hayes, was an Australian track and field athlete, administrator, academic, author and feminist. She was an athletics sprint and hurdles champion from 1954 until 1960 and a Commonwealth Games silver medalist in Cardiff, Wales in 1958. Ey also excelled at squash and hockey. Ey continued to be an active sport participant all her life and was a master’s world champion in athletics. Ey was a lecturer and researcher in Physical Education at the University of South Australia. She co-authored and published a range of papers on women in sport. In 1987 she was