March is International Women’s Month with International Women’s Day being held on 8 March.  For this reason we wanted to highlight a women whose career is particularly difficult to be successful in.  Sian Massey was chosen following a suggested by our HR colleague Paul Caruana who has seen Sian ‘in action’ whilst watching his beloved West Ham United.

Sian Massey is a female football official making her way in the difficult world of professional football.  She turned professional in March 2010, her first Premier League appointment was on

28 December 2010, as an assistant in Blackpool 2-0 away win at Sunderland.  Now Sian regularly officiates at all levels of English football from the Premiership all the way through the lower divisions.

Although not the first female football official, Amy Fearn and Wendy Toms having gone before her she is well known because she was the involved in the controversial incident where Sky Sports employees were sacked for making unprofessional\sexist remarks regarding her performance.  She, however, is now considered to be one of the best assistant referees in the country.

Sian also officiates at women’s matches being heavily involved in the women’s world cup tournaments of 2007 and 2011 and no doubt will be involved in the forthcoming world cup in 2015.