Whole new ball game as refs strip off for charity

THEY strip off at every match to don the black jersey but for these daring referees, it is a whole new ball game — so to speak.

Forty members of the Cork branch of the Irish Soccer Referees Association have come within an inch of being called offside to pose naked for a 2012 charity calendar — with not a single red card in sight.

The men in the middle stripped off to help raise funds for the Jack & Jill Foundation.