Career
He is associated with the Wiltshire Football Association. East has been on the national list of football referees since 2006. In 2006, at the request of the Football Association, he travelled to Libya to officiate the Tripoli derby between First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ittihad and First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahly.
He had previously been an assistant referee for the 2004 Final and the 2006 FA Community Shield.
He took charge of the 2012 Football League One play-off Final between Sheffield United and Huddersfield Town and refereed his first Premier League game in September 2012 in a match between Swansea City and Sunderland.
