I can still see vividly see that bald Macclesfield player slapping the ball in with his hand on the floor in front of the Valley. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd so angry.
The byline is missing, though I'm guessing it was Dave Peters who wrote it, who wasn't normally predisposed to laying into referees from what I can remember.
The ref for that Preston game, where Baird was cynically scythed down leading to a Preston counter attack for their first goal, was David Laws. I was listening on 1170 and Hutch must have been close to having a aneurism, so enraged he was by Laws's antics throughout the game.
The blatant Lincoln handball he failed to see at Sincil Bank in 1999 alone guarantees him a place in the hall of shame, despite Paul EmbleN™ making it an irrelevance in the end.
There were a few games with him reffing that were off the charts nuts. I remember one where the decisions were so bizarre that the crowd was just laughing every time, and I think it was that Lincoln game mentioned above where both sets of fans spent most of the match singing together about his performance, his onanism and his fitness for duty.
Um, so I was thinking it was David Crick (Notts County (H) D1-1 October 1998) who I offered some “constructive feedback” however I have a feeling the “advice” I shared with Paul Danson was from a different game.
I have a feeling he was reffing at the New Den, when Steve Brown got away with a yellow card for what I still believe were three separate red card offences carried out in the space of around seven seconds.
It happened so frequently with Str*tt*n hopefully you can indulge my notion he had it in for us without also being worried for the safety of the 5G mast down the road.
Mentions of the likes of Prosser are a bit unfair, they made such catastrophic balls ups that none of us present are ever likely to forgive them but they were one offs.
Steve Evans is comedy gold on 3CR. Generally starts with praise for the ref, ‘he’s a good ref…BUT…’ and then reels off all the ‘mistakes’ the ref made against Stevenage today and how he is going to get ‘an apology from PGMOL on Monday’.
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Philip Prosser
I rest my case
Philip Don
I can still see vividly see that bald Macclesfield player slapping the ball in with his hand on the floor in front of the Valley. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd so angry.
His lackadaisical time keeping against Col U is the one that sticks out in my mind, though the BFP website has reminded me of this late vintage St*tt*n display - https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/5186138.its-stretton-againhelp-wycombe-1-swindon-1
The byline is missing, though I'm guessing it was Dave Peters who wrote it, who wasn't normally predisposed to laying into referees from what I can remember.
The ref for that Preston game, where Baird was cynically scythed down leading to a Preston counter attack for their first goal, was David Laws. I was listening on 1170 and Hutch must have been close to having a aneurism, so enraged he was by Laws's antics throughout the game.
Gurnham Singh
"Can you hear the........"
He was all right, wasn't he? Or maybe it's my shoddy memory.
The blatant Lincoln handball he failed to see at Sincil Bank in 1999 alone guarantees him a place in the hall of shame, despite Paul EmbleN™ making it an irrelevance in the end.
There were a few games with him reffing that were off the charts nuts. I remember one where the decisions were so bizarre that the crowd was just laughing every time, and I think it was that Lincoln game mentioned above where both sets of fans spent most of the match singing together about his performance, his onanism and his fitness for duty.
Any relation of Jarnail Singh?
Oh you’re pushing me to my very limits here, especially @eric_plant and @ReadingMarginalista
You’ve mentioned a special group of referees who were so spectacularly appalling that they were comical (with the joke on us).
I even wrote to the F.A. about David Laws regarding his ‘performance’ in that game at Preston North End in February 1999. Oh the naïveté of youth.
None of them had it in for us though, they were all just shit.
Who was the ref you told to ‘hurry up and retire,’ in the car park? Paul Danson?
Um, so I was thinking it was David Crick (Notts County (H) D1-1 October 1998) who I offered some “constructive feedback” however I have a feeling the “advice” I shared with Paul Danson was from a different game.
I have a feeling he was reffing at the New Den, when Steve Brown got away with a yellow card for what I still believe were three separate red card offences carried out in the space of around seven seconds.
Or it may have been Royston Osborne?
Royston Osbourne surely never made it into the football league?
It happened so frequently with Str*tt*n hopefully you can indulge my notion he had it in for us without also being worried for the safety of the 5G mast down the road.
Mentions of the likes of Prosser are a bit unfair, they made such catastrophic balls ups that none of us present are ever likely to forgive them but they were one offs.
Steve Evans is comedy gold on 3CR. Generally starts with praise for the ref, ‘he’s a good ref…BUT…’ and then reels off all the ‘mistakes’ the ref made against Stevenage today and how he is going to get ‘an apology from PGMOL on Monday’.
we have a good laugh about it every week.
get your ‘Steve Evans bingo cards’ here!