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Author Topic: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall  (Read 1307 times)

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Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
« on: Tue 02 Aug 2022 20:43 »
My first “Live” match in a while, and was looking forward to watching Charles perform.

First half and very impressed. Communication is superb, players respect him and dealt with the flashpoint calmly. Was funny to think the United fans thought Honeyman had escaped a yellow when it was in his hand all along 😂

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Breakspear has always been very good whenever I have seen him live which is about 3 or 4 times. It amazes me that he hasn't progressed to SG2 at least. I think he has been considered but as yet not selected. Baffling when one compares him to some who seem to be secure in their SG2 berth, as he is head and shoulders above them.
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Breakspear has always been very good whenever I have seen him live which is about 3 or 4 times. It amazes me that he hasn't progressed to SG2 at least. I think he has been considered but as yet not selected. Baffling when one compares him to some who seem to be secure in their SG2 berth, as he is head and shoulders above them.

He has refereed Southend and Ipswich 23 times between them, mostly at home and I have seen the majority of them.

As you would expect a few have been just fine, the most recent being the carnival atmosphere end of season hammering of Charlton at Portman Road.

Most unfortunately not so, with him managing to make far too many games all about him. The sheer number of cards shown relative to other referees and his knee-jerk reactions and inconsistency have often been an issue for me and reminiscent of Kettle in his heyday. When a game becomes challenging his answer is card after card, some justified, some most assuredly not.

I'd guess those that make the decisions are aware of both the good and the not so good in his refereeing and haven't wanted to take the risk. Hasn't stopped them employing, full time, other inadequate referees though.
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I’m fairness the match wasn’t of the most challenging he’ll do all season, but what he did he did well. Red card was spot on along with the other yellow he issued. He appears to talk lots and uses lots of arm signals, which I like.

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If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in 2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge (appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too. Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).

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If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in 2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge (appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too. Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).

Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? ;)
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If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in 2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge (appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too. Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).

Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? ;)

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If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in 2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge (appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too. Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).

Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? ;)

Hahahahaha - yes indeed, my mistake. I watched all five playoff matches from League 2 that season, so excuse my error!

From just memory (already proven to be faulty ;)):

Breakspear: in principle good style but many things went wrong in this match for the replacement ref -
1) bottled DOGSO RC early, yellow given
2) really weird incident where an attacking freekick was cancelled at least a minute after it given (wall set up etc), offside restart
3) completely wrong penalty given
4) too lenient approach, then he tried to slow the game down at the end with warnings when players wanted to get on with it(!!)

Ilderton: simply faultless and excellent performance in normal difficulty game (also thx to him!), quite correct SYC for tactical foul; actually this experienced ref's last game ever, he went out at the top!

Busby: incredibly lenient foul recognition which both teams accepted without dissent, but the game got out of control as a consequence; one correctly given RC but I recalled that more should have followed, not a good performance

Salisbury: very good performance with appropriately strict disciplinary measures; reminds me of top Daniel Siebert, Salisbury jr. is a very big talent IMO

Joyce: not my favourite kind of refereeing (not consistent disciplinary choices, too many verbal warnings) but I'm sure that FA/PGMOL would have been very happy overall but then he missed clear penalty to Newport at ≈88' (assistant flagged for later offside, ref panicked and went with offside, was clear foul) and they rejected his performance; if not for this mistake, I'm certain he'd have gotten SG2....

A real mixed bag! :)

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If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in 2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge (appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too. Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).


A referee less likely to "bottle" an early RC than Breakspear would be hard to find these days so perhaps he has learned from the experience.
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Will have to go a long way to beat Mr Joyce's red at Burton (less than 60 seconds) on Saturday.
To be fair, it looked a correct decision
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Jake the Peg

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Interesting penalty given by Mr Breakspear at Exeter.  Minimal contact outside the box.  I thought refs were supposed to judge whether or not contact was sufficient to cause a player to collapse in a heap?