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mutn3

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April Fool's Day
« on: Fri 03 Apr 2020 16:42 »
Though there's not much to laugh about at the moment, I'm sure most of you remember when the Football League had a sense of humour, appointing Referees and Assistants to matches with a common theme around April 1st.

From my neck of the woods, Martin Mountain and Brian Hill ( or a Mr Hill if they don't overlap) assisted Denis Hedges.

So, Upton's at the ready, do your best!

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John Treleven

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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #1 on: Fri 03 Apr 2020 18:50 »
Alcock & Ball
Baker & Cook (with Miller)
Hart & Burns
Civil & Friend
Coote & Partridge
Finch & Peck
Dorr & Key
East & West (with North)
Flood & Marriner
Grey & White
Hunting & Gunn (with Deadman)
Parker & Carr
Pike & Scales
Read & Wright
Richards & Richardson
Salisbury & Stroud (at Bristol City/Rovers perhaps)
Kettle & Salmon

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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #2 on: Fri 03 Apr 2020 19:21 »
Shaw / Lee
Jolly / Mann
Hunt / Fox
Morris / Carr
Bassett / Barker
Rice / Pickles
Shepherd / Penn
Lowe / Bridges
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #3 on: Tue 07 Apr 2020 13:39 »
French & Saunders
Brand & Wood (with Brandwood)
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #4 on: Tue 07 Apr 2020 14:41 »
Green / Parkes
Orr / Wat - son?
Topliss / Mann
Handy / Mann
Bye / Laws
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #5 on: Tue 07 Apr 2020 15:45 »
Recall from the 80s Allan Gunn being teamed ups with Messrs Pellat and Pierce and Danny Vickers with Messrs Abbot and Nunn.
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #6 on: Wed 08 Apr 2020 18:39 »
Baldwin & Grey
Bean & Berry
Black & Ball
Bridges & Brooks
Dixon & Green
Cross & Hough
Moore & Mann
New & Mann
Sherlock & Holmes
Key & Dawes
Clough & Taylor
Aston & Martin
Saul & Rhodes
Hill & Peake
Suter & Husband
Fieldsend & Hedges
Hawthorne & Greenwood
Hay & Meadows

Baker, Butcher & Cook
Wood, Sawyer & Underwood
Pearce, Boyles & Paine
Surtees, Moss & Clark
Swallow, Flye & Bye
Teale, Roost & Peck
Key, Leafe & Crook
Bent, Jury & Lawless
Civil, Law & Counsell
Black, White & Grey
Green, Blues & Brown

Finn, Gill, Salmon & Sturgeon
Fox, Hunt, Gunn & Partridge
Darlington, Sunderland, Wells & Clapton
Wiltshire, Flint, Houston & Holland
Devine, Holian, Vickers & Rev. Davis
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #7 on: Wed 08 Apr 2020 18:55 »
At a push, I think we could add Messias to the last of these  ;D

Well done John, some real funnies here!
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #8 on: Sun 19 Apr 2020 14:19 »
Saturday 1st April 1989

Swindon v Blackburn - Vickers, Bishop, Priest (should they have been at Vicarage Road?)
Oldham v Bradford City - Hedges, Hill, Mountain (as per the introductory post)
Brentford v Aldershot - Gunn, Pellatt, Pierce (were Alder shot?)
Chesterfield v Swansea - Buksh, Singh, Singh
Reading v Port Vale - Butler, Baker, Barber
Notts Co. v Wigan - Martin, P.Cox, Swift
Burnley v Hereford - H.Taylor, F.Taylor, G.C.Taylor

Alcock, Topliss & Hoare did not get a joint appointment
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #9 on: Fri 08 May 2020 14:21 »
Hi  There was time in the 1980 when Jim Ashworth ( who was the appointments officer for the Football League DID appoint on April Fools Day using the names that linked together. Ity created much interest and was very interesting at the time. I just cannot remember what year that was Does anybody know?

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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #10 on: Fri 08 May 2020 14:47 »
Thanks Gelstay and welcome to the site. If it was Jim Ashworth who did the appointing, I think it must have been after the end of the 1990/91 season when he retired from the referees list. That being the case, we seem to be limited to 1995 and 2000 when 1st April fell on a Saturday, and certainly those years were the only ones between 1991 and 2000 when Crystal Palace played on 1st April (but accepting that fixtures involving other clubs may well have been played midweek in other years). Sorry, I cannot recall this interesting situation and cannot help further. 

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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #11 on: Fri 08 May 2020 19:31 »
French & Saunders
Brand & Wood (with Brandwood)

Brandwood, Brand and Wood officiated Rochdale v Barnet on 1/4/95
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #12 on: Fri 08 May 2020 19:33 »
Laws, Law & Lawson did a game at Sheffield Wednesday.

Assistants Smith & Wesson were placed together, as were Ryan & Griggs.
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #13 on: Fri 08 May 2020 21:20 »
Fulham v Newcastle had this line up...

Phil Dowd
Roger East and Richard West
Andy Penn.
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Re: April Fool's Day
« Reply #14 on: Fri 08 May 2020 22:04 »
Thanks Gelstay and welcome to the site. If it was Jim Ashworth who did the appointing, I think it must have been after the end of the 1990/91 season when he retired from the referees list. That being the case, we seem to be limited to 1995 and 2000 when 1st April fell on a Saturday, and certainly those years were the only ones between 1991 and 2000 when Crystal Palace played on 1st April (but accepting that fixtures involving other clubs may well have been played midweek in other years). Sorry, I cannot recall this interesting situation and cannot help further.

Also maybe 1st April 2002 which was Easter Monday.