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Since F.C. Green and G. Todd have both featured in recent postings in this section of the forum, I thought it might be worth finding out what information concerning these gentlemen is held on the footballfacts.ru web-site. 

But first some notes about the site.  At present the site is being updated, and this information is from the old version: old.footbalfacts.ru.  The coverage of match officials in English league football is far from complete and often erratic: there is hardly any coverage from before 1949, but then for the period from 1949 to about the end of the 1960s there is substantial coverage of the first division and some information about F.A. Cup games; thereafter information again becomes sparse.  For the 1950s and 1960s the site often reproduces the team pages of the match programme, which is sometimes helpful for unscrambling dodgy transliterations.   

For Major Green there is information concerning eight matches, one in 1948-9 and the rest from 1949-50.   

21.8.48 Huddersfield Town vs Arsenal  R: F.C. Green; L: G. Clark & H.R. Smith
20.8.49 Arsenal vs Burnley  R: F.C. Green; L: P.C. Annette (Basingstoke) & W.O.T. Pounder (Aldershot)
8.10.49 Chelsea vs Manchester C.  R: Maj. F.C. Green; L: J.A.E. Stone (Woking) & A.G.F. Cook (Chichester)
12.11.49 Manchester C. vs Arsenal R: F.C. Green; L: A. Holland (Barnsley) & H. Davis (Bradford)
26.12.49 Chelsea vs Liverpool R: Maj. F.C. Green; L: P.C. Annette & F.C. Williams (Oxford)
27.12.49 Liverpool vs Chelsea R: F.C. Green; L: R.P. Hartley (Burnley) & W.C. Yates
25.2.50 Manchester C. vs Chelsea R: F.C. Green; L: A. Chisem [sic] & J.W. Haigh
4.3.50 Burnley vs Fulham R: F.C. Green; L: W. Heskine & R.S. Frew

For all except the the game at Arsenal spellings of names and use of the military rank are taken from the match programmes.  I was particularly struck by the appointments for the 26 and 27 December 1949.

Information concerning Mr Todd to follow in due course.

Edited to show that the fixture of 27 December 1949 was played at Liverpool and was not simply a repeat of the previous day's game at Stamford Bridge.  Sorry about that.

Thanks for the additional information and corrections.

There are 19 (the site for some reason says 20) entries for George Todd, covering three seasons from 1949 to 1952.  In five matches he was the referee, while in the others he was a linesman.  In those days referees on the Football League Supplementary List were also given appointments as linesmen.

20.8.49 Newcastle Utd vs Portsmouth R: H.C. Williams (Fulham); L. G. Todd & W. Heselton (West Hartlepool)
1.10.49 Newcastle Utd vs Stoke C. R: A.C. Denham (Ashton-on-Ribble); L: G. Todd & E.E. Hall (Ferryhill)
5.11.49 Sunderland vs Charlton Ath. R: H. Peacock [sic] (Scunthorpe); L: G. Todd & J. Gardner (Middlesbrough).  For Peacock read Beacock
26.12.49 Huddersfield T. vs Manchester C. R: R.J. Leafe (Nottingham); L: G. Todd & C.P. Walker (Sheffield)
4.3.50 Liverpool vs Blackpool (F.A. Cup, 6th round) R: B.M. Griffiths (Newport); L: G. Todd & A.B. Bailey (Stockport)
*11.3.50 Manchester C. vs Bolton W. R: G. Todd; L: T. Hitchen (Winsford) & H. Dalton
8.4.50 Huddersfield T. vs Derby Co.  R: H. Beacock; L: G. Todd & J.A. Cattlin (Rochdale)

26.8.50 Newcastle Utd vs Everton R: H.R.A. Mortimer (Huddersfield); L: G. Todd & W.Heselton
7.10.50 Sunderland vs Huddersfield T. R: F.H. Gerrard (Preston); L: G. Todd & E.E. Hall
18.11.50 Blackpool vs Huddersfield T. R: G. Todd; L: J.H. Andrews (Manchester) & L.J. Hamer (Horwich)
*9.12.50 Huddersfield T. vs Manchester U. R: S.E. Law (West Bromwich); L: G. Todd & H.R. Smith
26.3.51 Sunderland vs Newcastle Utd R: B.J. Flanagan (Sheffield); L: G. Todd & E.E. Hall
§7.4.51 Newcastle Utd vs Tottenham H. R: W.H.E. Evans (Liverpool); L: G. Todd & A. Brown (Middlesbrough)
§7.4.51 Huddersfield T. vs Blackpool R: G. Todd; L: F.I. White & G.F. Peverell [or Peverelli?] (Doncaster)
§*5.5.51 Sunderland vs Wolverhampton W. R: E. Plinston (Warrington); L: G. Todd & G. Todd (!)

*29.8.51 Newcastle Utd vs Bolton W. R.: H. Beacock; L: G. Todd & H. Hawthorne (Willington)
*20.10.51 Bolton W. vs Huddersfield T. R: G. Todd; L: G.A. Pickering & T.B. Edwards (New Ferry)
16.2.52 Sunderland vs Bolton W. R: A.W. Luty (Leeds); L: G. Todd & R. Fenwick (Newcastle)
8.3.52 Huddersfield T. vs Bolton W. R: G. Todd; L: G.A. Beecroft (Hull) & R. Lynch

Matches for which the programme pages are not reproduced are indicated by an asterisk.

§ It would seem from this that Mr Todd was blessed with the gift of bilocation.  On 5 May 1951 the site suggests that he was expected to run both lines simultaneously.  Unfortunately, since in this case the match programme is not reproduced, the correct identity of the second linesman cannot be established.  The case of 7 April 1951, when Mr Todd seems to have been expected to officiate in two matches in two separate locations, is more complicated.  Both match programmes are reproduced, both give the date as 7April and both indicate Mr Todd in the respective functions of linesman and referee.  Discarding the attractive, but implausible theory of bilocation, we are left with several possible explanations, and perhaps someone with access to other sources can establish what really did happen on that date.

Thanks again for the additional information.  Your suggestion that there were two Mr Todds makes perfect sense to me.