Another final match:
Gwyn Owen - Wolves v West Ham, 15.5.1982.
I'm not sure if Mr. Owen is still with us but if he is his 85th birthday would have been recently (17 April). It's a sobering thought that all those referees who retired in the 1980s would now be in their late seventies and eighties while many who retired in the 1970s would now be in their nineties. I wonder if any referees who reached retirement age in the 1960s are still around? I suspect there may be one or two and that at least one former FL referee has reached his century.
A referee I always enjoyed watching. Diminutive in height but an excellent official who must have been kept exceptionally busy as the programme notes used to record, he was also the proprietor of a coach firm and the head teacher of a local Anglesey school, as well as his national and FIFA list refereeing duties. I wonder how todays 'full timers' would cope with that lot!
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