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A few weeks ago I posted a spreadsheet of FL and PL referees from 1992 until 2019. This is the next instalment covering the seasons 1969 to 1992. 1969 may seem an odd date to start but marks fifty years ago plus the year when the Football League reintroduced the system of supplementary referees (then called "auxiliary referees") which all referees had to pass through before joining the full List. As regards the codes "r" stands for FL referee, "fr" for FIFA referee and "sr" for supplementary referee. If you're familiar with using spreadsheets, e.g. filtering and sorting, you can do things such as produce the lost for a specific season. However if you're not familiar with those things you can still view the results.

Many of these details are in Gilbert Upton's excellent book. However this spreadsheet also has the first names of every referee except one supplementary ref whose name has so far eluded identification - S. Swain of Liverpool (1969-1970). FIFA referees are also indicated. Final totals show the separate numbers on the full and supplementary Lists. The number of FIFA referees in those days was always seven per nation.

Where referees joined the list before 1969 or left after 1992 their whole span of seasons can't be seen but the start and end dates at the end show at a glance when they were on the List. The second tab (1969-2020) does show all the years and the complete spans of more recent referees.

Just for reference and to show what can be extracted from the spreadsheet by filtering here are the Lists for 1969-1970:

Full List

Baldwin, Peter
Barker, Ron
Batty, Vernon
Bone, Alan
Burns, Ken
Burtenshaw, Norman
Callaghan, Leo
Capey, Roy
Castle, Bill
Challis, Ron
Corbett, Dennis
Counsell, David
Daniels, Brian
Darlington, Roy
Davey, Harold
Dawes, Tommy
Dimond, Arthur
Ellis, Harry
Fieldsend, Douglas
Finney, Jim
Fussey, Maurice
Gow, John
Graham, Nathaniel
Green, Alan
Hartley, George
Hill, Gordon
Homewood, John
Howell, Denis
Howley, Kevin
Hunting, John
James, Vince
Jennings, Eric
Johnson, Ray
Jones, Arthur
Jones, Gerry
Jones, Iory
Kayley, Syd
Kerkhof, Mike
Kew, Gordon
Kirkpatrick, Roger
Laing, David
Lewis, Gerrard
Lyden, Danny
Matthewson, Bob
Morrissey, Tony
New, Harry
Nicholls, Charles
Nicholson, Ricky
Nippard, Derek
Oliver, Tony
Osborne, John
Paine, Reg
Partridge, Pat
Pugh, Dennis
Quinn, John
Reynolds, Tom
Robinson, Ivan
Sinclair, Malcolm
Smith, David
Spittle, Rex
Styles, Keith
Taylor, Jack
Thacker, John
Thomas, Clive
Tinkler, Ray
Turner, Dennis
Walker, Keith
Wallace, David
Walters, Peter
Williams, Harold
Wynn, Ken
Yates, John

FIFA referees (7)

Burns, Ken
Burtenshaw, Norman
Finney, Jim
Howley, Kevin
Jennings, Eric
Smith, David
Taylor, Jack

Auxiliary (supplementary) referees (30)

Bassett, Frank
Brocklehurst, Fred
Byford, Percy
Chamberlain, John
Crabb, Ron
Fallon, Colin
Gill, Tom
Golightly, Baxter
Hackney, Harold 2
Hall, Bill
Hart, Arthur
Hodgson, Bob
Howell, Cliff
Johnson, Walter
Jolly, Ted
Judson, Ron
Lee, Ralph
Paget, Norman
Raby, Bob
Seeley, Andrew
Sheppard, Roy
Sier, John
Sinkins, Les
Smith, Ivan
Sutliff, Ken
Swain, S
Sweet, Ken
Trevett, Gordon
Washer, Maurice
Weedon, Ray

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John Treleven

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I have Stanley "Stan" Swain 1926-1992

of Penuel Road, Walton, Liverpool L4

President of the Liverpool Sunday Football Referees Society 1971-73

I asked them via their online contact form
if it was one and the same person
but I did not receive a response
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Thanks John. I'm pretty sure that's the man in question. "Stan" always seemed to me to his likeliest first name given referee demographics of the time although "Sid" and "Sam" were also possibilities. There's a slim chance that "Stan Swain" is simply a namesake who was also involved in Liverpool refereeing at a high level but it seems very unlikely. I also used the online contact form but without a response which is unfortunate as I'm sure they could have given a definitive answer.

That birth date would suggest that he was rather old to have been appointed a supplementary referee (age 43 or possibly 42 when the season started). However it's worth bearing in mind that all the 1969-1970 supplementary referees were "mature" officials aged late 30s or early 40s - presumably the Football League giving initial priority to older refs who might otherwise miss out. From the following season (1970-1971) much younger officials, e.g. Ken Baker, David Richardson, became supplementary refs alongside older ones.

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Swain, not Stan but Sid

Liverpool Echo

22.11.1969
Red's youth player David is the son of a F.L. supplementary list referee

14.01.1970
David Swain, full back, included in England Amateur Youth squad of 16 v Scotland at Derby on 31st Jan

25.04.1970
Team picture of Liverpool U20 squad (inc. Swain) who were travelling to the Ajax Amsterdam tournament

David W. Swain birth registered Q3 1952 son of Swain and (nee) Farrer

younger sister Paula registered Q2 1957

Marriage of Sidney Swain & Lilian Farrar (note ends ar, not er) Q1 1951
(but spelling not solved by births - Lilian Farrer Q2 1931 & Lilian Farrar Q3 1931)

Sidney Swain birth Q4 1927







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John Treleven

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Sidney Swain born 14th October 1927, died Q1 1978
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Thanks for this info LF. I have taken a look through the list of 72 names for 1969/70 (full list) and reckon I saw up to 40 of them in live action, but only two of the supplementaries (Crabb and Jolly). I could also give details of games I was at for most of the 40. The most frequently seen refs at Selhurst Park were New and Tinkler, and the only names from the 72 which don't ring a bell with me are David Counsell and John Quinn; also Harry Ellis is only known because he reportedly disallowed five goals in a promotion encounter - Derby v Palace - in season 1968/9, and Doug Fieldsend because he abandoned a game - Blackburn v Palace in Feb 1969 - after less than 20 minutes.   

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Swain, not Stan but Sid

Liverpool Echo

22.11.1969
Red's youth player David is the son of a F.L. supplementary list referee

14.01.1970
David Swain, full back, included in England Amateur Youth squad of 16 v Scotland at Derby on 31st Jan

25.04.1970
Team picture of Liverpool U20 squad (inc. Swain) who were travelling to the Ajax Amsterdam tournament

David W. Swain birth registered Q3 1952 son of Swain and (nee) Farrer

younger sister Paula registered Q2 1957

Marriage of Sidney Swain & Lilian Farrar (note ends ar, not er) Q1 1951
(but spelling not solved by births - Lilian Farrer Q2 1931 & Lilian Farrar Q3 1931)

Sidney Swain birth Q4 1927

Thanks for all your excellent demographic detective work John. It would seem we can now close the case on this one and Mr. Swain's first name is Sid. That also means that we now have the first names of every Football League referee from 1969-1970 onwards.

The only media reference I've ever come for Mr. Swain was of a match at Port Vale in September 1969 which praised his performance. it's not often in any era that a referee gets that kind of accolade. Of course that's just one report and for whatever reason he didn't progress to the full List in common with many other supplementary referees. I'm sure there were some who narrowly and unluckily missed out and others who - dare one say it - were fortunate to progress further. Sadly it seems from your findings that he was one of those referees who died at a relatively young age - just 50.

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I imagine that Ken Dodd would have been tickled to see his name on this spreadsheet!