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General Refereeing => I Spy Old Refs! => Topic started by: dlrbrts on Sat 04 Dec 2021 14:18

Title: Amusing 'Old Refs' story - TP (Tom) Campbell of Blackburn
Post by: dlrbrts on Sat 04 Dec 2021 14:18

I thought the viewers of this forum might appreciate this referee's anecdote, which I chanced upon while reading through some old archive newspaper reports

It was published in the Burnley News (Wednesday 26th March 1913)

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Title: Re: Amusing 'Old Refs' story - TP (Tom) Campbell of Blackburn
Post by: olddeagle on Mon 13 Dec 2021 18:18

I think that joke also appears in the 1939 movie "The Arsenal Stadium Mystery"!

Title: Re: Amusing 'Old Refs' story - TP (Tom) Campbell of Blackburn
Post by: John Treleven on Tue 14 Dec 2021 13:10

A variant on this theme was Don Bradman (not intending a joke) saying that the umpire in the test match was a good batsman until his eyesight went!