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General Discussion / Re: Worst performance ever
« on: Sat 24 Jan 2026 17:18 »
Keith Butcher, Kendal landlord, listed his recreations as “deep sea fishing and breeding budgerigars”. I didn’t know Butch all that well - his spit and sawdust pub was not the greatest of attractions on our Friday night pub crawls- but I gather from those who knew him better that he didn’t keep budgies and had never picked up a rod in his life!
Incidentally he was colour blind - I think that was true - so had some sort of distinguishing marks on his cards

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe one for the authorities?
« on: Sun 18 Jan 2026 22:15 »
Name, shame, ban and convict.

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General Discussion / Re: Grimsby vs Barnet - Jamie O’Connor
« on: Sun 18 Jan 2026 21:43 »
If you watch closely the “fouled” player gets up to begin with but then decides to “die” and see what happens.
A bit of play acting I suspect

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General Discussion / Re: Maybe one for the authorities?
« on: Sun 18 Jan 2026 21:19 »
Disgraceful.
I seem to recall it was another Anglesey match (Amlwch Town?) a couple of seasons ago where a manager was found guilty of assaulting a young linesman, also caught on camera. I believe he rightly got a lifetime ban from football but only a suspended prison sentence, which was farcical given the nature of the attack. Let’s hope the football authorities and police are a bit stronger in this case.

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General Discussion / Re: Worst performance ever
« on: Sat 17 Jan 2026 17:45 »
Quote from: Lionator27 on Sat 17 Jan 2026 14:09
Barry Knight - Ipswich v Bolton play off semi final second leg. An otherwise fine referee had about 5 head losses in a single half. That’s the one that sticks out and I have no connection to either team.

Novelty time. Never seen the words “Barry Knight” and “fine referee” in the same sentence before.

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General Discussion / Worst performance ever
« on: Thu 15 Jan 2026 11:08 »
There is quite a lot of comment from irate posters on here about “worst performance ever”, “worst ever VAR intervention “ etc., perhaps posted in the heat of the moment.
I have recently been watching F A Cup Finals from the past on YouTube, mainly my era of p 70s, 80s and 90s. I still remain convinced that you would go a long way to beat the referee’s performance in the 1991 Final.
Our older posters I am sure will know what I am talking about. For our younger posters who won’t have seen the Final I have put a YouTube clip below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPNrYKKUBg

To put into context the referee was Roger Milford - bouffant hairstyle, tanned legs, very short shorts, cheeky chappy grin, everyone’s friend supposedly but a bit of a poser. Paul Gascoigne was like something wound up and his behaviour ridiculous. The main points in the video are -

1. I min 30 secs a “foul” on Parker which is bordering on common assault and should have been red. Just a quiet word and a grin from Milford
2. 2min 50 secs a scything down of Charles, yellow at best but bordering on red. There was some karma in that Gascoigne came off worst and Forest scored from the free kick. But again nothing from our chirpy little ref.

Gascoigne should have walked without a doubt, Spurs would have been down to 10 men for most of the game and the result may have been different.

I still believe this to have been the worst dereliction of duty by a ref in all my days of watching football. Milford’s explanation that he “felt sorry for Gascoigne” beggars belief.

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General Discussion / Re: Martin Chivers Times Obituary
« on: Sat 10 Jan 2026 07:11 »
I seem to recall he came from Stonehouse in Gloucestershire.
As it was 100 years since the 1st F A Cup Final in 1872 I remember BBC news doing a short article with Mr Smith the week before. This was in the days of non professional referees and he was up a pole fixing wires as his day job was a telecom linesman.
I’ve got a funny feeling he took quite a few names in that Final too which was  a bit unheard of at the time

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General Discussion / Re: 2026 Officiating Predictions
« on: Thu 01 Jan 2026 12:03 »
Quote from: PhiltheRef on Sun 28 Dec 2025 11:53
Ms Burgin is Refereeing at Altrincham on Tuesday evening

Seen the highlights and she was very firm and correct in issuing a red for DOGSO in the 16th min.

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General Discussion / Re: Keith Hackett.........AGAIN !!!!!
« on: Mon 29 Dec 2025 20:47 »
Quote from: Whistleblower on Mon 29 Dec 2025 19:50
Let me put it in a more discreet way. Keith Hackett was not known for an especially quick turn of speed or for covering every blade of grass on the pitch when he was refereeing.

I'm not really one for making New Year Resolutions but may I suggest that the marvellous RTR community makes a collective one for 2026; no mention at all of Keith Hackett. Not that I'm trying to censor lively debate of course

Keith who?

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General Discussion / Re: 2026 Officiating Predictions
« on: Sun 28 Dec 2025 11:06 »
1. Peter Bankes will referee the Carabao Cup Final
2. Chris Kavanagh will referee the F A Cup Final
3. We will end the season still completely unsure as to what constitutes a penalty for hand ball and what doesn’t
4. Attendances at The World Cup will be low but the corrupt Infantino and completely disillusioned Trump will put spin on it to pass it off as the greatest show on earth
5. Melissa Burgin will continue to have the best legs in football

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General Discussion / Re: Middlesbrough vs Blackburn
« on: Sat 27 Dec 2025 18:29 »
Quote from: TheThingFromLewes on Sat 27 Dec 2025 15:55
Quote from: Whistleblower on Sat 27 Dec 2025 13:37
And the referee in the perfect position to see; it makes one wonder what goes through a referee's mind to make such a spectacularly bad decision. No doubt James Bell will have the opportunity to explain it to an Observer.

One hopes it’s a learning curve for him too, particularly as he is appearing as a VAR in some games, even though this is an EFL
contest.
I do often contemplate whether acting as a VAR affects your on field performance.

In no way am I claiming that officials who act as both VAR and on field officials are becoming less observant or lackadaisical on the field, but I do wonder whether the flip flopping between roles is a factor, particularly for EFL SG2 who do both.

Blimey. Read about it and wondered if folk were over reacting but just seen it now. Red every day of the week and Bell was in a good position so can’t claim his view was blocked.

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Non Footy Appointments / Re: 6 Nations Referees
« on: Sat 20 Dec 2025 07:22 »
Quote from: RCG on Thu 18 Dec 2025 21:04
Not quite sure why KD needs 2 games, especially as both involve Ireland
Paul Williams absence is unfortunate as I rate him
Good to see debuts in Davidson and Ramos
England get a mixed bag - hopefully Brousset continues to improve, as with Piradi
Nika in Edinburgh will be a good test and pleased we have Berry in France
Otherwise it's keep your whistle warm - Scotland have some very good referees in their games

Totally agree. World Rugby seem to have a thing about Dickson and keep pushing him but I find his decision making random and consider Pearce and Ridley both better referees. No need for 2 games
The omission of Williams is worrying unless this is for personal reasons. A good ref and far better than Doleman in my opinion. Is it maybe that WR are looking ahead to 2027 and gradually “dropping” some of their 2023 cohort? Hope not as he is one of the better refs

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General Discussion / Re: Nigeria-Gabon. Abongile Tom (South Africa)
« on: Tue 16 Dec 2025 21:39 »
A case of Goodnight Mr Tom then

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Non Footy Appointments / Etzebeth “ban”
« on: Thu 04 Dec 2025 18:38 »
World Rugby have today lost any credibility they still had in “banning” Etzebeth for a measly 12 weeks for an act of thuggery which could have blinded an opponent. Pathetic, weak and embarrassing. Most of those 12 weeks will be spent missing club games
Following FIFA’s lily livered capitulation in not giving Ronaldo the ban he deserved for his recent thuggery I despair 😡😡🤬

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EFL League 1, 2 & National League Prem / Re: Sat 22nd – Thu 27th NOV 2025
« on: Thu 20 Nov 2025 22:23 »
Quote from: JCFC on Thu 20 Nov 2025 16:43
Quote from: Hendo on Wed 19 Nov 2025 22:42
Quote from: Sean43211 on Tue 18 Nov 2025 17:30
Looking forward to seeing how Mellisa Burgin gets on at GIS

Really like Melissa ...
Hope it runs kindly for her this week as she is a very talented ref who I think could go far (and with the best legs in football too!)
Glad it's the legs. Your previous post, mentioning the best kegs, made me think that there have been a few male barrel-chested officials, but Ms Burgin doesn't fit that description!

😂😂😂 🍺

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