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One of the English will be out Thursday  anyway woth gillett on avar Wednesday.
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Wednesday 18 March 2026

18:45 CET - Barcelona (Camp Nou)
FC BARCELONA (ENG) - NEWCASTLE UNITED FC (ENG)
Referee: François Letexier FRA
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier FRA
Assistant Referee 2: Mehdi Rahmouni FRA
Fourth Official: Jérémie Pignard FRA
Video Assistant Referee: Bram Van Driessche BEL
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jérôme Brisard FRA
UEFA Referee Observer: Frank De Bleeckere BEL
UEFA Delegate: Ronald Zimmermann GER

21:00 CET - Liverpool (Anfield)
LIVERPOOL FC (ENG)  - GALATASARAY (TUR)
Referee: Szymon Marciniak POL
Assistant Referee 1: Tomasz Listkiewicz POL
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Kupsik POL
Fourth Official: Paweł Raczkowski POL
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Di Bello ITA
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Daniele Chiffi ITA
UEFA Referee Observer: Marián Ružbarský SVK
UEFA Delegate: Alojzije Šupraha CRO

21:00 CET - Munich (Allianz Arena)
FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN (GER) - ATALANTA BC (ITA) 
Referee: Benoît Bastien FRA
Assistant Referee 1: Hicham Zakrani FRA
Assistant Referee 2: Aurélien Berthomieu FRA
Fourth Official: Mathieu Vernice FRA
Video Assistant Referee: Bastien Dechepy FRA
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jarred Gillett ENG
UEFA Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili GEO
UEFA Delegate: Attila Tömo HUN

21:00 CET - London (Tottenham Hotspur Stadium)
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC (ENG)  - CLUB ATLÉTICO DE MADRID (ESP)
Referee: Daniel Siebert GER
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Seidel GER
Assistant Referee 2: Rafael Foltyn GER
Fourth Official: Daniel Schlager GER
Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Sören Storks GER
UEFA Referee Observer: Jan W. Wegereef NED
UEFA Delegate: Philippe Prudhon FRA

I’m aware of what they said, and obviously the camera is placed as such that I’ve no idea whether Mr Guest is in line, but all we can judge him on is accuracy of his onside/offside judgement and it looks to be very correct to me. Photo attached. This is as close to the moment of the pass (or attempted shot) as I can get it and the arrowed blue player looks to be being played onside by the circled red player…

I was sitting fairly high up in the Main Stand directly opposite the incident and AR2 Mr Guest. Fact - the Walsall player looked clearly offside. However, in the absence of the photo you say is attached, I took a further look at the ITV clip of the incident and yes, I now accept that he could have been played onside by a Crewe player moving upfield too slowly. As you say, Mr Guest is officiating in the professional game whilst I and everyone else in the Stand are not (as confirmed by the amount of c**p I sometimes hear in the Stand). So my eyes may have been deceiving me, and if they were, I apologise to Mr Guest. As I said in my initial comment, I was struck by the lack of protest by the Crewe players, and perhaps you have now highlighted why.   

As to shorty shorts, Clive Thomas's looked quite long compared to his fellow Welshman Tom Reynolds.

Perhaps it's a Welsh thing. My memory of the referee with the shortest of shorts is of H D Davies of Wenvoe, (a place only known from old TV signals.
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Returning from my Sunday morning Miner's Benedict I caught the second one of this morning's repeats. Three thoughts occurred to me, one from each match featured.
1) I would not have recognised the much younger Allan Gunn.
2) The smart referee of the second match was referred to as Mr Dowling. Was this actually Colin Downey?
R) Having always believed that referees' attire used to be much smarter, I have to admit the Derek Civil, with open plunging V-neck and low-cut white vest looked an absolute mess.

I remember the name Derek Civil, ( Birmingham from memory, I haven't got Upton to hand ) but don't remember the person. As to the scruffiest referee, I always thought R A Banks, Allan with two Ls I think, from Manchester came top of that rather undesirable cohort.