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The match for which Hoyzer is most remembered was a cup match in August 2004, when he awarded two highly suspicious penalties to the home side, Paderborn against Hamburg, sending off a Hamburg player for dissent at the second. Regionalliga Paderborm duly won. He continued to referee at his normal level of 2. Bundesliga and Reginalliga for some three monthys. As mauricelapin stated, he was sentenced to 2 years plus in jail and banned from football for life. The latter punishment was subsequently amanded tyo a ban from refereeing, but not from football and he was involved with some clubs in the Berlin area, though he did not seemto stay long at any of the more important6 ones.

Jim Callaghan was a FIFA official, who as JT states,was suspended by the SFA following a League Cup match (not the Cup Final) in 1969.His offence was failure to punish Celtic's John Hughes, previously booked, for a kick at an opponent. Scottish football has the misfortune to be saddled with two big and powerful clubs, divided on sectarian lines. Callaghan, a Catholic, was reputed to favour Celtic in some of his decisions, while Protestant/Masonic referees were alleged by Celtic sources to lean over backwards for Rangers. The rest of Scottish football probably felt, with some justification, that they were on the wrong end of decisions whichever of the Old Firm they played. Matters are perhaps a little less fraught these days, but accusations continue to be made about some current referees - the two clubs have more than their share of moronic supporters.

Michael Malbranc had refereed in the Bundesliga for 7 years, though the fact that he had only done 64 games shows that he was not one of the top officials and he was 44 at the time of his resignation, so just three ye4ars short of retirement age.