Best Referee

[Spitfire]

I'm just going to question this to assess how close I am to forgetting everything I once knew - I think it was half time?

It was full time. Brazil v Sweden I think 78 World Cup group game.

 

[WickedWolfie]

It was full time. Brazil v Sweden I think 78 World Cup group game.

World Cup 1978: Clive Thomas' infamous final whistle

World Cup referee Clive Thomas looks back at his infamous decision in the 1978 World Cup to call full-time just before Brazil scored what would have been a winning goal.

www.bbc.co.uk

Peed off Havelange.....

 

[bigwolf]

Tierney.

Genuinely like choosing between chlamydia and Gonorrhoea.

I can assure you Chlamydia gets my vote every day if the week.

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

It was full time. Brazil v Sweden I think 78 World Cup group game.

Oh dear. Nurse!

 

[Frank Lincoln]

I'm just going to question this to assess how close I am to forgetting everything I once knew - I think it was half time?

You may be right, but I am fairly sure it was full time. Though I have been known to be wrong..

 

[glorybox]

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

You may be right, but I am fairly sure it was full time. Though I have been known to be wrong..

No sadly as so often my clear memory of it being half time is incorrect. You carry on mate, I'll start looking for a nice home to fade away in!

 

[WickedWolfie]

You may be right, but I am fairly sure it was full time. Though I have been known to be wrong..

Particularly when it comes to inclement weather and appropriate garb.....

 

[Ian]

It was full time. Brazil v Sweden I think 78 World Cup group game.

Indeed, blew the whistle while ball was in flight , which went to Zico to score.

 

[SydneyWolf]

Problem is, after being one of the "better" referees for a while they get given more and more of the Big Six games and end up getting familiar and chummy with those players. I'm convinced that's part of the unconscious bias you see with big decisions for those teams (letting one more tackle go before a yellow, more inclined to buy play acting and give/not give marginal penalty decisions etc). If a ref is on the PL list they should be considered good enough to officiate any game - assign them randomly rather than continually give the big games to Oliver and Taylor.
I think Tierney has done well. Don't mind Pawson and Taylor - at least they are decisive, even if they get one or two things wrong. Robinson was good at the weekend but he's only got a small sample size. It's the likes of Jones, Salisbury, Gillet and Madeley that drive me mad.

 

[Werewolf of Wombourne]

It doesn’t matter what we all think of today’s refs, none of them are as bad as Uriah Rennie. That bloke gave us all indigestion.
He would have fitted in seamlessly if he was still reffing nowadays.

I used to hate Roger Gifford aka Rog the racist more. Roger Milford aka Rog the Perm on the other hand was an excellent ref.

 

[Jonzy54]

I used to hate Roger Gifford aka Rog the racist more. Roger Milford aka Rog the Perm on the other hand was an excellent ref.

I officiated with him in his last season before which, he avowed to referee ,as he was taught,namely using common sense.The powers that be didn’t like it but he said he was going out anyway so he enjoyed it immensely.As we all know the various law changes and the advent of VAR have continued to mess up the game in which he and I qualified in

 

[Jay Jay de Wolf]

Like asking which is the sexiest pig.

This is why Brighton's manager Roberto de Zerbi said 80% of the refs in England are not good enough!

 

[lobodelsur]

I used to hate Roger Gifford aka Rog the racist more. Roger Milford aka Rog the Perm on the other hand was an excellent ref.

In the 70s we always seemed to lose when Pat Partridge reffed us.

 

[Frank Lincoln]

In the 70s we always seemed to lose when Pat Partridge reffed us.

In the mid 80‘s we used to lose, whoever the referee was…

 

[Werewolf of Wombourne]

In the mid 80‘s we used to lose, whoever the referee was…

or the opposition

 

[Jonzy54]

I mentioned this before but in Steve Gordos’s book about Peter Knowles it listed all of his games ,the teams ,results and referees .In the one season in which played ,he was ever present and of the 42 games we had just once referee twice ,Leo Callaghan .
We never new who we would get and there was certainly no familiarity

 

[Frank Lincoln]

I mentioned this before but in Steve Gordos’s book about Peter Knowles it listed all of his games ,the teams ,results and referees .In the one season in which played ,he was ever present and of the 42 games we had just once referee twice ,Leo Callaghan .
We never new who we would get and there was certainly no familiarity

Very true. Back in the day we didn’t know the referee was, and weren’t bothered. Now the elite list referees seem to be on first name terms with a lot of the players.

Another problem is that too many referees nowadays think people turn up to watch them, just watch the antics Mike Dean used to get up to for proof. The old adage that you never notice a good referee is as true now as ever it was.

 

[Jonzy54]

Very true. Back in the day we didn’t know the referee was, and weren’t bothered. Now the elite list referees seem to be on first name terms with a lot of the players.

Another problem is that too many referees nowadays think people turn up to watch them, just watch the antics Mike Dean used to get up to for proof. The old adage that you never notice a good referee is as true now as ever it was.

Back in the day I used to walk from Merry Hill where we lived .I had no thoughts who the Referee might be , he was merely the man in black who blew the whistle.Iwould walk up Bath Road and turn left ,before walking down to the ground ,and the excitement I would feel when I saw the BBC/ITV cameras to denote we would be on TV that weekend .The smell of the embrocation wafting through the dressing room windows,the boliled onions from the Burger vans before going through the North Bank entrance and smelling the Bovril as I walked up the steps.
Salad days !!!

 

[Autistic Kangaroo]

Love an oxymoronic thread