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Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: May 14, 2020, 12:41 pm
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Apologies if we have had something like this before. I can't
remember such but that's nothing much to go by these days ! By
live, I mean a match where you were actually present.
It will surprise few of you to learn that for me it was a
performance by the peerless Joe Worrall. It was at QPR in the
early 1980s I think and I am honestly not sure about the
opponent's. What was sure though is that there was some serious
bad blood between the teams. It was like warfare out there.
Crunching tackles and no quarter given. Joe, by his fitness,
excellent reading of the game and man management skills managed
to bring the game under control and into a great spectacle.
I have been privileged to meet many senior march officials, past
and present, but I have never sadly ever met Joe Worrall who I
consider to have been the best I have ever seen. However,
hopefully we both have good years left to us so maybe one day I
will.
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: May 14, 2020, 2:22 pm
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I would agree with you Whistleblower. Joe was a class act. I
remember seeing him i/c Newcastle v Nottingham Forest in an FA
Cup 3rd round replay in Jan 1985. There was bad blood between
the two clubs, partly arising from the forced replaying of the
previous FA Cup tie between the two clubs in 1974 and of course
Brian Clough was in charge at Nottingham Forest at the time. The
atmosphere was hostile from the start but Joe took it all in his
stride. After awarding Newcastle an early penalty which was
missed but followed up with a goal from the resulting corner,
Forest went down the other end and were awarded a penalty of
their own which was scored. I waited for the reaction from the
home fans but there was none to speak of. The rest was a master
class from Forest and Joe and half the home fans had disappeared
by the time Joe blew the final whistle. Joe was not a big bloke,
but he was a man for the big occasion and an obvious choice for
many of the trickier fixtures in Div 1 and below. Joe brought
his distinctive style of refereeing to every game he was in
charge of, and I would include in this Scarborough's first ever
game in the FL Div 4 v Wolves in 1987 when I recall a fan fell
through the roof of the stadium during the game. A great ref was
Joe.
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: sastley
Date: May 15, 2020, 9:18 am
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For those of us at a certain age it was almost everytime I saw
Jim Finney.
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: May 15, 2020, 1:10 pm
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--- Quote from: sastley link ---
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> For those of us at a certain age it was almost everytime I saw
Jim Finney.
>
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Indeed I think that does make you one of our Senior Members
sastley. Jim Finney's career was even before my time of
following refereeing but I have read that a serious car accident
cruelly robbed him of officiating at a major European Final to
which he had been appointed, so the international authorities
clearly rated him as highly as you do.
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: QuoCob
Date: May 16, 2020, 1:48 am
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Difficult to assess, some of the best refereeing performances
are by the referees that you haven't noticed throughout the
game?
Do you judge a 'best' performance on the amount of activity
within the game and how that that had been dealt with, which in
some cases may have been initiated by the official in the first
place?
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: May 16, 2020, 4:26 am
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--- Quote from: QuoCob link ---
>
> Difficult to assess, some of the best refereeing performances
are by the referees that you haven't noticed throughout the
game?
> Do you judge a 'best' performance on the amount of activity
within the game and how that that had been dealt with, which in
some cases may have been initiated by the official in the first
place?
>
--- End Quote ---
I guess you employ your own criteria. This is a purely
subjective exercise, I leave the objectivity to others who are
better qualified to decide.
In all walks of life in which I have been involved I have come
across individuals who attract from me the description of
greatness. It's probably mostly an intuitive thing and a working
out of what I deem to be important and worthy of praise in any
particular context.
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 16, 2020, 5:30 am
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Whistleblower was able to set his choice convincingly in the
context of a potentially difficult situation handled in
masterful fashion. My memory, not to mention lack of
qualifications, precludes me from offering a "best" performance.
The one that left the greatest impression, however, came in a
run-of-the-mill match at Ewood Park in the early seventies.
There were no particular incidents as far as I recall, but the
referee seemed somehow to bring a different dimension to
refereeing. The official in question was Peter Reeves.
Similarly, some years earlier, Rugby League refereeing had
changed dramatically with the arrival on the scene of the
peerless Fred Lindop, whose work over the next couple of decades
was to prove immaculate.
In recent years the refereeing which impressed the most - among
very many possibilities - came in a Regionalliga match at
Elversberg. The referee was Michael Kempter, some time after his
fall from grace. It was not a particularly testing match for
someone who had achieved (and lost) FIFA listing and was handled
athletically but in a routine German manner, with several yellow
cards. What impressed, however, was the way that these were
accepted by the players and the way he maintained excellent
relations throughout. He would surely have been one of Europe's
top referees if his career had continued.
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: QuoCob
Date: May 16, 2020, 7:07 am
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--- Quote from: Whistleblower link ---
>
> [quote author=QuoCob link=topic=1494.msg17531#msg17531
date=1589611714]
> Difficult to assess, some of the best refereeing performances
are by the referees that you haven't noticed throughout the
game?
> Do you judge a 'best' performance on the amount of activity
within the game and how that that had been dealt with, which in
some cases may have been initiated by the official in the first
place?
>
--- End Quote ---
I guess you employ your own criteria. This is a purely
subjective exercise, I leave the objectivity to others who are
better qualified to decide.
In all walks of life in which I have been involved I have come
across individuals who attract from me the description of
greatness. It's probably mostly an intuitive thing and a working
out of what I deem to be important and worthy of praise in any
particular context.
[/quote]
True, but I only make the point that there are many officials
not mentioned on here either way because they never have a match
with incident that is worthy of comment. If presented with
similar circumstances, they may have reacted in exactly the same
way as the 'greats' or of those 'vilified'.
Edited to fix quote thingamajigga!
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: dave26
Date: May 17, 2020, 11:03 am
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I think Graham Poll Mike Dean and Alan Wiley have had many
masterclass performances in big games that could easily have
spilled over and dare I say it Mike Riley ( I think it was )
produced a masterclass on rabbit in headlights performance when
Rooney got away with murder against Arsenal
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Re: Best Refereeing Performance seen live
DIR By: lincs22
Date: May 18, 2020, 2:17 am
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Simply watch jack taylor in the 1974 World Cup final - two
penalties, perfectly positioned, no word of dissent. I know it
was a different era, but it showed confidence and correctness
cannot be beaten.
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