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       Don't Shoot the Ref - short documentary from 1981
   DIR By: Left Field
       Date: June 16, 2020, 12:23 pm
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       In case anyone hasn't seen it there is a short documentary from
       1981 called "Don't Shoot the Ref":
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNOwtnYD5E&t=43s
       It focuses on two referees called Neil - the up-and-coming Neil
       Midgley (then of Eccles) and London parks referee Neil Farrell
       and provides an excellent comparison between the two at very
       different levels of the game. Most of the focus is on Neil
       Midgley and it shows him receiving his appointment card for a
       Middlesbrough-Sunderland game (November 1981), preparing for the
       match (including washing his laces!), talking about refereeing
       and then clips of him during the game with the video topped and
       tailed by fans of both clubs complaining about referees. A great
       insight into him in his pre-international and Cup Final days and
       one wonders what happened to the less famous Neil from the
       parks?
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