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       #Post#: 27173--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: highfieldlatic
       Date: February 20, 2021, 6:26 am
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       Obviously Ivan the Terrible  :D
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       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: Ashington46
       Date: February 20, 2021, 8:42 am
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       --- Quote from: highfieldlatic link ---
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       > Obviously Ivan the Terrible  :D
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       To be honest, he was far from that. He retired from the League
       in 1976 but by that time he was a local JP and he umpired in the
       Lancashire League for many, many years. In addition he was a
       tour guide at Old Trafford for Manchester United. He passed away
       in 2007.
       #Post#: 27196--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: bmb
       Date: February 20, 2021, 11:20 am
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       Very good article by Max Rushden in the Guardian
       Who's the angry bloke in the black? It was sadly inevitable a
       referee would crack
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/19/whos-the-angry-bloke-in-the-black-it-was-sadly-inevitable-a-referee-would-crack
       Thank you Tünde for sending me the link.
       Another good article in the Irish Times by Emmet Malone
       The Whistleblower: The good, the bad and the ugly of refereeing
       schoolboy football
  HTML https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/the-whistleblower-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-refereeing-schoolboy-football-1.4076940
       #Post#: 27197--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: bmb
       Date: February 20, 2021, 11:51 am
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       --- Quote from: Whistleblower link ---
       >
       > No room for expressing personality now because that means
       difference and in today's creed, difference is bad. What is
       required is absolute sameness only the word sameness is
       pronounced as consistency.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       We have a referee in Hungary, Iványi Zoltán who can be a great
       personality on the pitch. He is a wise old head and a safe
       steady pair of hands the majority of the time. On occasion when
       a player is throwing a pathetic strop, you know like they do
       when they don't get a free kick for their dive or whatever, he
       will take the mickey out of them. One player who was having a
       tantrum was greeted with him shrugging his shoulders in a very
       over inflated way while doing a trout pout face! The player
       looked at him, his jaw literally dropped and he just burst out
       laughing. Another time in response to a tantrum, he stood there
       waving his arms about and stamping his foot, again the player
       just burst out laughing. There's a few similar moments from him
       & every single time it results in he and the players laughing.
       I'd not recommend it for any ref but he's very popular as a
       referee and so well respected that he can get away with the
       occasions that he does it.  It's not every game, he picks his
       moments very carefully and it never fails to diffuse the
       situation. He has an excellent rapport with players in general &
       his more normal man management is top notch. When he does call
       one wrong players tend to just accept it, they know it's a
       genuine error.  He & Solymosi Péter (who is much calmer but has
       a great range of facial expressions to convey his thoughts)
       rarely get any dissent. Both are highly praised by managers,
       players and the media for their man management, general decision
       making and advantages in particular.
       #Post#: 27584--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: Acme Thunderer
       Date: February 25, 2021, 3:51 pm
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       I was watching Quest highlights of Morecambe v Salford played in
       atrocious conditions on Tuesday night. Right at the end of the
       game, ref Seb Stockbridge controversially disallowed a Salford
       equaliser, and the Salford goalie, who had come up the field,
       quite clearly went to Seb with his colleagues and stuck his head
       towards Seb, earning a yellow card for his actions. OK, Seb
       could and should perhaps have issued a red card earning the
       goalie a 3-match ban but, as the Quest pundits rightly pointed
       out, what was the difference compared with Darren Drysdale's
       situation where he is facing a more lengthy ban or worse for a
       momentary lapse of composure in the face of an aggressive
       attitude towards him?
       #Post#: 28356--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: Referee99
       Date: March 11, 2021, 12:07 pm
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       Statement on a backdated suspension for Drysdale
       ‘
       An independent Regulatory Commission has given Darren Drysdale a
       back-dated suspension and warning as to his future conduct for a
       breach of FA Rule E3.
       The match official admitted that his behaviour during the 90th
       minute of an EFL League One tie between Ipswich Town FC and
       Northampton Town FC on Tuesday 16 February 2021 amounted to
       improper conduct.
       The suspension, which ran from 19 February 2021 to 10 March
       2021, and warning were imposed by the independent Regulatory
       Commission during a subsequent hearing and its written reasons
       are available below.
       Written Reasons: Here’s the link as it’s a 10 page document
  HTML https://www.thefa.com/-/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/discipline-cases/2021/the-fa-v-darren-drysdale---8-march-2021.ashx
       from:
  HTML https://www.thefa.com/news/2021/mar/11/darren-drysdale-written-reasons-published-110321
       #Post#: 28361--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: Whistleblower
       Date: March 11, 2021, 1:00 pm
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       Well, just about the best outcome Drysdale could have expected
       or hoped for.
       What a charming piece of work Alan Judge has shown himself to
       be.
       I hope that as a result of this there will be some campaign
       which focuses on the frankly appalling abuse match officials
       sometimes  endure and instructs them to eradicate it by the
       sanctions available to them. How on earth can referees at grass
       roots level hope to avoid having vile comments directed at them
       when at the highest levels of the game nothing is done to stop
       it. This is a timely wake up call for proper action to be taken
       and any weasel pleading of "industrial language" etc firmly
       rejected.
       #Post#: 28362--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: TillysDad
       Date: March 11, 2021, 1:07 pm
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       Why on earth was Judge not sent off,that sort of language should
       not be tolerated,the yellow card was for simulation
       #Post#: 28364--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: Leggy
       Date: March 11, 2021, 1:09 pm
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       --- Quote from: Referee99 link ---
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       > Statement on a backdated suspension for Drysdale
       >
       > ‘
       > An independent Regulatory Commission has given Darren Drysdale
       a back-dated suspension and warning as to his future conduct for
       a breach of FA Rule E3.
       > The match official admitted that his behaviour during the 90th
       minute of an EFL League One tie between Ipswich Town FC and
       Northampton Town FC on Tuesday 16 February 2021 amounted to
       improper conduct.
       > The suspension, which ran from 19 February 2021 to 10 March
       2021, and warning were imposed by the independent Regulatory
       Commission during a subsequent hearing and its written reasons
       are available below.
       >
       >
       > Written Reasons: Here’s the link as it’s a 10 page document
  HTML https://www.thefa.com/-/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/discipline-cases/2021/the-fa-v-darren-drysdale---8-march-2021.ashx
       >
       >
       > from:
  HTML https://www.thefa.com/news/2021/mar/11/darren-drysdale-written-reasons-published-110321
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       The written reasons are well worth a read.  They are astonishing
       for two reasons:
       1. The words used by Alan Judge.  If that does not warrant a red
       card for OFFINABUS then nothing does.
       2. The FA's role in the case is amateurish - and that is being
       kind.
       Darren Drysdale should not have done what he did, but if our
       referees have been so emaciated that they simply cannot issue a
       red card for such direct, personal and virulent abuse then the
       only surprise is that this has not happened sooner, and more
       often.
       #Post#: 28365--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darren Drysdale
   DIR By: robbieg
       Date: March 11, 2021, 1:11 pm
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       Well said by the  above posters. Let's hope Darren Drysdale is
       back next weekend.
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