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Gordon Kew
DIR By: Hendo
Date: April 25, 2021, 11:36 am
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Apologies if this has been mentioned before as I clearly must
have missed it but just seen that Gordon died in 2018 aged 88.
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: John Treleven
Date: April 25, 2021, 2:20 pm
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Buckinghamshire Advertiser 6th September 2018
Gordon Cecil KEW
Passed away peacefully on 23rd August 2018, in Cherry Tree
Nursing Home, Saunderton, aged 88 years.
Funeral service will be held on Thursday 13th September 2018,
Amersham Crematorium at 2.30pm.
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: April 26, 2021, 3:12 am
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Yes, this has been mentioned before. Gordon moved from Amersham
to Middlesbrough prior to his final season on the FL list,
1976/7, but then moved south again, either in connection with
his work in the insurance business or following retirement. RIP
Gordon.
The now question is, who is the earliest FA Cup Final ref still
around? We think that Norman Burtenshaw (1971) might still be
with us, otherwise it is George Courtney (1980) and Keith
Hackett (1981).
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: Hendo
Date: April 26, 2021, 8:38 am
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--- Quote from: Acme Thunderer link ---
>
> Yes, this has been mentioned before. Gordon moved from
Amersham to Middlesbrough prior to his final season on the FL
list, 1976/7, but then moved south again, either in connection
with his work in the insurance business or following retirement.
RIP Gordon.
>
> The now question is, who is the earliest FA Cup Final ref
still around? We think that Norman Burtenshaw (1971) might still
be with us, otherwise it is George Courtney (1980) and Keith
Hackett (1981).
>
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Clive Thomas 1976?
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: April 26, 2021, 9:43 am
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--- Quote from: Hendo link ---
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> [quote author=Acme Thunderer link=topic=2395.msg30426#msg30426
date=1619424762]
> Yes, this has been mentioned before. Gordon moved from
Amersham to Middlesbrough prior to his final season on the FL
list, 1976/7, but then moved south again, either in connection
with his work in the insurance business or following retirement.
RIP Gordon.
>
> The now question is, who is the earliest FA Cup Final ref
still around? We think that Norman Burtenshaw (1971) might still
be with us, otherwise it is George Courtney (1980) and Keith
Hackett (1981).
>
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Clive Thomas 1976?
[/quote]
Yes, of course, I had forgotten Clive 'the Book' Thomas!
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: John Treleven
Date: April 26, 2021, 11:27 am
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Norman Burtenshaw who celebrated his 95th birthday in February
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: April 30, 2021, 2:42 am
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> Norman Burtenshaw who celebrated his 95th birthday in February
>
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Norman Burtenshaw has been granted a long life. I wonder if he
remains in good health. He refereed the FA Cup Final in 1971.
Extraordinary that he has lived for fifty years since that
pinnacle of his career. Mind you, I am sure that record might
well be broken as he was coming towards the close of his
refereeing career, being in his mid 40s, when he was appointed
to the Cup Final. Someone who was appointed at a much younger
age may well exceed fifty years on.
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: April 30, 2021, 5:39 am
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I recall some correspondence on RTR some while back about Arthur
Luty of Leeds who refereed the 1954 FA Cup Final at a young age
(around about 36) and then continued as a FL ref until 1965, so
born in about 1918. He then lived - latterly in New Zealand -
until about 2013 when he would have been around 95 years of age.
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: April 30, 2021, 7:34 am
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--- Quote from: Acme Thunderer link ---
>
> I recall some correspondence on RTR some while back about
Arthur Luty of Leeds who refereed the 1954 FA Cup Final at a
young age (around about 36) and then continued as a FL ref until
1965, so born in about 1918. He then lived - latterly in New
Zealand - until about 2013 when he would have been around 95
years of age.
>
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It would appear Arthur may hold the record then. If he was born
in 1918 he would have been 36 when he refereed the FA Cup Final
and say he died at 95 years old that makes nearly 60 years of FA
Cup Final memories for him. That record might be hard to
surpass. The interesting thing is, according to Upton, that Luty
received the FA Cup Final honour in only his 3rd full season on
the National List after having served 2 years on the
Supplementary List prior to that. Either he was a phenomenally
brilliant referee or else he had some good friends in very high
places. Strangely his is not a name I associate with having a
stellar international career in the 1950s referees but perhaps I
am wrong about that. Someone will know and hopefully enlighten
us.
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Re: Gordon Kew
DIR By: jad
Date: April 30, 2021, 9:22 am
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The footballfacts.ru site, which, while often erratic, has
pretty good coverage of European and international fixtures of
all kinds, doesn't show him as having officiated at any
international matches at all.
But then I remembered that the site, which transliterates
everything into Russian, has contrived to divide Mr Luty into
two separate people, and on the second list he is shown as
refereeing the following:
15 Apr. 1953 N. Ireland vs Wales (Home Championship)
5 July 1953 Argentina vs Spain (friendly)
22 Nov. 1953 W. Germany vs Norway (World Cup qualifier)
28 Nov. 1954 Portugal vs Argentina (friendly)
1 May 1955 Ireland vs Netherlands (friendly)
15 May 1955 Denmark vs Hungary (friendly)
But nothing after that. I wonder what happened.
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