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Referees and their assistants from England in the European Cup m
atches of the 1959/60 season
By: stepan Date: May 11, 2021, 8:46 am
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Arthur Edward Ellis (Halifax)
23.09.1959 FC Barcelona - CDNA Sofia
(??? and ???)
27.04.1960 FC Barcelona - Real Madrid
(B. Hills and G.E. Readle)
Reginald James Leafe (Nottingham)
30.03.1960 Rangers FC - Sparta Rotterdam 3:2
(W.G. Buckley and A.J. Stewart)
21.04.1960 Real Madrid - FC Barcelona
(John W. Hartnett and W. North)
John Kelly (Eccleston)
09.03.1960 Sparta Rotterdam - Rangers FC 2:3
(S.J. Milford and G.A. Smoker)
Kevin Howley (Billingham)
16.03.1960 Rangers FC - Sparta Rotterdam 0:1
(J. Berry (Altrincham) and K.E. Walker (Blackpool)
Jack Clough (Bolton)
03.09.1959 CDNA Sofia - FC Barcelona 2:2
(??? and ???)
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Re: Referees and their assistants from England in the European C
up matches of the 1959/60 season
By: stepan Date: May 11, 2021, 9:27 am
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Arthur Edward Ellis (Halifax)
23.09.1959 FC Barcelona - CDNA Sofia 6:2
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Re: Referees and their assistants from England in the European C
up matches of the 1959/60 season
By: ajb95 Date: May 11, 2021, 9:42 am
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Interesting career for Reg Leafe according to his Wikipedia
site.
Barcelona v Real Madrid, European Cup 1960
Leafe is known on the continent as the referee who once
disallowed 4 goals in the "El Clásico" match-up between Real
Madrid and FC Barcelona in a 2nd round match in the European
Cup.
In the first leg Arthur Ellis had awarded a late, controversial
penalty for Barcelona when Sandor Kocsis was fouled outside the
Madrid penalty area. In the second leg at the Nou Camp Leafe
took charge. Kenneth Wolstenholme, for the BBC, called it "the
game of all time". The mood of the evening was summed up, later,
by the normally dignified Santiago Bernabeu commenting that
Leafe was Barcelona's best player.
There are doubts as to whether Leafe was the man for the job. In
total he disallowed four Real goals, and the game finished 2–1
to Barcelona. Phil Ball, a football historian, who saw footage
of the game, remarked that the protests carried some substance
since none of the goals "appear to be illegal in any way". Later
Alfredo Di Stéfano remarked: "UEFA people didn't like us
dominating 'their' cup. That's why they got English referees to
make sure we didn't. After all, English referees were supposed
to be the best. No one would suspect anything."
Rapid Vienna v Benfica, European Cup, 1961
Later that season in the second leg of the semi-final in
Austria, Leafe was at the centre of a massive row when deciding
that the Rapid Vienna forward Robert Dienst had dived in the
Benfica penalty area in the last minutes of the game. Various
appeals to restore calm fell on deaf ears and the tie became the
first European Cup match in history to be abandoned.
With Benfica winning the tie 4–1, Béla Guttmann later said to
Leafe: "You should have let them have their penalty...It would
have saved us a lot of trouble, and it wouldn’t have helped them
reach the final anyway".
"Even if a team were leading by a hundred goals to nil", Leafe
is said to have replied, "I would still not grant their
opponents an unwarranted penalty".
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Re: Referees and their assistants from England in the European C
up matches of the 1959/60 season
By: stepan Date: August 26, 2023, 3:37 am
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Jack Clough (Bolton)
03.09.1959 CDNA Sofia - FC Barcelona 2:2
(??? and ???)
Martin D. (Scunthorpe) and Hemmings John (Jack) H.
(Chesterfield).
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Re: Referees and their assistants from England in the European C
up matches of the 1959/60 season
By: John Treleven Date: August 26, 2023, 7:48 am
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Donald (Don) Martin of Scunthorpe
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