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#Post#: 42079--------------------------------------------------
One-hit wonders?
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: December 30, 2021, 10:26 am
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None of the refs shown below would have seen themselves as
'one-hit wonders,' but all are known for one match in
particular, for good or bad reasons, happy or sad, even tragic.
But what were the matches and what were the years? All bar one
(*) are post-War and all bar one (+) of the English refs appear
in Upton's. 30 in all including two from across the Channel.
Please post piecemeal to give others a chance to respond and
we'll let BMB answer Q1 first! Good luck. AT.
1. Derek Nippard (Christchurch)
2. Alf Buksh (Dollis Hill)
3. Phil Richards (Preston)
4. Rudolf Kreitlein (West Germany)
5. Kelvin Morton (Bury St Edmunds)
6. Paul Alcock (Redhill)
7. Mike Dean (Wirral)
8. Eric Jennings (Stourbridge)
9. Denis Turner (Cannock)
10. Ron Warnke (Coventry)
11. Colin Fallon (Blackpool)
12. Eddie Hughes (Weston-super-Mare)
13. Peter Willis (Meadowfield)
14. Percy Harper (Stourbridge) (*)
15. Ray Tinkler (Boston)
16. Don Shaw (Sandbach)
17. David Hutchinson (Abingdon)
18. David S Hutchinson (Chipping Camden)
19. Ray Lewis (Great Bookham)
20. Tommy Dawes (Norwich)
21. Derek Webb (Sale)
22. John Hilditch Stoke) (+)
23. Darren Drysdale (Lincs)
24. Michael Lowe (Sheffield)
25. Kevin Breen (Liverpool)
26. Roger Milford (Bristol)
27. Tofik Bahramov (Azer)
28. Norman Glover (Chorley)
29. Arnold Challinor (Rotherham)
30. Roy Capey (Crewe)
#Post#: 42080--------------------------------------------------
Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: JCFC
Date: December 30, 2021, 10:42 am
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My (fallible) memory is telling me that Mr Richards in 3 was in
fact called Phil.
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Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: JCFC
Date: December 30, 2021, 10:51 am
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While on the subject of Mr Richards, I suspect the match you
have in mind is the League Cup Final of 2000, when he replaced
Alan Wilkie, who had to come off because of an injury.
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Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: JCFC
Date: December 30, 2021, 3:38 pm
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20. Coventry v Everton 1970. Willie Carr's donkey kick for Ernie
Hunt to score. Sadly, a procedure later deemed illegal.
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Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: December 30, 2021, 3:54 pm
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Many thanks, JCFC and JT for filling in and putting me right on
some of the names. I will amend tomorrow.
JT - your PM, fine apart from 7, 10, 16, 21 (not the current
David Webb) and a year needed for 24, Michael Lowe.
JCFC - I 'like' your answers so far!
#Post#: 42115--------------------------------------------------
Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: December 31, 2021, 4:32 am
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Amendments now incorporated, thank you.
JT - as you rightly say (in a PM), there could be many answers
for 7. Mike Dean, and I'm happy to accept suggestions from
anyone. However, I remember one match in particular, and that is
all I'm going to say!
Good luck with 21. David Webb of Sale and 24. Michael Lowe of
Sheffield. For Michael, think big (pardon the pun), think
Yorkshire and a result which, if repeated today, really would
bring the house down! Boris10, are you able to help? And I still
wince when the name David Webb of Sale is mentioned on RTR!
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Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: JCFC
Date: December 31, 2021, 6:18 am
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--- Quote from: Acme Thunderer link ---
> And I still wince when the name David Webb of Sale is
mentioned on RTR!
>
--- End Quote ---
Perhaps you would be obliged to wince less often if you recalled
him as Derek Webb.
Which takes us to 1980 and Clive Allen's shot rebounding off the
stanchion, but a certain South London club being denied a goal.
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Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: December 31, 2021, 8:57 am
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--- Quote from: JCFC link ---
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> [quote author=Acme Thunderer link=topic=3226.msg42115#msg42115
date=1640946738]And I still wince when the name David Webb of
Sale is mentioned on RTR!
>
--- End Quote ---
Perhaps you would be obliged to wince less often if you recalled
him as Derek Webb.
Which takes us to 1980 and Clive Allen's shot rebounding off the
stanchion, but a certain South London club being denied a goal.
[/quote]
Thanks JCFC and JT for putting me right on Derek rather than
David Webb, I will amend. And yes, JCFC, you are of course
correct in suggesting that the Palace were denied a great goal
from a Clive Allen free kick because Derek Webb and his linesman
thought the shot had come back off the post, whereas it had
actually come back off the stanchion at the back of the goal.
Derek seemed almost taken unawares when the kick was taken and,
as a consequence, he was out of position to see what happened
with the free kick. He laboured on for another season to
complete just three years on the list, and one wonders how much
the incident at Coventry affected his confidence and future
performances.
JT, 1980 is correct for 24. Michael Lowe.
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Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: RCG
Date: December 31, 2021, 12:30 pm
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Hilditch became for ever linked to Fergie time
#Post#: 42134--------------------------------------------------
Re: One-hit wonders?
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: December 31, 2021, 3:38 pm
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--- Quote from: RCG link ---
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> Hilditch became for ever linked to Fergie time
>
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whose 80th we just happen to be celebrating today (Fergie not
Hilditch)!
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