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Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: Badger
Date: August 2, 2022, 2:43 pm
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My first “Live” match in a while, and was looking forward to
watching Charles perform.
First half and very impressed. Communication is superb, players
respect him and dealt with the flashpoint calmly. Was funny to
think the United fans thought Honeyman had escaped a yellow when
it was in his hand all along 😂
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: August 3, 2022, 4:46 pm
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Breakspear has always been very good whenever I have seen him
live which is about 3 or 4 times. It amazes me that he hasn't
progressed to SG2 at least. I think he has been considered but
as yet not selected. Baffling when one compares him to some who
seem to be secure in their SG2 berth, as he is head and
shoulders above them.
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: nemesis
Date: August 4, 2022, 4:09 am
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--- Quote from: Whistleblower link ---
>
> Breakspear has always been very good whenever I have seen him
live which is about 3 or 4 times. It amazes me that he hasn't
progressed to SG2 at least. I think he has been considered but
as yet not selected. Baffling when one compares him to some who
seem to be secure in their SG2 berth, as he is head and
shoulders above them.
>
--- End Quote ---
He has refereed Southend and Ipswich 23 times between them,
mostly at home and I have seen the majority of them.
As you would expect a few have been just fine, the most recent
being the carnival atmosphere end of season hammering of
Charlton at Portman Road.
Most unfortunately not so, with him managing to make far too
many games all about him. The sheer number of cards shown
relative to other referees and his knee-jerk reactions and
inconsistency have often been an issue for me and reminiscent of
Kettle in his heyday. When a game becomes challenging his answer
is card after card, some justified, some most assuredly not.
I'd guess those that make the decisions are aware of both the
good and the not so good in his refereeing and haven't wanted to
take the risk. Hasn't stopped them employing, full time, other
inadequate referees though.
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: Badger
Date: August 4, 2022, 5:35 am
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I’m fairness the match wasn’t of the most challenging he’ll do
all season, but what he did he did well. Red card was spot on
along with the other yellow he issued. He appears to talk lots
and uses lots of arm signals, which I like.
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: Mikael W
Date: August 4, 2022, 11:47 am
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If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his
performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in
2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge
(appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big
mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to
use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later
wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too.
Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key
fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that
evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: nemesis
Date: August 4, 2022, 5:31 pm
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--- Quote from: Mikael W link ---
>
> If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his
performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in
2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge
(appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big
mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to
use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later
wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too.
Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key
fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that
evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).
>
--- End Quote ---
Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final
with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? ;)
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: AFAref
Date: August 4, 2022, 6:24 pm
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--- Quote from: nemesis link ---
>
> [quote author=Mikael W link=topic=3856.msg50706#msg50706
date=1659631626]
> If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his
performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in
2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge
(appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big
mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to
use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later
wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too.
Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key
fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that
evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).
>
--- End Quote ---
Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final
with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? ;)
[/quote]
Touché
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: Mikael W
Date: August 4, 2022, 8:11 pm
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--- Quote from: nemesis link ---
>
> [quote author=Mikael W link=topic=3856.msg50706#msg50706
date=1659631626]
> If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his
performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in
2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge
(appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big
mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to
use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later
wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too.
Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key
fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that
evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).
>
--- End Quote ---
Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final
with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? ;)
[/quote]
Hahahahaha - yes indeed, my mistake. I watched all five playoff
matches from League 2 that season, so excuse my error!
From just memory (already proven to be faulty ;)):
Breakspear: in principle good style but many things went wrong
in this match for the replacement ref -
1) bottled DOGSO RC early, yellow given
2) really weird incident where an attacking freekick was
cancelled at least a minute after it given (wall set up etc),
offside restart
3) completely wrong penalty given
4) too lenient approach, then he tried to slow the game down at
the end with warnings when players wanted to get on with it(!!)
Ilderton: simply faultless and excellent performance in normal
difficulty game (also thx to him!), quite correct SYC for
tactical foul; actually this experienced ref's last game ever,
he went out at the top!
Busby: incredibly lenient foul recognition which both teams
accepted without dissent, but the game got out of control as a
consequence; one correctly given RC but I recalled that more
should have followed, not a good performance
Salisbury: very good performance with appropriately strict
disciplinary measures; reminds me of top Daniel Siebert,
Salisbury jr. is a very big talent IMO
Joyce: not my favourite kind of refereeing (not consistent
disciplinary choices, too many verbal warnings) but I'm sure
that FA/PGMOL would have been very happy overall but then he
missed clear penalty to Newport at ≈88' (assistant flagged
for later offside, ref panicked and went with offside, was clear
foul) and they rejected his performance; if not for this
mistake, I'm certain he'd have gotten SG2....
A real mixed bag! :)
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: August 7, 2022, 7:44 am
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--- Quote from: Mikael W link ---
>
> If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his
performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in
2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge
(appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big
mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to
use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later
wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too.
Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key
fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that
evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).
>
--- End Quote ---
A referee less likely to "bottle" an early RC than Breakspear
would be hard to find these days so perhaps he has learned from
the experience.
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Re: Charles Breakspear - Cambridge Utd v Millwall
DIR By: RCG
Date: August 7, 2022, 10:42 am
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Will have to go a long way to beat Mr Joyce's red at Burton
(less than 60 seconds) on Saturday.
To be fair, it looked a correct decision
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