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Raymond "Ray" Chadwick (Darwen)
DIR By: John Treleven
Date: February 23, 2023, 1:13 pm
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Former Darwen professional referee dies
5th July 2017
Photo - referee Ray Chadwick gets ready to officiate a match in
his pomp
A football referee who rose from the ranks of local league
matches to officiating at big games throughout Europe has died
aged 82
18th March 1935 - 28th June 2017
Ray Chadwick, from Darwen, who died after a short illness,
developed his interest in football as a youngster when he played
in the Darwen League.
He worked at Shaws Newsagents on Railway Road before buying the
business. His wife, Marina, whom he married in 1958, and father
to Garry and Pam, ran the shop while Ray pursued his refereeing
career, even though he initially refused!
One of his favourite stories was when Leeds and Scottish
international Joe Jordan once threw himself horizontally
two-footed off the ground right under Ray’s nose. He initially
blew up for dangerous play, but as the ball flew into the top
corner, and the Elland Road crowd went wild he decided that his
whistle was just perfect to signal not a free-kick, but a goal!
He was also the man in the middle at the infamous game between
Derby and Fulham at the old Baseball Ground. Fulham needed
victory at Derby to stand any chance of winning promotion to the
First Division; Derby needed all the points to be sure of
avoiding relegation to the Third. At half-time, the game was
goalless but the 21,142 crowd were very tense. It was Ray who
complained to police that not only was the linesman on the Pop
Side covered in spit, he had also been struck by a salt cellar
thrown from the home crowd.
And in another memorable moment, he was once running the line at
a big League match with a ref who was overbearing and officious.
He made the mistake of wagging his finger at the other linesman
at the half-time break. The lad picked him up and slammed him
against the changing room wall. He explained very carefully that
ex-Barnsley miners don’t take too kindly to that kind of
admonition.
As well as football, he was a keen athlete and helped to
organise early triathlon events in Darwen in the mid-80s. Marina
won the second one held in 1985.
A requiem mass will be held at St Joseph’s at 10.45am today,
followed by interment at Darwen Eastern Cemetery. Mourners are
asked to wear brightly-coloured football shirts.
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Re: Raymond "Ray" Chadwick (Darwen)
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: February 24, 2023, 3:10 am
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The game between Derby and Fulham in May 1983 was Ray's last on
the FL. It had a further twist when, in the last minute and
Derby leading 2-1, Fulham launched a last desperate attack down
the left wing only for play to come to an abrupt halt as a fan
allegedly 'tackled' a Fulham forward on the touchline. Derby
hung on to win and Fulham, through their manager Malcolm
McDonald, demanded that the match be replayed, which didn't
happen. Highlights of the sinister ending to the game, as well
as earlier pitch incursions, are on YouTube and it must have
been a sad way for Ray to end his FL career. RIP Ray.
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Re: Raymond "Ray" Chadwick (Darwen)
DIR By: Hendo
Date: February 25, 2023, 3:52 am
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Just watched the highlights. It wouldn’t be allowed today with
the fans being so close to the field of play, potentially a very
dangerous situation for both players and officials.
What amused me was around the 9 min mark when you get a good
view of the stand behind the goal to the right. Little or no
supporters in there but guarded by about a dozen stewards and
police while the footage just before shows one solitary copper
trying to control the massed crowds in the bottom left of our
screen.
The Offenbach/Josef Locke song The Bold Gendarmes springs to
mind!
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Re: Raymond "Ray" Chadwick (Darwen)
DIR By: Boris10
Date: February 25, 2023, 4:02 pm
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From'Geneveve de Brabant' and amazingly I was humming the tune
the other day.One of many light music pieces that you could hear
on the Light Programme.Now you can't hear them at all due to BBC
and Classic FM policy.The so called leaders of these so called
music programmes need running in.
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