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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: elbee94
Date: January 20, 2026, 4:56 am
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> I hope Mr Atkinson performs better at Colchester than he did
at Peterborough, where he issued 11 yellows and a red in a game
where many of both sides described his performance as the worst
they have ever seen...plainly ridiculous thing to say, but it
was a very bad and inconsistant day at the office
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I don’t think you’re the first person to give him a critical
review - i’ve seen him I think 3 times and generally, he’s been
steady and not much to moan about. If both us and Grimsby win
this weekend, it sets up Tuesday nicely for a pretty big game,
even if still fairly early in the season.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: Ref Watcher
Date: January 20, 2026, 5:32 am
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> I hope Mr Atkinson performs better at Colchester than he did
at Peterborough, where he issued 11 yellows and a red in a game
where many of both sides described his performance as the worst
they have ever seen...plainly ridiculous thing to say, but it
was a very bad and inconsistant day at the office
>
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In all honesty there should probably have been more cards. The
problem was the lack of consistency which led players to
thinking they might get away with something. Of the cards
issued, two were for delaying throw ins and two for dissent, one
of them at half time so the players have to take some of the
blame for that as the Peterborough manager wisely stated
afterwards
HTML https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/peterborough-united-boss-hits-out-at-completely-irresponsible-dissent-bookings-and-insists-his-side-must-be-better-prepared-for-refereeing-inconsistencies-5479701.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: Boz
Date: January 22, 2026, 3:18 pm
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Ross Martin in the middle for Rovers' trip to Cambridge. Not a
name I'm familiar with, there was a report on here from OwdReds
about his handling of the Accrington v Milton Keynes game, which
sounded a bit of a mixed bag.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: olliebcafc
Date: January 24, 2026, 12:00 pm
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Huddersfield Town FC (First Team) v Bradford City FC (First
Team) Live on SkySports+
Football League 1
Referee: Duckworth, Edward
Assistant Referee: Jones, Matthew
Assistant Referee: Cunliffe, Mark
Fourth Official: Copeland, Steven
Once again no complaints with Ed Duckworth this afternoon. Got
the red card spot on and a correct no penalty call against
Baldwin in the first half. A couple of soft fouls each way and
it felt like the 50/50 throw ins he sided with Huddersfield but
he was certainly better than anyone in a pink shirt today!
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: Ryanellis
Date: January 24, 2026, 12:43 pm
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Notts County F.C. (First Team) v Crewe Alexandra FC (First Team)
Live on SkySports+
Football League 2
Referee: Searle, Isaac
Assistant Referee: Larkin, Joseph
Assistant Referee: McKittrick, Harley
Fourth Official: Young, Alan
A very promising performance today. There wasn’t a lot to really
do, but dished out the 4 yellows correctly. I’d imagine Isaac
will be happy with today’s work, unlike Crewe where the Notts
County keeper didn’t even make a save!
A solid 8/10 for me. Very well done Isaac and team.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: elbee94
Date: January 24, 2026, 2:43 pm
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Colchester United FC (First Team) v Fleetwood Town FC (First
Team)
Football League 2
Referee: Breakspear, Charles
Assistant Referee: Read, Greg
Assistant Referee: Butler, Stuart
Fourth Official: Barnett, Craig
A refereeing performance that reflected the game from Charles
today, a game of two halves.
He breezed through the first half with little involvement. Quite
a lot of fouls committed by Fleetwood but he tidied up
everything he needed to and despite the quantity of fouls (and
his occasional nickname of card shark!) , I think he rightly
kept his yellow card in his pocket. If anything, I think he
could have given more fouls, it was pretty physical.
The second half from Charles wasn’t terrible by any means but I
think it was a little weak, for two reasons. The primary reason
being he was far too lenient to Colchester for their
timewasting. Fleetwood improved massively after the break and
Colchester changed their approach quickly, attempting to see out
the game. Goalkeeper Macey and the corner takers both were lucky
to escape in my opinion, although he did correctly issue a
flurry of yellow cards in the closing stages, including one for
Edwards for delaying the restart. The time was at least added on
in 8 minutes of second half stoppage time
The controversial incident was a decision to not issue a second
caution to Fleetwood’s Bonds, for a very similar incident to his
first booking. It was a clear use of the belief that a second
yellow card needs to be egregious - whether you agree with that
mantra or not is another matter, but the Fleetwood captain can
feel lucky to remain on the pitch.
It’s not a performance i’m going to remember in anger, but it’s
also not one of Charles’ best displays in Colchester, of which
he’s had a few. A banged up Colchester side a little lucky to
come away with the win after a strong 2nd half from the
visitors.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: Ryanellis
Date: January 27, 2026, 7:03 am
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Port Vale, Cheltenham and Barrow’s games have all been called
off.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: olliebcafc
Date: January 27, 2026, 6:45 pm
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Lincoln City FC (First Team) v Bradford City FC (First Team)
Football League 1
Referee: Parkinson, Stephen
Assistant Referee: Tewson, James
Assistant Referee: Clayton, Samuel
Fourth Official: Bell, Elliot
Once again we were miles off the pace but credit to Lincoln who
were very very good. Stephen Parkinson didn’t do himself any
harm but did come across as a bit of a ‘homer’. I would like to
see the foul he awarded which led to the opening goal again (it
appeared to be one of three wrong offensive free kicks given to
Lincoln if I’m being honest). He wasn’t too keen on speeding
Lincoln up either once they had a 2 goal lead but it wouldn’t
have made a difference.
AR2 looked like a competition winner unfortunately, struggled
with a few really basic throw in calls
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: Ryanellis
Date: January 28, 2026, 2:03 am
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Bromley FC (First Team) v Crewe Alexandra FC (First Team)
Football League 2
Referee: Farmer, Aaron
Assistant Referee: Read, Greg
Assistant Referee: D'Urso, Daniel
Fourth Official: Hickman, Andrew
2nd time seeing Aaron, and the 2nd time I thought he had a good
game. Once again, there wasn’t a lot to do but dealt with
handbags pretty well by letting the players get on with it and
then calling over the culprits. He cautioned Bromley manager
Andy Woodman after the handbags, but I’m not entirely sure what
he did. 7 mins added on second half was the fair amount and that
helped Crewe go on to find a well-deserved equaliser.
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Re: Sat 24th – Tue 27th JAN 2026
DIR By: elbee94
Date: January 28, 2026, 5:01 am
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Colchester United FC (First Team) v Grimsby Town FC (First Team)
Football League 2
Referee: Atkinson, Ben
Assistant Referee: Cresswell, Alan
Assistant Referee: Evans, Robert
Fourth Official: Bonneywell, Daniel
Unfortunately, for the 3rd game in a row, i’m a bit disappointed
with the officials, this time with Ben Atkinson in the middle. I
have to say that was a tough game to officiate - it was
physical, lot of fouls, a team who were up against it for the
last 35 minutes and were determine to drain every second they
could. Well done to the officials for adding that time back on
though (timewasting, injuries and “injuries”), which totalled
over 13 minutes before the final whistle went. There were also 3
big decisions to be made, but only 1 was made correctly.
Ben got most of the fouls right but did get some wrong too, but
that was at an acceptable level in my opinion. He manages
dissent quite well, with at least 2 yellow cards to players and
1 to the Grimsby coach from memory. I did think Khouri was a
little lucky not to get booked for repeated playacting though.
He also should have booked Tovide earlier for getting wound up
and had 2 or 3 nudges/pushes off the ball before he was booked.
Overall, there was a lot of one side winding the other side up
and Ben should have got a handle on this earlier, which might
have made life easier for him as the game went on.
As for the 3 big decisions, the first one to give Green a second
yellow was correct for stopping a possible Colchester counter.
His first yellow was for something he said so he’ll be annoyed
with himself there. However Lisbie also should have been sent
off for a very similar foul to Green, arguably more clear. The
fact that his booking (dissent!) came just a couple of minutes
earlier might have (unjustifiably) saved him.
The most crucial decision though was a failure to award a
penalty to Colchester in the 88th minute for a pull on Williams
by Lavelle, as Williams was chasing to get to a rebound.
Definitely a penalty in my view, possibly a red card for DOGSO
too, a decision that may have altered the result of the game. I
hope Ben looks back and learns from that one, he seems well
placed to spot that.
A difficult game but the officials, especially the referee,
should have got some things right that he didn’t. Grimsby
excellently defending their box after the red card and probably
deserved the 3 points all things considered.
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