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#Post#: 1273--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: September 26, 2018, 1:26 pm
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Very interesting Left Field. Do I detect from your latest post
that you have access to lists of Linesman for years past? Now
that would be a most interesting document to put into the public
domain or at least share with fellow aficionados.
As to the three referees going back to the Line. I know Paul
Danson did so in the early 2000s. I wonder if others are known ?
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Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Left Field
Date: September 26, 2018, 1:57 pm
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In more recent times (since 1993) there have been quite a number
of FL referees returning to the line and sometimes back again.
However before that time it was exceptionally rare. Very
occasionally linesmen went off the list and came back for a
second spell (two of whom later became FL referees) but that was
very uncommon as well. The policy seemed to be that if an
official went off the list for whatever reason there was no
return with just a tiny number of exceptions. I'm not sure if
this were the rationale but I suppose it would then allow other
officials who hadn't been on the FL before more chance of
promotion.
#Post#: 1613--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Left Field
Date: October 10, 2018, 12:49 pm
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Looking at the picture below you might be wondering if you're
seeing Ajax in total football mode. It is in fact... Oldham
Athletic from the mid-1960s, the jinking player being winger
Tony Bartley. In the background is a referee unknown to me,
sporting the very Sixties refereeing fashion of very long white
turnovers. I'd be surprised if anyone recognises this referee
but I think it's a striking picture nonetheless.
[attachimg=1]
#Post#: 1621--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: olddeagle
Date: October 10, 2018, 5:03 pm
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--- Quote from: Left Field link ---
>
> Looking at the picture below you might be wondering if you're
seeing Ajax in total football mode. It is in fact... Oldham
Athletic from the mid-1960s, the jinking player being winger
Tony Bartley. In the background is a referee unknown to me,
sporting the very Sixties refereeing fashion of very long white
turnovers. I'd be surprised if anyone recognises this referee
but I think it's a striking picture nonetheless.
>
> [attachimg=1]
>
--- End Quote ---
Maurice Fussey?
#Post#: 1622--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Whistleblower
Date: October 10, 2018, 6:17 pm
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Could very well be
#Post#: 1628--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: October 11, 2018, 2:42 am
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Yes, looks like Maurice Fussey. But the moustache, if indeed
that is what it is rather than a blip on the photo...? I don't
ever recall seeing Maurice with a 'tache.
#Post#: 1629--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: October 11, 2018, 2:59 am
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--- Quote from: Left Field link ---
>
> As has been worked out the latest mystery official is PW
Hayward of Bournemouth who only served one season on the
Referees List (1968-1969). However that only tells a small
amount of the story. That match profile is the only evidence
I've come across of him refereeing a match (Colchester v
Stockport) and it's possible he didn't actually take charge of
the game as Gordon Hill is also credited as the official. It's
therefore possible that he either refereed no games or just a
very small number.
>
> Normally that would be the end of a referee's Football League
career but Mr. Hayward then reappeared on the Football League
linesmen's list in 1969, completing two seasons before finally
stepping down in 1971. Until the early 1990s only three referees
in the post-war era went back to the line. Quite what happened
is a mystery - maybe he had an injury which prevented him
refereeing, or he asked to go back on the line?
>
> In the eighties and nineties a PW (Peter?) Hayward was a
member of the AFC Bournemouth board - being vice-chairman at one
stage. It's possibly a coincidence and they are two people with
the same surname and initials from the same town but it may be
the man on the Bournemouth board and the referee are the same
person. Perhaps bmb with her Bournemouth connections might be
able to find out the answer.
>
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Also there is a Bournemouth Hayward football league, and perhaps
there is a connection there. Membership of the Rotary Club is
confirmed on the Bournemouth RC website, so Mr Hayward was
clearly well known in local circles, however his profile seems
to suggest that he might have come into the area from somewhere
further west.
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Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Left Field
Date: October 11, 2018, 6:23 am
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Re the mid-1960s picture, the referee looks to me (in common
with AT) as if he has a moustache and a slightly different
hairstyle to Maurice Fussey but these things can change over
time. Having checked some other pictures of Maurice Fussey
though there is definitely a resemblance in terms of the very
distinctive way the boots are tied (with white laces) and the
long turnovers as the picture below from around 1970 shows:
[attachimg=1]
Maybe though this way of typing boots wasn't so unusual and
certainly the long white turnovers were not uncommon at the time
although they seemed to disappear very early in the 1970s. Going
back to the mid-1960s there are still quite a number of
referees, mainly with short spells on the list, who are little
known to us so it's not impossible it's one of them although I'd
incline towards Maurice Fussey on the current evidence.
#Post#: 1639--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: olddeagle
Date: October 11, 2018, 9:13 am
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The photo below is definitely Maurice Fussey, although he's
adopted a more restrained white turnover style. Bootlace style
still as per the original picture though.
My money's still on him in the Oldham photo.
Showing my age maybe, but I also wore long white turnovers and
white laces when I started.....
#Post#: 1641--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who was the referee? Appeals for information
DIR By: Acme Thunderer
Date: October 11, 2018, 10:38 am
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--- Quote from: Left Field link ---
>
> Re the mid-1960s picture, the referee looks to me (in common
with AT) as if he has a moustache and a slightly different
hairstyle to Maurice Fussey but these things can change over
time. Having checked some other pictures of Maurice Fussey
though there is definitely a resemblance in terms of the very
distinctive way the boots are tied (with white laces) and the
long turnovers as the picture below from around 1970 shows:
>
> [attachimg=1]
>
> Maybe though this way of typing boots wasn't so unusual and
certainly the long white turnovers were not uncommon at the time
although they seemed to disappear very early in the 1970s. Going
back to the mid-1960s there are still quite a number of
referees, mainly with short spells on the list, who are little
known to us so it's not impossible it's one of them although I'd
incline towards Maurice Fussey on the current evidence.
>
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Yes, this is Palace v Spurs in Div 1, and it looks hot enough to
be one of the fixtures at Selhurst Park in August 1969 or
September 1970. Jim Finney refereed the 1970 game (I was there
and is confirmed in mande70's wonderful Div 1 1970/71 thread),
It is very unlikely that either fixture would have been refereed
by a new or short term FL referee, so I am going to go for
Maurice Fussey refereeing Palace v Spurs on 23rd August 1969.
The Palace player in the background looks very like Roger 'he's
here he's there he's every *********** where' Hoy who was the
Palace No 4 that day.
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