Is 48 years of in 2 weeks. What an absolute joke that somebody so old and so obviously unfit is allowed to referee a professional football match. We had people saying that in his early 30s bobby hassell wasn't fast enough to keep up with the game and even have people saying Sam Winnall isn't fast enough to keep up with the modern game yet it is perfectly acceptable for a near 48 year old overweight member of the grey army trying to keep up with teenagers and 20 something's and making decisions which potentially could cost a club millions of pound
We've had much worse than him though...the clown who reffed the previous home game was a real shocker.
He was nowhere near up with play though and isn't it a proven fact that reaction time slows considerably as you get older? As the Southend defenders tried to tricky he ref by continuing to the goal when we had a penalty would it not be logical to say his age could have affected his decision to leave the keeper on?
Perhaps even more worrying is that he's a PE teacher.... Got off very lightly I thought. Can think of many grounds where he'd have got spit-roasted for a 'performance' like that.
The point I'm making is that the decision to give the keeper a yellow card rather than a red and then to completely ignore all the time wasting by not giving a second yellow were down to him being weak and poor rather than middle aged (I won't say old) and rotund.
They have to go through rigorous fitness tests - I'm sure he got through them - plenty of blokes his age running marathons etc. I would be more worried about Southend physio - huge and that's from someone who is hardly slim
He was very quick to give the yellow card to the keeper so I wouldnt say anything affected his decision there. Neither would I raise any concerns on his fitness tbh but he was a poor ref no doubt. Extremely lenient towards them and their gamesmanship. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
