Readings "goal that never was".........

I read about it in the paper today and there was a picture of the 3 officials walking off the pitch at the end of the half.
The lines man who gave the dodgy advise to the ref was called Nigel Bannister and looks a lot like a bloke from Barnsley that used to ref local league matches.
Anyone know if he's the same bloke?

If it is he'll probably be at a park near you this Sunday

 

Now that you mention it..

I played Sunday league football this weekend (Wakefield Athletic vs Hemsworth MW) and at half time (when I was apologising to the referee for giving him a volley of 1st half abuse) he asked me whether I'd seen the Reading v Watford goal, as the linesman who gave it used to work at their club at Hemsworth.

So he is defo a local guy.

 

is this him??

http://www.refworld.com/referee/4/2

 

Yes its same bloke

He used to referee us in Donny senior league. Hes from Upton I think. Sound bloke as well as i remember.

 

Mate reacons he's been 4th official at Oakwell last season so I might have a trawl through the old programmes just to find out.

 

Out of the two, the referee is more to blame and should take the more severe punishment

If the linesman was looking along the line then it is hard for him to tell whether it was behind or in front of the post but the referee had a perfect view and should have overruled the assistant or even better just asked him at exactly which point it went into the net, the linesman would have said that it was when the ball was put forward by the attacker from the corner and the ref would have/should have realised at that point what had happened.
Instead the ref took the easy way out and ignored the entire stadium, all 22 players and his own eyes and just believed an assistant because it was easier to do so knowing that after the game he could blame the linesman.

 

The fact the linesman didn't twig something is slightly alarming though. By his reckoning, if the ball was in the net, why on Earth would an attacking player hook it back into play?

 

Incredible isn't it

and just shows that officials today are so far up their own arses that they refuse to listen to reason.

 

Thats him.............

Unfortunate turn of phrase in his write up though.

What are the required skills to being a good referees assistant?
"The ability to blank out"

Well he certainly managed that on Saturday alright

 

Steve Coppell says.............

he wouldn't mind if Watford wanted to replay the match.
Should that go without saying that the match should be replayed, or does that open too big a can of worms to contemplate?

 

What about this guy?????????

http://www.refworld.com/referee/146/1

 

RE: What about this guy?????????

He's bad, but I dont think even he's dropped a rickitt of the same size as Saturdays clanger.
The only other one I've ever seen as bad is the one on You tube from the Scottish league game.

 

I don't think it should be replayed

Afterall it was simply a refereeing decision that was incorrect. If you play that game again then surely any game where a player was incorrectly sent off should be replayed as well because that really damages your chances of getting anything from the game, especially if it happens early on.

It's too late now for the Reading players to start saying that they will happily play the game again, they should have made a stand on saturday and told the referee that there was no goal. The game had not kicked off again and he decision could have been reversed but they let the referee make the bad call when they knew it was wrong.

 

Quite agree.............

Both teams would happily have accepted a bad decision in their favour,
which probably gets to the heart of the problem with Football in general.
Winning by fair means or foul is everything, and the spirit of the "game" is all but dead.

 

RE: Quite agree.............

Exactly, they should've let Watford score straight from the kick off then everything's ok, problem solved!

 

Exactly

And we only have to look at our very own Brian Howard for a prime example of a player that is only too happy to go to ground at the slightest thing when he could stay on his feet.

It is killing the game and has been slowly for the last 10 years or longer.

 

They would have been in trouble for that though

There are rules against it, regardless of the reasons. The thing is that they should have been honest to the ref and linesman when it happened, gone over and said "look ref it didn't go in the net, it went behind for a goal kick but I tried to hook it back into play, I was about 4 yards wide of goal". Both referee and linesman would have realised what had happened and given the goal kick instead.

but no, winning was more important at the time.

 

RE: They would have been in trouble for that though

Not so sure about that, I can remember a team doing it a couple of seasons ago. No idea who or what the circumstances were though. Nice goal bonus for whoever gets it though!