Yesterday's ref

Very similar to Becchio's at Elland Road in 2012/13 season, good 5 yards outside of the box, barely touched by Sir Bobby no sane person would have given anything more than a soft foul yet the ref gives them a pen and books Hassell and they win 1-0

 

Felt sorry for Halle after that. He clearly slipped and looked as shocked as the rest of us that a penalty had been given to them when nobody was near him. But it resulted in a very good player being booed for the rest of his career when he came up against us. He didn't look for one, but took the flack for many years for the ref stupidity.

 

Softest penalty I remember us having was against S****horpe in about 2008. Howard had a shot in the 98th minute and hit the defender in the chest. Looked dodgy even from a tarn fans view.
Softest enalty against us was I think Coventry about 2007. The striker tried an overhead kick and missed the ball. Bearing in mind no defender was within 3 yards of him, the ref gave a pen. Same happened when we beat Wednesday 2-1 in 2008.

 

The irony is that Saturdays ref has given 2 red cards this season, both of which to Barnsley's opponents.

#TeamsLikeBarnsley

 

Had a good game in the JPT Final

Sent by a one-legged pigeon

 

Had nothing to do to be fair, no controversial decisions, both teams playing in the right spirit, easy game to ref.

 

No, Willard was the ref that sent three off against Liverpool. Cheating **** he was. Bent as a nine bob note.

Having said that, I do recall an article in the then fanzine, South Riding about a ref, don't think it was Cain who once told DW that "he'd get nothing today because of low score you gave me in my last game with you".

 

That opens up two points does that quote. Firstly you'd think views would be said in confidence privately so managers would be more open to what they thought of a ref. Secondly if you got a bad mark from a manager why would you purposely annoy them so you get another bad mark from them.

 

That was the referee Paul Harrison, ironically from Oldham. He allowed a match at Middleborough in early January 1995 to start when it should have been postponed. Pitch frozen solid. Anyone remember O'Connell going down "injured", then white trainers suddenly bring thrown onto the pitch? Anyway, Wilson said they'd given the ref a mark of 2/10, which was basically for turning up.

Move on to April, we played away at Wolves. Brilliant game, finished 0-0. We got nothing from the ref, Harrison, and when Wilson apparently asked him if we were going to get a decision, Harrison said "Not after the marks you gave me at Middleborough".

Last minute of the game, Steve Bull heads a cross back across goal into the back of Malc Shotton's shoulder, Harrison gives a penalty. Its a scandalous decision by any neutral's standards. Sends Wilson off for protesting.

At his personal hearing with the FA disciplinary committee, Wilson stated what Harrison had said to him. It wasn't denied by all accounts. Wilson hadn't used foul and abusive language, something I think Harrison conceded. Harrison never reffed again I believe.

 

Aye, that was him. Absolute bloody corruption.

 

Just gave him a quick Google......

http://www.footballspeakers.net/harrison_paul.htm

http://www.h1club.co.uk/media/filter/original/doc/paul_harrison_new_email.pdf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/football_focus/6431757.stm

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ter-news/life-ban-for-soccer-thug-who-1111928

Any chance our club or WSB could book him for an evening with.....