Sært dommervalg til kampen mod HSV

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›Fisker er ogsaa meget lidt imponeret. "Hvilken linie?"
›her.

Tænk at det skulle komme fra ham...

Anyhoo! I den fortsatte Messias Watch kan det meldes, at han har dømt to kampe siden sidst, begge i denne uge.

QPR mod Plymouth Argyle endte 1-1. Plymouths træner, Tony Pulis:

"I thought the penalty was harsh. There was one before when Hasney Aljofree had Nygaard's shirt and that looked a penalty to me.
"But for the one that was given, the ball just hit Scott Taylor on the arm. It was not intentional."

Meget overraskende.

Og så var han i Chester i går for at dømme kampen mellem Englands nuværende nr. 73 og 85, Chester og Bury. Det er den slags kampe, foran tre et halvt tusinde tilskuere, der gør ham et oplagt valg for UEFA til afgørende internationale kampe for fulde huse.

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Portsmouthmålmand David James har skrevet en - i øvrigt meget læseværdig - klumme til The Guardian oven på endnu en kamp fuld af kontroversielle underkendte mål. I en artikel, der i øvrigt maner til sympati for manden i sort, gult, grønt osv, kommer der denne passage om en af Parkens mest groteske hovedrolleindehavere gennem tiden:

And then there's the theory that certain referees have it in for you. Personally I've never been in the habit of checking the fixture list for referees - it's usually the kitmen who do that, telling us about some infamous game the same referee officiated 10 years ago or insisting that we've never won a game under him.

Saying that, though, Matt Messias is one official I won't forget in a hurry. He only refereed a few games for us while I was at West Ham, but every game he officiated we lost. I began to think: 'Oh here we go.' I knew him from school in Welwyn Garden City and we were a bit competitive. We both used to do high jump and he held the school record. Well, one afternoon I broke it. Except my attempt wasn't official, as it was after school hours. He wouldn't let me forget that: 'I've still got the record,' he used to go on.

Der skal nok være andre der ikke foreløbig glemmer den galning ;-)

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