Quote ="cod'ead"I certainly hope things have changed somewhat over the years.
I remember refereeing Tony Banham (RIP) when he played amateur in Hull. A scrum broke up with the front row trading punches and I clearly heard what an opposition player called Banham. Tony quite rightly went ballistic and I put myself in between him and the idiot. I calmed him down by telling him that he'd obviously misheard and the 2@ had called him a "fat bastad" (there was no denying that one). I then had a word with the idiot and suggested that it might be in his best interests to get himself subbed but he was having none of that. Ten minutes later I heard "aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh" from behind me, turned and saw an angelic-looking Banham, walking innocently away from a prone idiot, who was then taken to HRI to have his broken jaw wired up.
As neither I, nor anyone else saw the incident, there was nothing to report.'"
Then you sir are a flipping idiot incapable of doing the job as an official.
Its pillocks like you as to why there's problems in the amateur game.
Handled well and truly wrong.
