Looked a nasty injury and very rare to happen to a ref. Love him or hate him, hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Well said, we all have opinions on refs, often negative & often rightly so, but if it's as reported by Sky during the game then it's a serious injury and I wish him a speedy recovery.

3 game ban for touching the official?

not nice at all, bentham relaxed caught by suprise leg really buckled under him, wish him well and a speedy recovery

Waldorf & Statler, sorry, Eddie & Stevo said Rovers have not won when Bentham has reffed them this season. Perhaps it was part of the game plan

Just seen it. OUCH....
hope its not as bad as it looks

I saw on Twitter that someone had said he had broken his leg. Hope that's not the case, sounds pretty nasty regardless!

Child next?

Fred Lindop would have just run it off - world's gone soft

Wishing Bentham all the best and a speedy recovery. But is there normally this many collisions with officials as there are this season? There seems to be a lot.

I'm very happy he won't be refereeing any of our games for a while.

Just reported on BBC this morning as broken leg.

Really strange hearing so many people applauding a ref off the pitch.

Hope he recovers well.

Broken tibia they said on Sky.

I'm glad he had a sense of humour about it. You've just gotta laugh about these things sometimes! What was it he said to the medical staff sorting him out? "I best get clapped off or else they'll be in trouble!"

Nasty injury that. Just a freak accident. Collissions happen more than you might think, but usually it's just a push and a stumble. Horrible thing to have happen. I hope he recovers as quickly as possible and with no lasting problems.

He was doing very well until the injury, best of luck to him in his recovery. Any chance we can get him an electric wheelchair to ref in? Now THAT would be a spectator sport!

Classy

I'm sure Dave Whelan wouldn't mind the tyre tracks on the pitch!

Hope he makes a speedy recovery, looked nasty and was in a lot of pain.

I have to say well done to the Pies & Dobbins fans for clapping him off. Deep down we know we can't play without the ref

I hope he has a speedy recover

As much as I enjoyed the chants of you're not fit to referee, it wasn't nice to see.
One of the more unusual things I've seen at a SL game that!

Who would be everyone's choice to step up, for the remainder of the season (or however long Bentham will be out) from the championship?
I'd expect to see a mixture of Tim Roby & Robert Hicks although I'd prefer that big Ginger one, not sure of his name, George something?

While on the subject, whatever happened to that ref from a couple of years ago, he was a young tubby bloke with dark hair. Disappeared from SL after a year.

George Stokes.

Knowing Cummings, he will decide to come out of retirement himself.

Prick.

Out of the Championship Referees I personally think Matt Thomason and George Stokes are the best by a fair way. Roby, Hicks etc aren't bad either.

Hopefully Ronnie Laughton will get promoted for a bit though, get him out of the championships for a while!!

Agreed