I remember that with Cowie and O'Connor, think Terry had a huge grin in his face.

Also think during the same game waiting for a kick off and with O'Connor right near the Fletcher end there was a chant of "Terry Terry show us your @ss"...... To which I think he lifted his shorts to show one cheek.

Robin Whitfield used to blow kisses and elaborately bow in front of a baying South Stand before reffing Leeds games.

Good read this thread.

I see the attitudes from supporters has changed over the years.

Tales of Wally Lewis and referees flipping the bird to the crowd are fondly remembered.

Strange that the response to the Sam Tomkins "V" against Leeds was met with a somewhat different attitude.

Sign of the times perhaps? Are we all ultra sensitive nowadays?

Maybe we are but give it 10-20 years and I think people will look back at it differently and laugh about the events

Last year in response to "just a Rob Burrow" Sam Obst turned around and shouted "I'm taller than him!"

A couple of years back at Wrexham Ganson came out to warm up, people were shouting "you fat bar steward" to which he ran over to the stand and shook his belly. He gave us a big wave and another little belly dance when everyone started with "Ganson is a Wire" too if memory serves.

Not a rugby one, but my favourite all time:

Glen McGrath: "Why are you so fat?"
Eddo Brandes: "cos everytime I f**k your wife she gives me a biscuit afterwards"


Also McGrath on the receiving end of another belter from West Indies batsman:

Glen McGrath: "how does Bryan Lara's c**k taste?
Sarwan: "I don't know, ask your wife"

Can't have been the same CC game then when Elvis was reffing, and Robbie had gone off so Sir James had the armband? Sir James, of course, was gobbing off at the ref and Elvis (presumably not realising) said IIRC "Go away. Where's Robbie? I want to talk to somebody sensible..."

Probably the worst come back ever had to be the HKR fans who took a dislike to Karl Kirkpatrick and turned his car on it's roof in the Craven Park car park! He didn't ref at Craven Park for some considerable time afterwards and any away game he officiated he got a rendition of "We know where your car is".



*****Just want to add the alleged criminal damage to his car was a rumour I'd heard. Not 100% it happened but it still got the chant going! Anyone that knows Karl may be able to clarify if something did happen?*****

At millenium magic a couple of Wigan fans sat in front of us started singing "you'll only score in a kennel, score in a kennel" to which Joel Monaghan began to smile. Also same Wigan fans noticed St helens team walking through crowd and started sining " Kyle Eastmond is a biscuit, Eastmond is a biscuit" to which he stuck the bird up at them!

Cant remember the year, but Wire were still at Wilderspool, and it was a Monday night game on Sky TV...

Just after half time, the cameras showed a very attractive scantily clad cheerleader doing somersaults on the pitch!

Eddie said to Stevo.."I'd love to see YOU having a go at that"...to which Stevo replied..."you DO mean the cartwheel"???

Not a player but me. At the Willows a couple of years ago with our small band of London fans. About 4 annoying teenage chavs came and stood behind us giving it some verbal. After about 15 mins Quins were about 20 - 0 up when one of them tapped me on the shoulder and asked "so what do you think of Salford then, not team because we are , but place".

I replied in my best Surrey accent " I have to say it does rather remind one of the set of Shameless". He pi55ed himself and said we would have to down Jockey after the game

The first time I went to The Willows I got directions from a gaggle of prostitutes on a street corner.

Think his wife was dying of Cancer at the time so I believe Glenn was pretty raging.

if you cant take it, dont give it.

Cricket has loads of great sledges.... my favorite one involves the aussie fast bowler Merv Hughes and Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad.

Javed Mianda tells Merv "You look like a fat bus conductor"

Merv then steams in next ball and clean bowls him, stumps everywhere.... Miandad looks up from behind his beaten forward defensive to find Merv Hughes running past him waving his hand in the air shouting "TICKETS PLEASE"

Cricket again, but there's the classic one with Viv Richards in his Somerset days and former Glamorgan bowler Greg Thomas.

Thomas snuck a couple past the outside edge, and paused at the end of his follow through to remind Viv that the ball was "that small red thing, weighs about five ounces".

Richards smacked the next delivery over the stand, wandered down the pitch and said "seeing as you know what it looks like, go find it."

Another refereeing one from years back. I was a kid and remember being at Knowsley Road - I have no idea who was playing against Saints that day - but I remember the touch judge getting loads of abuse about being blind. When a conversion had been awarded, he ran across the front of our stand on the way back to the touchline, pulled out his glass eye, waved it in the air at the fans, grinned, put it back in and then got on with his job! He got a massive round of applause the next time he was near our stand!!

I recall a beauty from Karl Kirkpatrick in a Rhinos v Saints game at Headingley when Karl blew up for some minor infringement resulting in a scrum feed to Leeds.

Sean long said something along the lines of "Come on Karl this is a big game"
to which the Ref replied "That's why I'm here"

Effalump Luakis first game at Hull, got a bit rough v Bradford (Glenn Morrrison iirc)

Ref calls himover for a word and Lee Radford goes along too.

When the ref asks Radders what he is doing, he says , Im here to translate as he cant speak English

Andy Farell at the Boulevard was getting some stick from the Hull fans as to the wherebaouts of his wife. Faz turned round and pointed in the direction of the players wives and said "she's over there"

Like this one



there all still good so keep them coming. Great read.

IIRC Kirkpatrick used to drive a drop-head Saab. Can't see that being turned on its roof, it didn't have one

That was at Knowsley Road. The crowd always appreciate a bit of banter back.

Some of the best I saw/heard at knowsley road was from a group of Batley fans - we were beating them in the cup and at every kick off they'd think of a new song to tell Scully how rubbish he was (this was in 2003, so just after he'd won his two MOS awards).

"You're not as good a Danny" seemed to tickle Paul especially.

Again not really a comeback but one of the funniest things I've seen of recent at a rugby game was at the Jungle, Cas vs. Hull.

It was Michael Smiths first game against Hull since moving to Cas who was famed for his off field antics before his debut for Hull. The full Cas squad were warming up in front of the Hull fans who broke out into "We're on the p*ss with Michael Smith...." the full Cas squad were in stitches!

Love this thread!

Well whatever it was that happened that day he didn't return to Craven Park as referee for numerous seasons afterwards. As 4th official he did though.