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.

Gotta be thread of the Decade. giggle over nearly every comment.

My favourite one so far! Ganson's always good comedy value.

Season that Sky moved the Quins game in Perpignan at 3 weeks notice so that the game was taking place on the Sunday when most fans were booked to fly back. I rearranged and at half time was walking round the back of the stand when I bumped into Bill Arthur. There were a load of cables leading into a big truck parked outside. Bill I said, which one of these do I pull out to f**k your weekend up? He replied, I think they are the BBCs

You cant imagine any ref these days would get away with the theatrics that Whitfield and Lindop used get up to. Life was so much better in Thatcher's Britain.

One that springs to mind was when Doug Laughton was trying to get Andy Currier to change his tackling technique after an 8 match ban. Doug said 'Andy lad, they can't go anywhere without their legs'. Currier replied, 'Aye Doug, they can't go anywhere without their in heads either'!

Cricketing ones are always good;

Rod Marsh to Ian Botham - 'Hey Ian, how's your wife and my kids'. Both replied 'The wifes fine, the kids are retarded'.

Mark Waugh to James Ormond - 'Who the are you? You're not good enough to play for England' to which Ormond replied - 'Maybe not but at least I'm the best player in my family'!

Perhaps not the greatest sledge but if you enter 'Mind the windows Tino' on well known video sharing site, Freddie Flintoff laughing at the end is well worth a watch!

One good comeback that is quite well known is from Bradford Northern in the early 90s. 'Supersub' Paul Medley had a habit of closing his eyes/blinking just as the ball came to him and so as consequence knocked on quite a bit when running onto the ball. Anyway in one game Bradford were attacking the line and a forwrd knocked on from an easy pass.
Apparently at this the Bradford Coach (I think it was Peter Fox) jumped out of the dugout and screamed 'Medley you useless ****er, open yer bloody eyes!' Only problem was that Medley was sat further down the bench next to him at the time.
Medley says: 'But boss, it wasn't me, I'm sat right here!'
To which Fox replies 'Aye, well you would have done the same thing if it was you.'

Michael Smith was walking back after Cas had just scored against us, when the fans started giving him stick for being fat, so he started playing the imaginary violin because we were getting hammered by about 30 points.

I remember a game at Cougar Park when we were giving London Skolars a bit of a pasting. Early in the 2nd half Skolars Wayne Kerr scored a try. A Keighley fans in the North Stand started chanting " The Number 10 is Wayne Kerr" at him and he obliged with the middle finger salute. 3 quick Keighley tries all ensued all met with chants of "Wayne Kerr! Give us a wave" whilst he and his team were gathered under the sticks, with even his own team mates laughing at him. To his credit he waved back to probably the biggest cheer of the whole game. Pretty much the whole ground started chanting "Nice one Wayne Kerr, nice one son!"

Billy Thompson was reffing GB v France in the 70's and France were giving GB a tough game. One of the GB lads said to Billy "these French lads are better than I expected" to which Billy replied "aye, it's a good job I'm reffing or you might have had a chance of losing this game....."


Another one involving Billy Thompson was when he was reffing Workington v Leeds at Derwent Park and he was only taking Leeds back about 6 yards at the PTB. Paul Charlton said to him "are you going to start taking them back 10 ref ?" Billy said "I already am" to which Charlo replied "bloody hell, if you think that's 10 yards I wouldn't like to buy a carpet off you !"

I seem to remember the 'fat bstard' chant going up and Cowie and O'Connor simultaneously turning and pointing at each other.

Got the whole Fletcher Street end laughing out loud.

Hahahahahaha

best come back by a player has to be in the last ashes series in australia. Johnson for Aus and our Jimmy Anderson having a bit of mouth between each other.

Johnson then says " what are you cherping now mate, not getting any wickets?"

and as you can imagine. Next ball Jimmy clean bowls an aussie player. he just turns and does the freddie flintoff stand. Peach.

There was a good one in the swimming at the Beijing Olympics when an Aussie and American were big rivals for the gold medal. There was a false start and the Aussie dived in while the Yank stayed on his blocks. On the way back to the start the Aussie moved into the Yank's lane before going back to his own. The Yank said "that was so unprofessional" to which the Aussie replied "well I wasn't going to pi55 in my own lane was I ?". The Aussie won.

I remember another good one involving Viv is when he hit Merv Hughes for four consecutive boundaries in one single over.

Merv’s response was to stop halfway down the pitch, fart loudly, and say to Viv: “let’s see you hit that to the boundary!”

Another from Boulevard's Threepenny Stand circa 1980ish.

Bradford were visiting Hull and at one point Paul Prendeville fancied his chances against David Barends. Taff ran at him and Barends simply stood his gound and bounced him straight into touch. One wag from the crowd was heard to shout: "in off the black - seven away"

What a coincidence! Exactly the same dialogue as the Sergeant Major joke that's been doing the rounds since Pontius was a pilot.

Ganson at a magic w-end to Sinfield,who was taking a age to do a drop-out.."HURRY UP KEV,THE HULL DERBY KICKS OFF AT 4"

Also boulevard days...we had a centre called Chris Harrison who was greedier than Yeaman and never passed to Taffy Prendiville..anyway..Harrison didnt play and the centre put Taffy away and he scored..when he took his positon for kick off...someone shouted " taffy..i bet Harrison wouldnt have done that pass" to which taffy turned rd with a big cheesey grin.

Yesterday at Salford the Touchjudge disallowed a David Faiumu try as held-up even though it was clear he grounded the ball before being lifted up by the defenders, when we scored a legit one a few minutes later the crowd were singing to the linesman involved "are you sure its a try" to which Referee Hicks was trying his damndest to control his laughter and ended up laughing as Brough took the conversion , he knew it was a mistake but credit to him for seeing the funny side.

Not the greatest comeback but I found the response funny. Neil Baynes was warming up on the touchline for salford at warrington. A group of young kids were calling him fat and offering him a bite of their pie. Baynes responded "I may be fat but at least I'm not small"

I was told a tale about St John Ellis when he played for Cas against Halifax, just before half time Singe punched the Fax wiger after he had tackled him, ref called Singe over. Singe protested that the Fax player had grabbed his privates, the ref just waved him away. Just before the teams were about to come out for the 2nd half Singe walked up behind the ref and gave his privates a little tweak, the ref yelped, Singe just said, "it effing hurts doesnt it"

A couple that stick in my memory, it was Cardiff magic weekend and a group of us were sat at the front. It was Wire v Salford and from the kick off we'd been giving it loads to Korkidas chanting "Morley's gona get ya" Korkidas drops the ball, turns round and gives us the scariest look I've ever had! Another funny moment although not with a player, we'd been to a World Club game at Huddersfield and coming out of the ground we'd all needed to empty ourselves so coming back over the grassy hill there was a couple of policewomen waiting for us. One of them asked us, "so what have you 3 been up to then?" one of the lads quickly came back with,"wouldn't you like to know". Childishly we bursted out laughing and the policewomen just smiled shaking their heads telling us to move on.

You shot Kennedy???