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Best Football Referee you can recall

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  1. Bigmackem

    Bigmackem Well-Known Member

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    On a different thread I mentioned the Rugby Referee Nigel Owen and how good he was , this started me thinking about Football Referees and my favourite is Collina who was a very good referee , who do you remember as your choice of best Referee during your time watching the game ?
     
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    Collina for me too, I grew up watching Football Italia so I saw plenty of him. Never seen a ref since who commanded respect like he did.

    These days Michael Oliver is the best of the bunch, not internationally but I couldn't name any ref who doesn't work in England. He's one of the few who recognises that the game isn't about him and seems completely neutral.
     
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    Ahem.. cough, cough...
     
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    Yeah Collina and Jack Taylor
     
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    Bank of England 2 Well-Known Member

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    Those were the two who i thought of straight away. Both excellent refs. Clive Thomas too.
     
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    John Terry was canny......:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    Collina.
     
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    Arthur Luty
     
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    Collina for me too. Head and shoulders above any other ref worldwide. An outstanding referee.
     
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    I can also remember Luty, took no ****. That was some years ago so you like myself must be a canny age.
     
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    George Courtney for me in terms of seeing a ref live, especially the way he handled the play off game against the mags, wouldn't let them intimidate him. Collina the best though never saw him live.
     
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    gerard or terry
     
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    Always liked George Courtney met him several times and he was a lovely person , remember the play off at Newcastle when he said their was no way the Newcastle fans were going to get the game abandoned even if they were their past midnight -That told them!!!
     
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    72, mate...first visit to Roker in the 50's just before Sergeant Major Luty retired.....I know he was in the RAF but he just had that demeanour.
    He did a mid fifties FA cup final, might have been 1956.
     
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    A local referee called John Reid when I played local football.. He was extremely competent with a fantastically sharp wit.. I always enjoyed when he refereed games I played in..
     
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    He lived over the road from me when I was a kid - great bloke with a big booming voice was a head teacher at the local Primary school. Tragically his only son died very young from a fall - was a very sad story, poor bloke
     
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    This guy.

     
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