I’m posting this here rather than the football forum, because it follows the ‘penalty that wasn’t’ decision at Lincoln, where the ref was clearly making up for the pen he didn’t give.
It got us discussing the various weird ref decisions over the years. For me it was a game I watched in the seventies at Watford, who were playing Bolton, with a young Sam Allardyce at centre back. A Bolton player played a lofted back pass to his keeper, with no Watford player nearby. Somehow it hit the retreating ref’s backside and looped over the keeper for a goal! Cue stunned silence and a very embarrassed ref. The first moment the ball then entered the Bolton penalty area, despite no Watford player being near it, he blew for a penalty, which was converted without a single protest from a Bolton player. Similar circumstances I guess to that own goal in our cup game at Yeovil, where Johnson instructed his team to let us score from the kick-off.
It got us discussing the various weird ref decisions over the years. For me it was a game I watched in the seventies at Watford, who were playing Bolton, with a young Sam Allardyce at centre back. A Bolton player played a lofted back pass to his keeper, with no Watford player nearby. Somehow it hit the retreating ref’s backside and looped over the keeper for a goal! Cue stunned silence and a very embarrassed ref. The first moment the ball then entered the Bolton penalty area, despite no Watford player being near it, he blew for a penalty, which was converted without a single protest from a Bolton player. Similar circumstances I guess to that own goal in our cup game at Yeovil, where Johnson instructed his team to let us score from the kick-off.