English Sunday League Football

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This could just have easily happened in the good ole Chiswick and District Sunday Football League Intermediate Division:

Referee sends himself off

LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league match for eyeballing a player who disagreed with a decision.

Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper.

"It was totally unprofessional. If a player did that I would send him off, so I had to go," Wain, 39, was quoted as saying by the BBC.

"I heard the keeper say 'It's always the bloody same with you, ref. We never get anything'. It was the last straw, but fortunately I came to my senses."

Northamptonshire Football Association refused to comment.

 

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Kind of reminds me of the Python sketch about the "Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest" where one of the contestants runs himself over....

There've been a few refs in this part of the world whom I wish would red-card themselves....

cheers,

stew