[Sammy Spireite]

The referee's assistant, Nigel Bannister, who gave the 'goal' that never was for Reading against Watford recently was linesmen at Whitby for their FA Cup qualifier with Blyth that ended 2-2.

Every time their team shot wide, the 100 or so Blyth fans celebrated as if they'd scored.

Quality!!

Must have been a very funny spectacle!

[Sammy Spireite]

spireiteblue, on Oct 1 2008, 02:03 PM, said:

What i cannot understand he disallows perfectly good goals and then has the nerve to give one when it goes 4 yards wide

serious for a minute now then, what annoys me is how prem ref's get 'relegated' to leagues one and two when they make bad decisions or have bad games.

So the FL consider football at our level less important??

I can see it now....Well, Mr Elleray, for giving that penalty against Ferdinand when he clearly won the ball were sending you to Referee Northampton against Hartlepool, they'll not mind!........

[Siberian Spireite]

Sammy Spireite, on Oct 1 2008, 12:54 PM, said:

The referee's assistant, Nigel Bannister, who gave the 'goal' that never was for Reading against Watford recently was linesmen at Whitby for their FA Cup qualifier with Blyth that ended 2-2.

Every time their team shot wide, the 100 or so Blyth fans celebrated as if they'd scored.

Quality!!

Must have been a very funny spectacle!

Reminds me of our last promotion season (I think it was then) when we easily beat Shrewsbury at home- 3-0 or something like that. Their few fans celebrated as if they'd scored when they finally had a shot- after an hour or so- and put it over the bar and into the few Shrews fans on Cross Street.

Can't see it being like that when Shrews visit this season......