Ref Watch ..... Crewe play off 2nd leg

[Mick]

Hopefully the penultimate Ref Watch of the season !

Man in charge is the shaven-headed 41 year old, Darren Drysdale from Lincolnshire. A sergeant in the RAF, he began refereeing in 1988, officiating in the Northern Alliance and Northern Premier League, became an assistant referee for the Football League in 1996, and in1997 progressed to being a Conference North referee. In 1998 he was appointed as an assistant referee for the Premier League, and two years later was given the honour of being an assistant referee to Graham Poll in the 2000 FA Cup Final, he also became a FIFA assistant referee in the same year. In 2002, he became a UEFA assistant referee, one of only three from the UK at the time. He was appointed to the Football League List of referees in 2004.

He attracted some media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five-match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford.

He was dropped from the List a couple of years later and is now in his second spell as a League referee. Apparently he drives a top of the range Bentley with personalised number plates; he can park it next to Ron's.

We have seen little of him over his 7 years; just the two matches - a 3-2 home defeat by Coventry in 2006/7 (2 yellows apiece) and the 2-1 win at Port Vale the following season when Macca got the winner (we shaded the yellows 3-2). Crewe on the other hand have seen plenty of him only winning 2 out of 8 matches.

His card count is incredibly low this season with just 96 yellows and 5 reds from 42 games (12 in the Championship).

Assistants are Adrian Holmes from West Yorkshire and top official Peter Kirkup from Northampton. Fourth official is Dean Whitestone, also from Northampton, who refereed the away match that we threw away at Shrewsbury.

 

[Mick]

Hopefully the penultimate Ref Watch of the season !

Man in charge is the shaven-headed 41 year old, Darren Drysdale from Lincolnshire. A sergeant in the RAF, he began refereeing in 1988, officiating in the Northern Alliance and Northern Premier League, became an assistant referee for the Football League in 1996, and in1997 progressed to being a Conference North referee. In 1998 he was appointed as an assistant referee for the Premier League, and two years later was given the honour of being an assistant referee to Graham Poll in the 2000 FA Cup Final, he also became a FIFA assistant referee in the same year. In 2002, he became a UEFA assistant referee, one of only three from the UK at the time. He was appointed to the Football League List of referees in 2004.

He attracted some media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five-match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford.

He was dropped from the List a couple of years later and is now in his second spell as a League referee. Apparently he drives a top of the range Bentley with personalised number plates; he can park it next to Ron's.

We have seen little of him over his 7 years; just the two matches - a 3-2 home defeat by Coventry in 2006/7 (2 yellows apiece) and the 2-1 win at Port Vale the following season when Macca got the winner (we shaded the yellows 3-2). Crewe on the other hand have seen plenty of him only winning 2 out of 8 matches.

His card count is incredibly low this season with just 96 yellows and 5 reds from 42 games (12 in the Championship).

Assistants are Adrian Holmes from West Yorkshire and top official Peter Kirkup from Northampton. Fourth official is Dean Whitestone, also from Northampton, who refereed the away match that we threw away at Shrewsbury.

Last time he was here the crowd was 9,821. Think it may be remarkably similar this time.

 

[Beefy]

Hopefully Freddy can get a couple of goals tonight like he did in that game against Coventry.

If this is the last of these this season then once again thank you Mick for doing these.

 

[Kestrel]

If this is the last of these this season then once again thank you Mick for doing these.

here here :clap:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hopefully Freddy can get a couple of goals tonight like he did in that game against Coventry.

If this is the last of these this season then once again thank you Mick for doing these.

Hopefully there'll be one more to do.:winking:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Hopefully the penultimate Ref Watch of the season !

Man in charge is the shaven-headed 41 year old, Darren Drysdale from Lincolnshire. A sergeant in the RAF, he began refereeing in 1988, officiating in the Northern Alliance and Northern Premier League, became an assistant referee for the Football League in 1996, and in1997 progressed to being a Conference North referee. In 1998 he was appointed as an assistant referee for the Premier League, and two years later was given the honour of being an assistant referee to Graham Poll in the 2000 FA Cup Final, he also became a FIFA assistant referee in the same year. In 2002, he became a UEFA assistant referee, one of only three from the UK at the time. He was appointed to the Football League List of referees in 2004.

He attracted some media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five-match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford.

He was dropped from the List a couple of years later and is now in his second spell as a League referee. Apparently he drives a top of the range Bentley with personalised number plates; he can park it next to Ron's.

We have seen little of him over his 7 years; just the two matches - a 3-2 home defeat by Coventry in 2006/7 (2 yellows apiece) and the 2-1 win at Port Vale the following season when Macca got the winner (we shaded the yellows 3-2). Crewe on the other hand have seen plenty of him only winning 2 out of 8 matches.

His card count is incredibly low this season with just 96 yellows and 5 reds from 42 games (12 in the Championship).

Assistants are Adrian Holmes from West Yorkshire and top official Peter Kirkup from Northampton. Fourth official is Dean Whitestone, also from Northampton, who refereed the away match that we threw away at Shrewsbury.

If you added in that he was vertically challenged he'd have a full-set, so am surprised to see that his card count is low.

 

[londonblue]

We need him to be mentally tough tonight. It seems their manager is already trying to intimidate him:

Intimidation and Mind Games

Davis said: "I don't want the referee to allow persistent tackling on the same players.

I know what he means. How dare other teams tackle them. It's an outrage.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

We need him to be mentally tough tonight. It seems their manager is already trying to intimidate him:

Intimidation and Mind Games



I know what he means. How dare other teams tackle them. It's an outrage.

Keep up! Tackling was outlawed a few years back now, around the same time as diving was legalised.

 

[Mick]

We need him to be mentally tough tonight. It seems their manager is already trying to intimidate him:

Intimidation and Mind Games


I know what he means. How dare other teams tackle them. It's an outrage.

That article is poor. They claim nearly a century of yellows in a pejorative way. It's one of the lowest !! Deadman is well into the 200s.

One player fouling 5 different players is persistent infringement of the laws and cautionable. Five different players fouling the same player is not. Does he want to rewrite the laws especially for tonight's game ?

 

[londonblue]

That article is poor. They claim nearly a century of yellows in a pejorative way. It's one of the lowest !! Deadman is well into the 200s.

One player fouling 5 different players is persistent infringement of the laws and cautionable. Five different players fouling the same player is not. Does he want to rewrite the laws especially for tonight's game ?

Exactly. That was something you taught me earlier this season. However, he didn't say "fouling", he said "tackling"! The fact is, his team is young and not as physically strong as us. He knows it, and he knows that we know it. He is scared that we will use this to our advantage. But why wouldn't we? I don't hear Sturrock saying they shouldn't be able to run too fast because they might be faster than us, and they shouldn't be allowed to use that to their advantage.

The simple truth is both teams will play to their strengths, and, so long as that is within the laws of the game, then there shouldn't be a problem either way.

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

One player fouling 5 different players is persistent infringement of the laws and cautionable. Five different players fouling the same player is not. Does he want to rewrite the laws especially for tonight's game ?

Obviously I'm biased, but I also don't recall seeing too much one sided persistent fouling either. There were just as many tasty challenges from Crewe - particularly the studs up one that their chap could easily have walked for with another ref...

 

[londonblue]

Obviously I'm biased, but I also don't recall seeing too much one sided persistent fouling either. There were just as many tasty challenges from Crewe - particularly the studs up one that their chap could easily have walked for with another ref...

Agreed. That challenge looked bad enough at the time, but looked even worse on TV. Two footed and studs up. I have no idea how he didn't walk. What amazed me was that the player even had the cheek to complain about his yellow card!

 

[canveyshrimper]

As others have said well done on giving us the lowdowns on refs Mick, and let's hope for one more.

 

[Fish]

That article is poor. They claim nearly a century of yellows in a pejorative way. It's one of the lowest !! Deadman is well into the 200s.

One player fouling 5 different players is persistent infringement of the laws and cautionable. Five different players fouling the same player is not. Does he want to rewrite the laws especially for tonight's game ?

Another example of how unfit for purpose football rules are. They should be designed to protect and promote skill. If a team has a particularly skillful player, then it's logical the opposition would want to 'stamp it out'. By targetting that one individual with 5 big challenges from different players they can implement a tactic to spoil the game and prevent skillful play. I wouldn't have a problem with referees being able to use their cards to prevent a specific player being targetted - imagine how many more cards Grant would provoke?!?!