eastwood/gower goal

[Uncle Leo]

Quote[/b] (basics @ Jan. 06 2007,19:56)]A fair few angry fans in the shrimpers bar after the match.
When all the 1st goal eastwood punters went to collect their
winnings only to find out booky/pridmore was paying out on Mark Gower

Thank the Press Association. There is a PA rep at every Prem and Football League match and they are the ones - potentially with the help of their press box colleagues - who determine the goalscorers.

Most bookmakers, in turn, will pay out on whatever the PA say.

 

[sufcintheprem]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Jan. 08 2007,09:34)]

Quote[/b] (basics @ Jan. 06 2007,19:56)]A fair few angry fans in the shrimpers bar after the match.
When all the 1st goal eastwood punters went to collect their
winnings only to find out booky/pridmore was paying out on Mark Gower

Thank the Press Association. There is a PA rep at every Prem and Football League match and they are the ones - potentially with the help of their press box colleagues - who determine the goalscorers.

Most bookmakers, in turn, will pay out on whatever the PA say.

If only I'd bet on Gary Tilson or Phil Parkinson being next Southend manager a while back, I'd have been minted.

Can they really rely on PA when there are so many mistakes? I forget whether it was Tes or someone else but a few years ago, one of our players was wrongly said to have been sent off when there couldn't have been a clearer difference between them. Maybe Petts was blamed for Tes' sending off.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Quote[/b] (sufcintheprem @ Jan. 08 2007,09:56)]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Jan. 08 2007,09:34)]

Quote[/b] (basics @ Jan. 06 2007,19:56)]A fair few angry fans in the shrimpers bar after the match.
When all the 1st goal eastwood punters went to collect their
winnings only to find out booky/pridmore was paying out on Mark Gower

Thank the Press Association. There is a PA rep at every Prem and Football League match and they are the ones - potentially with the help of their press box colleagues - who determine the goalscorers.

Most bookmakers, in turn, will pay out on whatever the PA say.

If only I'd bet on Gary Tilson or Phil Parkinson being next Southend manager a while back, I'd have been minted.

Can they really rely on PA when there are so many mistakes? I forget whether it was Tes or someone else but a few years ago, one of our players was wrongly said to have been sent off when there couldn't have been a clearer difference between them. Maybe Petts was blamed for Tes' sending off.

I sat in the press box once a few years ago and the PA man got the first scorer wrong that day too.

Luckily, enough people in the press box shouted him down and he called through to head office a couple of minutes later with the correction.