Greetings players
As promised - The Referee's Alphabet. By British Institution Half Man Half Biscuit.
So the next time it's all going wrong for your team and you're throwing your cheapo industrial strength co-op lager at the TV and berating the man in the middle, while the dog runs for cover behind the sofa and the wife sighs resignedly, stop for a second and consider where the game would be without him. Yes, It's easy to knock the likes of Mr Poll (lord knows he makes it easy) but at times it's the loneliest job in the world; especially after you've just booked that Croatian defender for the third time.
My favourite: U is for the umpire i sometimes wish i'd been instead - you never hear a cricket crowd chanting 'Who's the bastard in the hat?'
Adios amigos - hope to see you Fri.
Tim
Bonus points to anyone who can actually remember Romeo Zondervan.... Rich?
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Romeo Zondervan hmmm
Dutch guy - actually born in Surinam - on the third of March 1959, made 84 appearances for WBA between 1982 and 1984. Then signed for the best club in the land (Ipswich of course) and made 274 appearances scoring 13 goals for the blues between 1984 and 1992. Now a football agent in Holland I believe
By the way - how many points do I get for that Tim?
The wonderful Ipswich Town's ('til i die) 1980's midfield maestro, Romeo Zondervan, was best known for his passing ability, however, this was not in the footballing sense one might expect from a professional midfielder in that he delivered long and short range passes to team mates with unnerving pin-point accuracy. Oh no, instead, this "Romeo" was far more reknowned for his ability to deftly pass his way through the defences of the customs department of many a south-east coast port whilst carryinging shed loads of illegal hardcore pornography straight from the shelves of Amsterdams famed red light district.
On being caught, Zondervan claimed the pressures of living in an unsatisfying sexual relationship with his wife had driven him to commit the offences. His wife was later to confirm his assessment of their patnership by declaring that it wasn't only in the grand surrounds of Portman road where Romeo regularly failed to satisfy the home crowd by consistently releasing weak, premature shots from long distance, before getting anywhere near to being inside the box...
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