Re: Wycombe home thread.
 

The standard may have gone down but they do not seem as bad if you go to a non stanley game as a neutral.

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have to disagree with that i watch all matches on tv and all divisions it is to me.

Re: Wycombe home thread.
 

The game is a lot faster now, the Ref's are not. As for the liners, spec savers.

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Think one thing that refs have improved on is their physical fitness that has been pushed so much by the powers at the top instead of man management. We can all remember the tubby looking refs of the past who rarely kept up with play but never missed much and were more able to sort out situations before they actually occured. They had feelings for a game and not just a knowledge of the laws of the game they could recite backwards. As for the linesmen, there duties should be written in stone and not to the whim of the ref in charge.

Re: Wycombe home thread.
 

Aye,
There were more personalities in them days, but certainly some whims. Clive Thomas had a very personal take on the laws for instance. I remember that he somehow got into his head that he couldn’t blow for time with a player about to take a corner but would do so when the ball was in mid-flight, which caused some problems in the 78 WC, as Brazil scored just as the signal came. And he had a few more whims.

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my main gripe with thomas was his attitude when he got a bang average div.4 game. he showed no interest from the start and seemed to let anything go unlike in a top tier match. think harold hackney was one of my favoutites. he was a guest speaker at a refs ass. meeting when all this long warm ups came into being. when someone asked him what he did in the warm ups his reply was first five minutes of the half lad. next question. one of the reasons i took up the whistle was david ellary thinking i could never be that bad after seeing him live. doing the exact opposite to what he would have done helped me no end.

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yes, that funny movement he made at the kick off just to get noticed.

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Is Kettle his love-child? :eek: