3 Feb
I mentioned about the Headbutt by the Algeria Goalie during the recent African Nations Cup Semi against Egypt. The Referee Coffi Codjia has been suspended indefinitely not acting on this during the game, and failing to report this in his match report.
There will be a hearing for Codjia and the goalkeeper next month and both face bans. Given that CAF has banned Togo for the next 2 tournaments for being attacked by machine gun’s I wouldn’t expect a lot of tolerance.
2 Feb
So another game has bit the dust due to the weather. We had a good downpour during the afternoon here and its not really stopped. So a local referee went in and called off tonights game due to Warthogs.
So thats 1 game in 2 months! No game this weekend as Im off to London. So heres hoping for next Tuesday!
2 Feb
This years Carling Cup Final between Aston Villa and Man Utd will be Referee’d by Phil Dowd. His assistants will be Shawn Procter Green and David Richardson, with Lee Mason as 4th Official
31 Jan
I got a call around 11.45 from the home club saying they had concerns over the pitch and the away team wanted to know before traveling. Given that the away club were looking to leave in 30mins and I live 50 mins away and wasnt ready this wasnt going to work. I agreed to get sorted now, pick the assistant up on the way and get to the ground around 1pm to inspect the pitch. While the away team could travel they could at least turn around.
Fast forward to 1.10pm, due to traffic in town I hadn’t got there quite as quick as I first thought. I walked on the pitch in my shoes, boots in hand and thought frick this is hard. I put the boots on and walked the pitch with my assistant and this wasnt looking good. It was fine in places but hard and rutted in others. Looking at the sun it was going down behind one of the stands and it was cold already. One part of the pitch was fine, but all of a sudden you would find hard ruts.
This was off. looking in the paper today there was a fair few off around the area that were off due to frozen pitches, and one that was abandoned at 1-1 (been interesting if one had been winning)
Next Game – Tuesday Night, the re-arranged game from just before Christmas. Which reminds me, best ring my assistants!
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