English Team makes World Cup Final Shock
Theres an old joke. What do you call an English man in a world cup final……….The Referee. That will be the case this Sunday when Howard Webb will be the first Englishman to Referee the World Cup Final since 1974. This was when Jack Taylor took charge of Holland in their World Cup Final defeat to Germany. Hopefully though Howard wont walk out and have to delay kick off due to their being no Corner Flags
Howard Webb will be abley assisted as allways by Darren Cann and Mike Mullarkey.
One small side note. As much as Howard is to be congratulated on being the first Englishman to Referee a final since 1974. He’s not the first English man to be involved in the world cup final. Mark Warren was assistant in 1998 and Phil Sharpe was assistant in 2002.
One thing reading Marks wiki page. His place of birth is actually wrong as he is from my home town and after the world cup final came to our local Referee’s Association to give us a talk on the world cup. The other thing that I am really intrigued about is the comment about him only officiating one game in 2005. I was assistant on that game to him and there was no mention of this being the case so I am quite intrigued if Wikipedia is wrong (shock horror).
