| Unless Jones is assured that Nady will ref that fight, don't hold your breath. |
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| We had a big tournament game coming up and I found out that Rob was going to ref our game. |
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| Tom explained the situation and asked Dave if he would ref the game for him, and Dave agreed. |
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| I pleaded with him to ref our game just so I could show him that our team wasn't nearly as bad as they are stereotyped to be. |
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| But, we have to accept that because refs are humans, unless that is you want robots to ref the matches. |
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| The ref was warning them for most of the game but ended up, with English players pressurising him, carding our guys! |
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| As well as showing him the card, the Argentinian ref makes a rude hand gesture. |
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| Barnetta does his finest Cristiano Ronaldo impression, welling up as the ref takes his name for a hack at Shelayev. |
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| It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked. |
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| It looked an innocuous enough challenge and if the ref gives a penalty for all such tugs, we'll have a cricket score by the end of the night. |
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| If a ball runs out of play or into the goal, the ref is alerted by a device on his wrist. |
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| The goalie retreated, with head bowed in contrition, as the ref showed him the yellow card. |
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| I always remember him as a rather scrawny kid who used to ref our senior games when the official referee didn't turn up. |
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| The ref had run into the goalmouth signalling a free kick but I don't know where they took it from. |
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| Nunzio gets out of a hammerlock by telling the ref that Funaki was pulling on his hair. |
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| It's time for the ref to do something ludicrous and give a penalty, even if the ball is nowhere near the penalty area. |
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| In soccer, particularly if the ref has given a penalty kick, the entire team will crowd around him, pushing, shoving and jostling him. |
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| The ref gave him offside when it looked exactly the same as the previous incident. |
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| He cleared decisively, pumping his fist at the animated and ecstatic stand as the ref whistled for the last time. |
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| It was right on the edge of the area and there was definite contact, but the ref didn't penalise the chippy Irishman. |
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| If this had been a boxing match the ref would have stopped the contest a good 15 minutes before time. |
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| I do not want the outcome of a big game coming down to how well the ref tosses up the ball. |
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| I got a headbutt early on that cut my eye and the ref didn't respond like he's supposed to. |
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| The ref dropped the puck and someone hit it right inside their blue line, right near the boards. |
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| Surely assisting the referee with decisions on foul play would assist the ref as well. |
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| He's a ref and it's gone to his head, he just had an authority thing, whether it was some sort of power trip I don't know. |
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| It was hit hard enough to decapitate him, but the ref hasn't noticed and he's given a goal kick. |
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| Often this is seen by both players and fans as the assistant ref not knowing what offside is. |
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| Well a video ref like they have in Rugby League has been spoken of, but nobody seems brave enough to make the first step. |
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| I can understand how the ref didn't spot it, but the linesman must just have been asleep. |
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| I remember a couple of occasions when the ref stopped the game for no apparent reason and called Nelson over. |
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| It can happen when you play away from home that a ref can think he's got to even the game up when he's already sent another player off. |
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| The replay is shown over and over again before the video ref decides that Owen was very marginally offside. |
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| With time running out and Salford supporters screaming at the ref to blow for full time, Duffy made another break. |
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| Fear of cold doomed them before the ref even whistled play to begin. |
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| I still can't understand why the ref sent me off and I guess he will take it to his grave. |
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| Any ref d erence to past performance should ff not be taken as an indication of future performance. |
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| I can understand the ref calling it off because he was abused. |
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| It proved to be an impossible task, for the cloaked fighter finished the battle with a single backhanded blow as soon as the ref started the match. |
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| There is, perhaps, a natural tendency to blame the ref when things don't go well. |
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| They have already had a confab about Michel, who they swear is a likeable chap, and on condition of anonymity, one ref gave the communal verdict on the Slovakian. |
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| Traci distracted the ref and Douglas hit Daniels with a chain. |
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| The ref has a word with him for engaging in a bit of afters. |
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| Down Fred went and the ref blew his whistle, piercing Croatian hearts as he pointed to the penalty spot. |
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| The next thing I know I have banged into the ref and he has gone down. |
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| At the bell, he attacked and kept firing until the ref called a halt. |
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| He's signalling to the ref that they are to shotgun the beers! |
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| The ref was not between the fighters but he was instructing them to break. |
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| The ref gives Cannavaro a ticking-off but keeps his cards in his pocket. |
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| There will be two minutes stoppage time, if the ref can stomach it. |
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| With the ref having just warned the front rows to scrummage properly, England promptly ignored him and Flatley was given the chance to square the match. |
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| Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty. |
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| I thought the game was getting quite tousy and the way it had gone it was possible the ref might have evened things up with a second red. |
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| But the 29yearold Scot, who once held the WBO strawweight and lightflyweight titles, was behind on points when the ref stepped in. |
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| Is anything more inconsistent than all of a sudden suspending a ref for a missed call? |
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| McHaffie lost the plot when ref Alan Craig sent so many of his players to the sin bin he only had THREE left on the bench. |
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| Special praise has to go to Steven Gerrard for conning the ref and going down like a wet cozzie. |
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| His recent claim about ref Euan Norris making a sarky remark then claiming he didn't hear what was said was nuts. |
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| Sometimes it can be shadows or ref lections, draughty windows or heat expanding floorboards. |
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| The Rumanians were raging when two valid penalty cliam were rejected by ref Joh Rowbotham. |
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| Aberdeen boss Roy Aitken slammed ref Kenny Clark after Dean Windass's red-card against Raith. |
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| Atletico Madrid used every underhand ploy they could think of to win this UEFA Cup tie, from trying to knobble the ref to publishing Bolton's travel details on their website. |
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| Butcher was correct that the ref was not to blame for Hibs'display but Norris had a pernickety night, refusing to let the game flow and flashing cards far too readily. |
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| The Kumasi Asante Kotoko star lost the plot when the ref played just two minutes of stoppage-time during last week's 1-0 league defeat by Hearts of Oak. |
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| I asked the ref to watch on TV and acknowledge his linesmen made mistakes. |
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| The ref called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back. |
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| Extracts from his private memoirs relating to Chindit operations in Burma 1944-5 arc held at the Liddell Hart Military Archives, KCL, ref GB 0099KCLMA Tyacke. |
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