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Quoted from lukeo

Did this guy do something wrong or just bad luck?

Just a good player

Talking of bad refereeing performances, does anyone remember Carl Boyeson from when we played Donny in the League Cup in August 2003?

Des Hamilton got sent off for being pinned to the ground while the Donny player who did the pinning (and a bad tackle) got a yellow.

We lost the game 3-2, although one of our goals was a penalty where Boulding was floored one yard out and Boyeson failed to send the Donny player off - just minutes after he'd sent Marcel Cas off for tugging back on the edge of a crowded penalty area.

I'm pretty sure it was Boyeson again who reduced us to nine men in a game against Darlington at BP a year or two later.

Two games, four red cards. And the bloke's from Hull. You don't forget stuff like that!

I remember the Donny game, my only visit to Belle Vue.

We weren't too bad but Donny were a surprisingly decent team considering they had just won promotion out of the Conference whereas we had just been relegated from the second tier. Never played them in the League, however, as they won Division 4 as champions and we were relegated hopelessly under the useless Nicky Fecking Law. Of course, the referee was bloody useless (didn't realise it was Boyeson), but then so, it turned out, was Disco Des and Cas turned out to be less than "aweshome".

The only other thing I remember about the game was various gangs of young GTFC hoolies wandering around looking for trouble. Dickheads.

A real turnaround in fortunes for Donny over the past decade as they've been on an upward spiral at the same time that we have plummeted!  

That Donny game was the 2nd worse refereeing performance I've ever seen - just behind that game against Darlo where Gritton missed a re-taken pen (04/05, not the 05/06 one mentioned above)

Didn't Gritton have to retake that penalty twice? I seem to recall that the referee ordered a retake the second time because some of the Darlington players were encroaching at the edge of penalty area so we were penalised for their misdeeds!

Quoted from RichMariner

Talking of bad refereeing performances, does anyone remember Carl Boyeson from when we played Donny in the League Cup in August 2003?

Des Hamilton got sent off for being pinned to the ground while the Donny player who did the pinning (and a bad tackle) got a yellow.

We lost the game 3-2, although one of our goals was a penalty where Boulding was floored one yard out and Boyeson failed to send the Donny player off - just minutes after he'd sent Marcel Cas off for tugging back on the edge of a crowded penalty area.

I'm pretty sure it was Boyeson again who reduced us to nine men in a game against Darlington at BP a year or two later.

Two games, four red cards. And the bloke's from Hull. You don't forget stuff like that!

I'm sure Disco Des grabbed the guy by his throat and was pinning him down? And Cas' was his second yellow I think? It was definitely the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen though, that Boulding decision still baffles me to this day! Thinking about it more, wasn't the Boulding decision between the two red cards? I seem to remember us winning a free kick, Disco Des getting sent off and then someone hit the post (Anderson maybe?) and Boulding was about to put the rebound in and got flattened, then Cas went off later?

Never seen a ref as bad as Ross Joyce when we played Gateshead in the league at home last season.

Quoted from Abdul19

Have they got Barnet, Bristol Rovers and Macclesfield in the weeks to come? And Eastleigh? And whoever else is doing alright?

Quoted from Tom13

Thinking about it more, wasn't the Boulding decision between the two red cards? I seem to remember us winning a free kick, Disco Des getting sent off and then someone hit the post (Anderson maybe?) and Boulding was about to put the rebound in and got flattened, then Cas went off later?

I think you're right. We got a free kick for an appalling foul on Disco (cue red for retaliation) then we got the penalty a minute later. That put us 2-0 up and I think Cas was redded for a professional foul which gave them the pen to equalise.

Quoted from Maringer

Didn't Gritton have to retake that penalty twice? I seem to recall that the referee ordered a retake the second time because some of the Darlington players were encroaching at the edge of penalty area so we were penalised for their misdeeds!

I thought only once but it wouldn't surprise me. I think midfield dynamo Terence Fleming got sent off that day too!