Ref watch - Luton

[Mick]

After the plethora of novices and rank beginners, some of whom have been better than others, we have been appointed an experienced journeyman referee in Graham Salisbury. He's been refereeing for a while but Southend have not seen much of him. Just that game at Grimsby.

Has been fairly steady when I've seen him but he's shown a harsh red card in each of his last two matches. (Got it out of his system ... or going for the hat-trick ??).

Not usually a "homer", anyway.

 

[Mr Wooly]

Can't be worse than the referee we had the last time I ventured to Kenilworth Road. Joe Ross I seem to remember; sent Mark Rawle off after about 20mins for feck all.

 

[Beefy]

Didn't we think it was feck all at the time but on the replay you could see that he deserved to go?

I don't know, I try to block that game out of my mind. I vowed never to go back to Luton after that.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

After the plethora of novices and rank beginners, some of whom have been better than others, we have been appointed an experienced journeyman referee in Graham Salisbury. He's been refereeing for a while but Southend have not seen much of him. Just that game at Grimsby.

Has been fairly steady when I've seen him but he's shown a harsh red card in each of his last two matches. (Got it out of his system ... or going for the hat-trick ??).

Not usually a "homer", anyway.

Nice to see us get an experienced ref! :p

 

[Mick]

Nice to see us get an experienced ref! :p

Now we just need to get a result. Our last League win at Luton was as recently as 1964. We'd lost there in the Cup a fortnight earlier.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Now we just need to get a result. Our last League win at Luton was as recently as 1964. We'd lost there in the Cup a fortnight earlier.

I thought there might be some daunting statistic like that. I've only been there once, and that was to witness Freddy hit the post in the last minute when it seemed easier to score :(

 

[Uncle Leo]

I don't know, I try to block that game out of my mind. I vowed never to go back to Luton after that.

God that was an awful day. Quite why I'm choosing that hell-hole as the venue for my first game in a month I don't know :(

 

[Mr. Benedict]

God that was an awful day. Quite why I'm choosing that hell-hole as the venue for my first game in a month I don't know :(

At least it's a fairly close away game... that's the only redeeming feature of LooTown :p

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

I thought there might be some daunting statistic like that. I've only been there once, and that was to witness Freddy hit the post in the last minute when it seemed easier to score :(

Ah, the post that sent us down....

 

[JoshC]

I thought there might be some daunting statistic like that. I've only been there once, and that was to witness Freddy hit the post in the last minute when it seemed easier to score :(

and the bar:(

 

[Kris]

Didn't we think it was feck all at the time but on the replay you could see that he deserved to go?

I don't know, I try to block that game out of my mind. I vowed never to go back to Luton after that.

Similar story with me actually. That was a horrible game. For me it's a fairly straightforward journey to Luton - either a few junctions down the M1 or a train from Cricklewood station - and yet I have very little desire to go. Need to save money for Christmas presents anyway.