Sentence examples for referee from inspiring English sources

David CuRefereelihull, West MidlAnds.

"Er... the referee missed some key decisions... er... we should definitely have been awarded a penalty... we were definitely the better side," he told me.

The Swiss would have been seen to have a legitimate complaint, the referee would have to give a penalty.

However, should the Swiss manager have asked for a review, as he surely would have done, the referee would have had little option but to point to the spot, perhaps producing a red card for Cahill in the process.

I wasn't there, I was up the tunnel, but the referee told me he received a second yellow for acting in an aggressive nature".

Two minutes from the break Alan Mannus saved a weak penalty from the Kilmarnock midfielder Shiels after the Saints left-back Callum Davidson was adjudged by the referee Craig Charleston to have pulled down Gary Harkins in the box.

Dean Richards, Newcastle's director of rugby, had a king-sized rant after the match at the decision by the referee, Greg Garner, to show yellow cards five minutes before the end to his lock Josh Furno and the London Irish flanker Jebb Sinclair.

Games with a strong England, an excellent France and a solid Czechoslovakia team are remembered more now for the head of the Kuwaiti FA striding onto the pitch mid-game to tell the referee that a fourth French goal should be disallowed (the official obeyed).

Rather harshly, the referee gives Germany a free-kick for handball.

He also says the best referee performance of the World Cup so far was Howard Webb in the Brazil v Chile game".

Friends and colleagues would assume I was sulking – fretful about the budget, the traffic or the possibility that David Beckham would end up trotting around a football pitch for one last medley of complaints to the referee, misplaced passes and light tapping of the ankles of agile opponents as they raced by our national icon.