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East_Stand_Loopy
East_Stand_Loopy Posts: 2,205
in General Charlton
A little birdie tells me Andy D'Urso is the referee on Saturday...
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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,826
    great
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,283
    Charlton Athletic v Millwall (12:15)
    ANDY D'URSO
    Paul Harris and Dean Treleaven
    Fourth Official Iain Williamson
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,976
    Sky might as well change the title of the program from Charlton v Millwall to the Andy D'Urso show
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,826
    Lets hope he's as bad for them as he usually is for us.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,683
    Probably be postponed at 12 noon then...
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    Wouldn't mind if he sent off Shittu within 10 minutes...
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Vim, (Alan), Den, Colin and Spider.
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,864
    Burning, Looting, Raping, Shooting...
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,016
    Urgh.
    Not looking forward to this one. They always have the hoodoo on us.
    1-0 Millwall. Rubbish game. Deflected winner.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,817
    out of interest, does anyone have any stats that show our results in the games that he has been the referee ??

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    golfaddick said:

    out of interest, does anyone have any stats that show our results in the games that he has been the referee ??

    No.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    golfaddick said:

    out of interest, does anyone have any stats that show our results in the games that he has been the referee ??

    http://www.soccerbase.com/referees/referee.sd?referee_id=138&season_id=142
  • Sparrows Lane Lion
    Sparrows Lane Lion Posts: 2,797
    His appointment has got the same reaction from us, not a fan of some of his previous decisions!
  • East_Stand_Loopy
    East_Stand_Loopy Posts: 2,205
    Sparrows Lane Lion said:

    His appointment has got the same reaction from us, not a fan of some of his previous decisions!

    Have you had him yet this season?

    He was the referee for our first game of the season against Bournemouth.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,793
    As long as the ref isn't Terry Hurlock, I'm not bothered. Millwall are due a battering and they are going to get one on Saturday.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,438
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    As long as the ref isn't Terry Hurlock, I'm not bothered. Millwall are due a battering and they are going to get one on Saturday.

    They got one last Saturday.

  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,070
    Rizzo said:

    MuttleyCAFC said:

    As long as the ref isn't Terry Hurlock, I'm not bothered. Millwall are due a battering and they are going to get one on Saturday.

    They got one last Saturday.

    Think he means they should be due one EVERY game!! At least, that's how I would read it!!! ;-)
  • AidenTheAddick
    AidenTheAddick Posts: 1,061
    cafc999 said:

    Sky might as well change the title of the program from Charlton v Millwall to the Andy D'Urso show

    Or the Andy D'Urshow
  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,799
    Hope you have a good game Andy, as usual. Apologies for some of the idiotic remarks on here from non-referees.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,283
    PeterGage said:

    Hope you have a good game Andy, as usual. Apologies for some of the idiotic remarks on here from non-referees.

    When did D'Urso start reading Charlton Life?

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,034
    PeterGage said:

    Hope you have a good game Andy, as usual. Apologies for some of the idiotic remarks on here from non-referees.

    hahaha
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,352
    PeterGage said:

    Hope you have a good game Andy, as usual. Apologies for some of the idiotic remarks on here from non-referees.

    'As usual'. If he does have games good 'as usual' why did the Premier League kick him off their list?

    Former referee myself so its not all non-referees with idiotic remarks

  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,852
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  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,032
    I do think there is a tendency to blame referees for things that really weren't their fault, and to lambast them for mistakes much easier to spot from the stands than the pitch. And with such a lot down to personal interpretation, every referee will always make calls many/most disagree with, possibly correctly, possibly not.

    That said, D'Urso is genuinely terrible. His tendency to be one of the biggest talking points after any given game he referees is not a sign of competence frankly. You get refs who get it wrong now and again, that's human nature. D'Urso seems to be that rare breed who gets it right once in a while... but not that often. He's got Milwall and Charlton both agreeing he's awful. That's not coincidence.
  • Red_Raver
    Red_Raver Posts: 467
    And Stuart Atwell is ref for tonights game!
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Do you think he only applies to work on games shown on TV?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,817
    Good news I reckon - looked at some of his previous games. He was the ref for our 2-1 win away at Wycombe in our promotion season, and the ref the same season in our 1-1 home draw with Bury when Stephens scored THAT goal on 90 + mins.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,934
    I forgot when a 90th minute equaliser at home to Bury was good.
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,915
    MrOneLung said:

    I forgot when a 90th minute equaliser at home to Bury was good.

    Ha ha! I remember watching us lose to Bury in a 'home' game at Upton Park. October 7, 1993: League Cup second round; 0-1. Attendance: 2,083.

  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,799
    My earlier message on here was not very eloquent, so let me start again. I have had the pleasure (many years ago) to undertake 4th match official duties at football league grounds up and down the country including Charlton. To get promoted to the football league list of referees is very difficult, competing with many other wannabe referees. They train to the highest level of fitness, they watch videos of differing football styles to establish their best positioning on the day and are indeed very professional. Refereeing is certainly not easy and some decisions are a matter of personal opinion and a matter of angles. They don't bite, swear, kick or dive and generally referee to a very high standard. It is however, inevitable that some referees will be better than others. Turning to Andy D'Urso, we grew up together in refereeing terms (both living in Essex at the time) and he was a most humble and unassuming referee/person;I simply can't relate to some of the comments attributed to his personality on here. Agreed Andy is no longer on the list of Premiership referees but that does not make him, or any other in his position, a bad referee; it simply means that there are a few, very few better referees around. Nobody is top dog in their chosen sport forever.

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