Monday, November 16, 2009

Referee accused of swearing at Nairn player!

Thanks to Station Parker for the following comment:
'Any questions marks over our take on the match on Saturday read today's P&J and The Sun. The referee is pilloried for his handling of the game and little wonder. The P& J acknowledges that the ref was the only person in the ground to see a hand ball for the first Buckie penalty which sparked all the problems and Gregg Carroll the Buckie manager even admits his players were waiting to get decisions from the referee. In the Sun Craig Campbell accuses the referee of swearing at him twice during the match. Referees have too much protection from the beaks. This merits an investigation but true to form nothing will be done.'
After reading that the Gurn rushed out to buy a copy of the Sun as nothing was available online to confirm our incredibly reliable and top quality source's comments. Actually the Gurnmeister had heard from three other sources that the Referee had sworn at a player on Saturday but in normal circumstances that is something you just can't use because folk are normally not willing to go on record with the like. Today however the player concerned has spoken out about his ill-treatment. Isn't it ironic that in the Gurn we have complained before about visiting managers swearing at referees. Anyway here is what Nairn striker Craig Campbell told the Sun:
'I don't want to go into it too much but he swore at me. I said to him, 'you're swearing at me - twice' and he sent me off. He said 'f*** off' twice.'
For previous Gurn reports and analysis of this game or namely the referee's bizarre performance see here.
UPDATE: Wedensday 19.43
'I don't want to be seen to be having an all out attack on the manager, who I think is doing a good job in difficult circumstances. I just don't think any football club can take the moral high ground when it comes to swearing at football.'
An anonymous comment earlier the same anon contributor had said (we don't publish all of it):
'Maybe Station Parker should take a look closer to home before getting on the high horse about the referee allegedly swearing at Campbell.The NCFC manager has just come back from serving a lengthy touchline ban for swearing. As for Campbell, he should have known better. We were down to eight men and clinging on for a draw. No matter how wronged he might have felt, given the circumstances, he should have zipped it and dealt with the through the appropriate channels after the game. It very nearly cost us a point. Hind as captain should have known better than to get involved and given the abuse referees have to endure from players, managers and supporters across the league, is it any wonder this one might have had enough and sworn back?'
Our anon correspondent points to Les's discipline record which is available for all to see on the this SFA doc. Fair enough anon about the moral high ground but these were exceptional cirumcstances to say the least and I think most of those that were present at Station Park, including the Buckie fans will agree with Station Parker's and the Gurn's take on events.
'Warning: comments contain strong language from the start, in fact, these comments contain nothing but strong language!'

8 comments:

Graisg said...

anon, would like to publish your comment but unaware of the details of the first ban. Anything out there on-line?

Graisg said...

Might be willing to use some of your comment but I would like to see those SFA rules first, do you know where they are? Research time and resources are limited here lol.

Nairnac said...

F*****g Ada (as Ian Dury might have said)

Nairnac said...

Happened all the time to Pete and Dud too......

(I know you can't publish this but it's still f*****g funny)

DEREK:
I'll tell you, the other day some bloke came up to me and .....
CLIVE:
What, Tony Newley?
DEREK:
No, no, I don't know who it was, and he said, "You cunt".
CLIVE:
Yeah.
DEREK:
I said, "What?" He said, "You cunt".
CLIVE:
Yeah. And you replied, "You fucking cunt".
DEREK:
I said-, I-, no, well, not straight away, I said, "You cunt".
CLIVE:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, .....
DEREK:
And then he said .....
CLIVE:
..... what'd he come back with?
DEREK:
He come back. He says-, he said, "You fucking cunt". I said, "You calling me ..... "
CLIVE:
You're joking! He said, "You fucking cunt"?
DEREK:
He-, yeah, he said, "You call me a cunt, you fucking c-?" I said, "You f-", I said, "You fucking cunt".
CLIVE:
I should hope so, "you fucking cunt".
DEREK:
I s-, I said, "You fucking cunt", I said, "You fucking come here and call me a fucking cunt".
CLIVE:
I should say so.
DEREK:
I said, "You f-", I said, "You cunt". I said, "You fucking cunt". I said, "Who you fucking calling 'cunt', cunt?"
CLIVE:
Yeah, what did he say, cunt?
DEREK:
He said, "You fucking cunt!"
CLIVE:
Well, you fucking cunt, who are you to say to him that he was a fucking cunt?
DEREK:
Well, what d'you fu-, what d'you fucking think, mate, I fucking de-, defending my fucking self, weren't I?
CLIVE:
Well, no, he come up to you, call you "cunt", .....
DEREK:
Yeah!
CLIVE:
..... that's fair enough, what he said, "you fucking cunt", and you said back to him, "you fucking fucking cunt".
DEREK:
I sa-, well, .....
CLIVE:
Well, what do you expect him to say back apart from, "You fucking stupid fucking cunt!"
DEREK:
Well, I don't-, I don't expect nothing, do I?
CLIVE:
No.
DEREK:
But the f-, the cunt come back with, "you fucking cunt", cunt.
CLIVE:
Well, Christ, .....
DEREK:
I said, "You cunt?" I said, "You calling me a fucking cunt .....
CLIVE:
Yeah.
DEREK:
..... You fucking-", I said, "You fucking cunt".
CLIVE:
Jesus Christ, yeah.
DEREK:
I said, "You-", I said, "You, you fucking cunt".
CLIVE:
Yeah, what-
DEREK:
I said, like that.
CLIVE:
You said it like that, did you, .....
DEREK:
Yeah.
CLIVE:
..... to him, .....
DEREK:
Yeah.
CLIVE:
..... or was he gone by then?
DEREK:
No, he fucking hit me. Fu-
CLIVE:
Hit you, did he?
DEREK:
Yeah, fucking cunt.
CLIVE:
Killed you dead, did he?
DEREK:
Nah, he-, he fucking hit me. I said, I said, .....
CLIVE:
Yeah, well, you can't blame him, can you?
DEREK:
I said, "You, you rotter".
CLIVE:
Yeah.
DEREK:
And he-, he went off.
CLIVE:
Did he?
DEREK:
And he said, "You cunt" again.
CLIVE:
Well, 't's the only way to deal with him, 'init?
DEREK:
Yeah, well, I-, I showed him, didn't I?

Anonymous said...

So Derek was the ref then?

Nairnac said...

To save causing offense like the sofa story, I think you better put a Parental Advisory sticker on the comments link here. Something like
'These comments contain strong language from the start, in fact, these comments contain nothing but strong language!'

Previous complainant said...

Thank you, my blushes have been spared trying to explain to my children sweary words that were not expected.

Anonymous said...

How on earth is Nairnac's Derek/Clive exchange funny? Think the Gurn can do without efforts like that.