Apron J Thick 0 Posted November 24, 2007 Just back from the match. Was it me, or have I just witnessed the mostinept, ridiculous display from a referee ever seen at ncfc? Andy D''Ursowas unbelievable - what have we done to him? Stolen his cat? Cursed hisMum? Maybe he had a bad trip on the Broads or something. Poor old Dionwas getting slammed, pushed, barged and he kept blowing up against him- this was just the tip of the iceberg. Bad refs usually foul up bothteams decisions - for some reason this joker''s foul-up ratio washeavily against Norwich. Still, it did stir the crowd, bench and teamand spurred us on to an excellent win. On a more positive note - what a great result on the day thatcommemorated Graham Paddon - he would have loved to have been outthere...Loud and Proud to be OTBC!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Syteanric 1 Posted November 24, 2007 true story about Andy d''urso.... Few years ago a mate of mine was involved with a non league side in Leicestershire.. cant remmeber but i think it was Hinckley... was a volunteer at the club.. this is about 7 years ago now..... they had an FA cup game against Billericy town, D''urso is from Billericy.... anyway mate was sitting in the stands watching the game and saw D''urso and went over for a chat with him.. turns out that, as he lives in Essex, he follows Billericy closely and is infact an Ipswich fan.. he hates us with a passion and looks forward to "reffing" our games...jas :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Branston Pickle 3,657 Posted November 24, 2007 That would explain a lot, Jas! I''m not really one for having a go at the ref as they do have a really thankless task, but some of the decisions today were unbelievable - for me Cov committed the 5 worst tackles in the game yet we came away with the only the booking (that I saw); there were continuous barges/pushes/leading with the elbow challenges from Adebola - none given, handballs ''not seen'' (including a blatant pen), and playing on when there were 2 balls on the pitch and one side had clearly stopped playing. All in all a particularly poor performance from D''urso but par for the course when reffing us! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iwan is God 0 Posted November 25, 2007 [quote user="jas the barclay king"]true story about Andy d''urso.... Few years ago a mate of mine was involved with a non league side in Leicestershire.. cant remmeber but i think it was Hinckley... was a volunteer at the club.. this is about 7 years ago now..... they had an FA cup game against Billericy town, D''urso is from Billericy.... anyway mate was sitting in the stands watching the game and saw D''urso and went over for a chat with him.. turns out that, as he lives in Essex, he follows Billericy closely and is infact an Ipswich fan.. he hates us with a passion and looks forward to "reffing" our games...jas :)[/quote]I do hope that was meant as tounge in cheek, Jas? If true however, it would explain todays shocking decisions!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Delias Tasty Nibblets 0 Posted November 25, 2007 Did anyone else notice the move where we had a player brought down about 35 yards out, but he''d already played the ball out wide right where we had a good two on one situation, Mr D''urso let play go on for a second, saw we were in a good situation but blew up...then proceeded to do up his laces before we could take the freekick....Could he have seriously blown up because he saw his laces were undone? Either way it was a terrible decision. Unbelievable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Desi Rascall 0 Posted November 25, 2007 He also turned down a penelty and booked Huckerby for diving last season, accused of bias by Gus Poyet,and also suspended for failing to send off a player booked twice in the same match.The blokes a prize idiot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mello Yello 2,293 Posted November 25, 2007 [quote user="jas the barclay king"]true story about Andy d''urso.... Few years ago a mate of mine was involved with a non league side in Leicestershire.. cant remmeber but i think it was Hinckley... was a volunteer at the club.. this is about 7 years ago now..... they had an FA cup game against Billericy town, D''urso is from Billericy.... anyway mate was sitting in the stands watching the game and saw D''urso and went over for a chat with him.. turns out that, as he lives in Essex, he follows Billericy closely and is infact an Ipswich fan.. he hates us with a passion and looks forward to "reffing" our games...jas :)[/quote]So D''@arseole, is a Dick-y from Billericay......... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kdncfc 0 Posted November 25, 2007 I know it''s not easy being a ref but his performance yesterday was absolutely diabolical, until yesterday I never thought it was possible to get so many decisions wrong in a single match, what a clown he is. But then if he is an Ipshite fan that explains everything, he gave Coventry nearly everything especially in the first half. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sing Up The South Stand 0 Posted November 25, 2007 To be fair, I once watched Ipswich (don''t ask) play QPR at Portman Road, and D''urso was awful that day as well, not just in Ipswich''s favour.He really is poo, I don''t see why just because the prem don''t want him the football league have to have him, no league deserves a referee like that. In fact it''s beggars belief he was a prem ref for a while! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buncey 1 Posted November 25, 2007 The stone-wall penalty was the thing for me. Even some of the coventry fans had their heads in their hands. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unlucky Fried Kitten 0 Posted November 25, 2007 I was intrigued to hear that D'' Urso could be a closet scummer, jas - they have to have at least one fan. Ok, therefore he should never ref a Norwich v Ip**it match or any matches the scum play, but surely he shouldn''t be the ref for any City match either? Perhaps somebody should write to The Football League to point out his allegiance to that bunch of clowns, to prevent any conflict of interest in the future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Syteanric 1 Posted November 25, 2007 stories 100% true... and the FA dont give 2 jots who a ref supports.... Some of u wont be too shcoked to know Graham Poll ins a man utd fan.. hence his sending off of a certain England captian last season at the bridge....jas :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ca 1 Posted November 25, 2007 Find that hard to believe Jas because you ask any Ippo fan which ref thay hate most and who gives the most decsisions against them and I''ll bet you that 90% of them will say D''urso. They hate him with a passion.Also I know a ref and they have to declare which team they support on their contracts and they then aren''t allowed to ref any of their games, thats what he told me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenTshirt 2 Posted November 25, 2007 [quote user="jas the barclay king"]stories 100% true... and the FA dont give 2 jots who a ref supports.... Some of u wont be too shcoked to know Graham Poll ins a man utd fan.. hence his sending off of a certain England captian last season at the bridge....jas :)[/quote]The FA do give two hoots - refs have to be very clear about any allegiances they may hold.And Graham Poll is a QPR fan - he was once accused of being a Chelsea fan just before the 2000 FA cup final (chelse v villa) but never a Man Utd fan.And guess what .... D''Urso was actually the referee when we beat Utd 2 nil in 2005!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tangible Fixed Assets anyone? 0 Posted November 25, 2007 Then there was the incident in the second half when two balls were on the pitch. He seemed as if he was as about to stop play and I noticed some of our players seem to halt expecting him to stop the game. However the game carried on as Coventry attacked our defence. Thankfully a goal wasn''t scored. What an awful referee. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sing Up The South Stand 0 Posted November 25, 2007 [quote user="greenTshirt"]And guess what .... D''Urso was actually the referee when we beat Utd 2 nil in 2005!![/quote]The ref that day was Howard Webb, not Andy D''Urso Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mello Yello 2,293 Posted November 25, 2007 [quote user="Mark Rivers..."][quote user="greenTshirt"]And guess what .... D''Urso was actually the referee when we beat Utd 2 nil in 2005!![/quote]The ref that day was Howard Webb, not Andy D''Urso[/quote]Anorak. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gingerpele 0 Posted November 25, 2007 well most ref support ipswich obviously, they just give us the ref that supports the other team :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
First Wazzock 902 Posted November 26, 2007 D''Urso is a plum.The basic point of refereeing is ''being seen to be fair'' - but he failed miserably by awarding them everything that was going and we got next to nothing he even missed a stonewall penalty when he was well enough placed to have had a clear view of it.But what is even more amazing is the fact that there is someone watching every game he officiates at. What do they say to him after such an inept performance? Perhaps something like dont worry you''ve got another one you can totally screw up again next Saturday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buncey 1 Posted November 26, 2007 [quote user="Canary Nut"]Then there was the incident in the second half when two balls were on the pitch. He seemed as if he was as about to stop play and I noticed some of our players seem to halt expecting him to stop the game. However the game carried on as Coventry attacked our defence. Thankfully a goal wasn''t scored. What an awful referee. [/quote]I was wondering about that. What if they scored and the ball was still left on the pitch. How could he prove that the goal scored was done by the correct ball?+ Patterson should have just ran up the other end with it and scored. Would have taught stoopid D''urso a lesson. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyJR 0 Posted November 26, 2007 What gets my goat, is the Premiership don''t want him as he''s dreadful, and in their infinate wisdom, the F.A decide to use him in the Championship. Once again anything but the Premiership doesn''t matter. Know, nothing about football? Need a job? Contact the F.A, sure to get employment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
