Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Referee attacked at football final at New River
Disturbing footage from a final played at New River, this story is getting global press and shining another bad light on our area. Sad to see such barbaric behaviour at an amateur game.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sickening-moment-ref-is-chas...
Referee chose not to press charges, perhaps through fear of further violence.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I saw this, it is priceless.
My godson has been training as a referee (he's now 16) and he has had instances of school matches with parents storming the pitch, swearing, threatening him with violence (this is for secondary level school teams, not the Premier League...).
There is possibly too much red meat in some people's diets!
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Permalink Reply by Roger on
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... I'm afraid that football has always had the power to generate primal emotions...
It was first banned way back in April 1314 by Edward II when the game consisted of vast mobs attempting to kick, carry or throw the ball between opposing villages. "For as much as there is great noise in the city, caused by hustling over large balls from which many evils might arise which God forbid, we command and forbid, on behalf of the king, a pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in the future," he proclaimed.
During the Hundred Years' War between England and France, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V all thought the game stopped their subjects practising archery and issued laws to suppress it. Scottish kings didn't look upon the game much more favourably and in 1424 James I decreed that "na man play at the Fute-ball".
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