I think his Three Lions badge at that point was for running the line in a Scotland-Portugal friendly. Although the badges were given for taking part in major domestic finals they could also be for international appointments.

David Richardson (Clayton-le-Dale near Blackburn) is the referee.

In March 1980 Kevin Bond scored own goals in consecutive weeks, then scored another at the end of April!

You're right that the lack of video means that all these memories remain intact, not just about supposed refereeing errors but other things that happened in games. A goal that's remembered as "amazing" may have been nothing special. Maybe people need to cling on to these illusions (or delusions).

I think every club has at least one referee who they see as notorious, usually just on the basis of one match, not a series of games. Good performances are forgotten, bad ones (real or imagined) can stick in the mind permanently.

To add to that mix Gordon Kew was born in South Shields but raised in Scotland. He moved to Leeds as that was the home city of his wife (who was the daughter of a Football League referee). Clearly he was very used to moving around!

David Hutchinson was based in Witney in Oxfordshire at that time but started his League line career in Cambridge, his home city. As a League ref he was based in Bourn (Cambridgeshire), Harrogate and then Marcham near Abingdon, a contender for the most travelled FL official!

Play ended just after this incident and we had the bizarre spectacle of one of the Birmingham players leaving the pitch with the ball stuffed under his shirt! Not sure what the reasoning for that was but it brought a smile to the face!

Referee is Englishman Reg Leafe (Nottingham). One of his distinctive features seen here was having a band of black above the white turnovers on his socks. Some later English refs such as Gordon Hill echoed this style.

The referee is Piet Roomer of the Netherlands. Stanley Matthews was 48 at the time of this game and continued to play for another couple of years.

Bobby Davidson did indeed retire in 1976.

That's right.

Aided by the match programme the linesmen are John Hazell (Colchester, cerise flag) and R.I.C. Thomas (Southampton, right of picture). John Hazell can often be seen in these Big Match TV games as he was based not far from London.

You're right that he was promoted to referee in 1958 & on the line 55-58 (no supplementary list at that time). Programme profiles are generally very accurate with referees' names but not quite so good with dates. As with so many things it's best to have a few sources to check details.

That's quite an early picture of Clive Thomas with the Welsh FA & AFLRL badges, later he was seen with just the FIFA badge.

Harold Davey did indeed move around quite a bit earlier in his FL career although almost always around Nottinghamshire aside from the 1967-1968 season in Verwood in Dorset. He worked in the building trade which might have influenced the moves. This is a very good profile of him from Jan 1972.

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