REFWATCH: Reading v Crystal Palace

[Barry the bird boggler]

Referee

Keith Hill



Linesmen

AA Laver
W Linden

4th Official

MJ Amphlett

Previous Reading

19 Dec 98 Reading 1-1 Oldham Athletic
13 Mar 99 Bournemouth 0-1 Reading
11 Sep 99 Bournemouth 3-1 Reading
08 Jan 00 Reading 1-1 Blackpool
05 Oct 01 Colchester United 2-0 Reading
16 Mar 02 Chesterfield 0-2 Reading
17 Aug 02 Reading 1-2 Coventry City
04 Jan 03 Walsall 0-0 Reading (FAC3)
14 Jan 03 Reading 1-1 Walsall (FAC3R)
30 Sep 03 Norwich City 2-1 Reading
10 Apr 04 Bradford City 2-1 Reading
28 Aug 04 Millwall 1-0 Reading
13 Sep 08 Ipswich Town 2-0 Reading
26 Oct 09 Reading 0-1 Leicester City

So no home wins in 5 attempts and no wins in the last 7 games....

Last Palace

19 Dec 09 Crystal Palace 1-1 Barnsley

Last Game

28 Aug 10 Barnsley 2-0 Middlesbrough

Discipline (lenient, average, strict)

Last season: 30 games, 97 yellow, 5 red (ratio: 3.23, 0.16)

[OzBiscuit2004]

Keith "over the" Hill

[strap]

You missed the battle of Bradford 0/04/04, when Dean Windass punched Ivar ... and Ivar was sent off!

KH is definitiely a bit card happy, see below:

[Fox Talbot]

What a load of fantastically dull games he's middled!

Palace at home is often a goal fest - I can recall 4-2, 2-4, 3-2, 2-3, 1-6 and way back there was the record 10-2.

So what's it to be - ref-inspired borefest or tradtion-inspired goal fest?

[Silver Fox]

Keith "Mentally" Hill

[Alan Partridge]

Ol Jeremy Beadle above is absolutely dump. So he should fit in with the football on show.

[handbags_harris]

I literally cannot stand this man. Absolutely useless when it comes to making decisions in important areas of the pitch and important stages of the game. Bradford City 03/04 and Millwall away 04/05 really stand out for me as this man's ineptitude knew literally no bounds.

[Royal_Delight]

Keith "Blueberry" Hill
Keith "One Tree" Hill

[Barry the bird boggler]

You missed the battle of Bradford 0/04/04, when Dean Windass punched Ivar ... and Ivar was sent off!

Thanks Strap, I've amended my list now! I remember that game, didn't Windarse also try to eat Andy Hughes.

That's also no wins in the last 8 under this chap.

[Avon Royal]

17 Aug 02 Reading 1-2 Coventry City

Post of the day.

[Silver Fox]

Idiots

[Big Foot]

17 Aug 02 Reading 1-2 Coventry City
04 Jan 03 Walsall 0-0 Reading (FAC3)
14 Jan 03 Reading 1-1 Walsall (FAC3R)
30 Sep 03 Norwich City 2-1 Reading
10 Apr 04 Bradford City 2-1 Reading
28 Aug 04 Millwall 1-0 Reading
13 Sep 08 Ipswich Town 2-0 Reading
26 Oct 09 Reading 0-1 Leicester City

Went to all of these games except the ones away to Ipswich & Norwich and they all deliver a big from me

I expect us to lose 3-1, conceding a dubious penalty en route and being turned down for one ourselves.

[BR2]

Keith "Mentally" Hill

Glad you said "mentally" and not "physically".
IIRC he's the ref with just the one arm.

[trueroyal1871]

Watch out oxf*rd Beadle's about, I can't stand this oxf*rd another appalling ref this Saturday then. He's gets a lot of key decisions wrong

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Keith ("Pork Chop") Hill

[glass half full]

He has boosted his average card count in this match.....

[handbags_harris]

Predictably absolutely woeful. With every performance I see with this man it leads me to further believe that he is merely on the national list purely as the token disabled referee. Surely the powers that be cannot consider that this man is good enough to referee games based on merit?

[Percy's Rocket]

Have not seen the video yet but were both penalties not denying clear goalscoring opportunities and therefore red cards. The second one looked very iffy but Long was about to shoot and having given it the defender should have gone. There may have been another defender parallel but they were both clear goalscorong opportunities. Overall he was woeful.

[Row Z Royal]

The second was more clear-cut than the first!

Handbags called it right about being a complete fecal sack of a referee, but he got two key decisions right today (brushing the ones he got wrong under the carpet...).

[rfcjoe]

I said the ref would have a big hand in the game today. And my prediction didn't come up short.