Refwatch: Reading v West Bromich Albion

[Barry the bird boggler]

Referee

ANDY D'URSO

Linesmen

I Smedley
CI Powell

4th Official

SJ Phipps



"Oi, you ain't seen me, right!"

Mr D'Urso has been a league referee for 13 years and taken charge of 466 games in that time. He's booked 1335 players (avg. 2.86 yellows as game) and sent off 94 (avg. 0.2 red cards a game).

Record with Reading is...

16 Aug 97 Reading 0-1 Swindon
26 Dec 97 Reading 2-1 WBA
06 Feb 99 Reading 0-1 Walsall
16 Oct 04 Stoke 0-1 Reading
29 Jan 05 Reading 1-2 Leicester
10 Feb 06 Reading 2-0 Southampton
09 Jan 09 Reading 4-0 Watford
21 Mar 09 Palace 0-0 Reading
23 Jan 10 Reading 1-0 Burnley (FAC)

[Royal_Delight]

Oh no! Not D'urso again! oxf*rd nearly cost us the game against Burnley!

[Row Z Royal]

Just what we need - another big-time Charlie.

[JC]

Just what we need - another big-time Charlie.

Former big-time Charlie

[Rex]

Referee

ANDY D'URSO (unbelievable)

Linesmen

I (80's dance party) Smedley
CI (Cozy)Powell

4th Official

SJ (loose lips sink)Phipps

[glass half full]

Omigosh! I thought he'd been sacked!

[Far Canal]

OMG Roddy Anus!

[Barry the bird boggler]

I think he looks a lot like Tony Hawks (the comedian and writer)



Tony would probably do a better job as a ref though.

[handbags_harris]

You know something's wrong when you get angry just because a particular ref is taking charge of a match

[Terminal Boardom]

This referee is really one of the worst I have seen. He ranks up with the likes of Graham Pooley and Martin Bodenham. There was another one from the 1980s - Lewis - from Great Bookham. He was a right oxf*rd. But then, they all are!

[RoyalChicagoFC]

HNA? critiques of his performance in the cup fourth round encounter with Burnley

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Him and the east stand lino were simply awful. I'd be embarrased for them if i wasnt so damned angry!

[handbags_harris]

Just a typical Andy D'Urso display. Nothing unexpected from him really. He riled me a lot. I expected it, but couldn't control myself when. That decision to award a goal kick for an obvious corner 10 minutes in was ludicrous. And it didn't surprise me he awarded Sigurdsson a yellow at the end. 99 times out of 100 Sigurdsson would have been off (despite the covering defender), but it made up for the penalty decision against Burnley

[Dirk Gently]

How on earth was Olsen allowed to get away with all the balanant dissent, not to mention dives in the area? Very, very lenient when it came to yellow cards.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

[RoyalBlue]

An absolutely appalling display by him and at least one of his assistants. And it wasn't just Reading who suffered at the hands of his incompetence and desire to be the big time charlie at the centre of attention.

How can the FA ask for 'Respect' when they employ clowns like this at a level way above their competence?!

[PEARCEY]

An absolutely appalling display by him and at least one of his assistants. And it wasn't just Reading who suffered at the hands of his incompetence and desire to be the big time charlie at the centre of attention.

How can the FA ask for 'Respect' when they employ clowns like this at a level way above their competence?!

He was poor but so was the lino with some ridiculous off-side decisions. However most of the bad but important decisions went our way(foul throw excepted).

[RoyalBlue]

An absolutely appalling display by him and at least one of his assistants. And it wasn't just Reading who suffered at the hands of his incompetence and desire to be the big time charlie at the centre of attention.

How can the FA ask for 'Respect' when they employ clowns like this at a level way above their competence?!

He was poor but so was the lino with some ridiculous off-side decisions. However most of the bad but important decisions went our way(foul throw excepted).

As I said, it wasn't just us who suffered from the incompetence. A couple of the bad offside calls (and I'm not talking the Kebe one which was offside) went very much against us and were potential one on one situations too!

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

You know something's wrong when you get angry just because a particular ref is taking charge of a match

to be honest, when was the last time you saw who the ref was and thought "oh good - he does the job pretty well"?

[Royal Lady]

The only ref I ever liked was Roger thingy with the greying hair, always had a smile on his face - always let the game flow - he's so memorable I've forgotten his surname.