NEVER a problem on Arngrove Northern League duty, but referee Ross Joyce needed a police escort following a Women's Premier League cup-tie at the weekend.It happened after the match between Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea, in which 20-year-old Ross, from Middlesbrough, had ordered the Rovers manager from the dugout and sent off two of Blackburn's unfair sex for second cautionable offences.Amid angry post-match scenes, officials called police after becoming concerned for the referee's safety.
abercrombie clothingThe match was at Clitheroe FC.Handbags? "It was a right kerfuffle, " said Rovers spokesman Marek Walsh. "It wasn't just the Blackburn supporters, the Chelsea fans were just as upset."Ross, in his second season as an ANL referee but still just a Clitheroe kid, has reported the incident to the FA. "There was an altercation in the tunnel area and suddenly three or four police officers appeared, " he says."I'm not allowed to comment in detail, but it was a bit intimidating.A number of players were coming towards me. That sort of thing has never happened in the Northern League."An FA spokesman said that they'd received the referee's report on "a number of incidents" both during and after the game. "They will be urgently considered. Whatever form of the game, whatever gender, we take misconduct very seriously."ACROSS the road from this very office, the cheap and cheerful new William Stead pub had its most distinguished visitor yesterday afternoon. Paul Gascoigne ambled in almost unnoticed, drank what appeared to be water and spent half an hour on the bandit before leaving.THE precipitous joys of cricket at Spout House, High Farndale and Gillamoor will be on offer next season, after all.The six clubs in the magnificent Feversham League, where grass roots grow deep, decided at an extraordinary meeting last week that the North Yorkshire village tradition would continue.The others are Slingsby, Wombleton and Harome, who this summer won the league, top-four play offs and Lady Feversham Cup.Next season, says league press officer Charles Allenby, they hope to add a Supplementary Cup in which the number of individual overs bowled and runs scored will be restricted, to provide a chance for those accustomed to a lesser role.He's working, meanwhile, on the column's next visit to those undulating acres. High Farndale majestically tops the agenda.ALMOST unnoticed amid the English breast beating, Armenia held Finland to a goalless draw in Group A of the European Championship on Saturday, before a crowd of 7,500.The modern day Armenia is reckoned the likely site of the Garden of Eden. For Ian Porterfield, it was probably only half way to paradise.Sunderland's goal scoring hero of the 1973 FA Cup final is continuing his global football education, as we noted the other week, by becoming Armenia's national coach.The Armenian league has just eight teams, three of which are contemplating academies. There's not a lot of choice."Armenian football is relatively new, " says Porterfield. "The future, if not the immediate future, is bright. It would be an unbelievable feat for us to finish in the top two; I'd just like us to be respected."After a 1-0 defeat to Belgium, the Finnish product puts them above Azerbaijan on goal difference and a point behind Kazakhstan with a game in hand.Porterfield's now 60, began his world tour in Zambia, where he was given the freedom of the country, and has also managed in Zimbabwe, Trindad and Tobago, Oman, Saudi Arabia and most recently with Busan Icons in South Korea."I work hard at my job. It's my life and my hobby, " he says. "I hope there's four or five years travelling in me yet."PERENNIALLY pointless - played six, lost six - our friends at The Hole in the Wall FC went down yet again, 3-0 or so they thought, to Hogans, another pub side in Darlington.The only problem was that the referee reported to the league that they'd lost 4-0 and Hogans' team sheet listed fi
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