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Published Date: 16 October 2007
AN amateur football team has called foul on their Greek referee after he forced them to miss most of Scotland's Euro 2008 win over Ukraine.
Leith Athletic and Slamannan FC expected, through the usual "gentleman's agreement", to be allowed to kick off their Scottish Cup second round tie earlier in the day.

But the referee forced them to start the match on Leith Links - which Athletic won 4-1 - at 2pm on Saturday as scheduled.

After the game, both sides ran straight into a nearby pub, just in time to see James McFadden seal the memorable victory

A spokesman for the Leith club said: "It was pretty disappointing as both clubs had agreed to bring the kick off forward but the referee refused to let us. He didn't give us any reason as he didn't speak very good English. He was Greek and he didn't seem to understand just how important the Euro 2008 game was for us. But our priority has to be our own game and, to be fair to the lads, they just got on with it and managed to keep our recent good form going."



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  • Last Updated: 16 October 2007 9:42 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Euro 2008 bid
 
1

Franck,

16/10/2007 12:15:25

That the mighty Athletic didn't stab and torture the man in black.

His car was vandalised and his family held hostage for three months until he paid them all £3M

Poor Referee, Bollocks to that !!

2

Whats he aw aboot?,

Leith spokesman 16/10/2007 16:52:59

#1 You are totally correct, There is no story, the free press phoned me at work about the game and started asking some silly questions about not being able to see the Scotland game. Don't know where they got their info from can now see how football managers get misquoted all the time.

#2 Referee was bollocks!! worst performance ever seen wish he had a car to vandalise & we paid him £3m for his circus act.

3

Who let the dogs out?,

16/10/2007 17:31:33

Yawn......

4

Yonthing!,

17/10/2007 02:15:19

I hope that when both sides "ran into a nearby pub" that at least 50% of them were sitting down - can't have vertical drinking - bad for you, you know!


 

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