Refwatch: Burnley FA Cup 4th round

[Far Canal]

Referee: Andy D'Urso
Assistant Referees: N Kinseley & R L Lewis
Fourth Official: P Taylor

Andy D'Urso, from Billericay Essex, started refereeing in 1979 and progressed to the national list of assistant referees in 1990.

He was promoted to the national list of referees in 1994 before moving on to the Premier League in 1999 and the select group list in 2001, but he was later demoted and has not refereed in the Premier League since 2005.

Married with two teenage children his hobbies include music, gardening and travel.




Card record:

2009/2010: Games: 21 Yellow Cards: 66 Red Cards: 1
2008/2009: Games: 39 Yellow Cards: 77 Red Cards: 7
2007/2008: Games: 43 Yellow Cards: 100 Red Cards: 5
2006/2007: Games: 44 Yellow Cards: 99 Red Cards: 4
2005/2006: Games: 33 Yellow Cards: 111 Red Cards: 9


Reading games in which Mr D'Urso was in charge include:

Reading 4 - 0 Watford 09-01-2009 0 yellow cards 0 red cards
C Palace 0 - 0 Reading 21-03-2009 3 yellow cards 1 red card (SHunt, Doyle, Rosenior booked; Rosenior second yellow)
Reading 2 - 0 Southampton 10-02-2006 1 yellow card 0 red card
Reading 1 - 2 Leicester 29-01-2005 3 yellow cards 1 red card FA Cup
Stoke 0 - 1 Reading 16-10-2004 3 yellow cards 0 red cards


Mr D'Urso is quite well known for incurring the wrath of Roy Keane and his mates:


Mr D'Urso does not seem to be the most popular of referees.
You can sign the "Sack Andy D'Urso" petition here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/swfc08/petition.html

Andy D'Urso is an anagram of Roddy Anus

[Silver Fox]

I enjoyed it when he went round Ireland wth a fridge

[Pseud O'Nym]

BBC saying the referee is Mike Jones of Cheshire. Maybe the petition has worked already?

[T.R.O.L.I.]

BBC saying the referee is Mike Jones of Cheshire. Maybe the petition has worked already?

Confirmed by Refworld:

Reading v Burnley 12:45
Referee Assistant 1 Assistant 2 4th Official
Mike Jones Nick Kinseley Rob Lewis Paul Taylor

http://www.refworld.com/news/4/article/ ... 1-10/14434

[BR2]

Mike Jones is normally one for lots of added time so don't bank on being home for the tea-time game.
Also please don't let anyone bring a beach ball to the game.

[Far Canal]

Well that's the last bloody time I do Refwatch...................or is it?

The official FA website still has it as Andy D'Urso for ref:

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompeti ... cials.aspx


but the BBC and Sportinglife.com have it as Mike Jones:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/footba ... 468646.stm

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/ne ... MHD=soccer

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Well that's the last bloody time I do Refwatch...................or is it?

The official FA website still has it as Andy D'Urso for ref:

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/FACompeti ... cials.aspx


but the BBC and Sportinglife.com have it as Mike Jones:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/footba ... 468646.stm

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/ne ... MHD=soccer

I'd be surprised if refworld.com was wrong seeing as it is the official site for the PGMO's (PL refs to the rest of us) and the FL refs.

[Elmer Park]

Jones was the original referee but has had to withdraw through injury so Mr D'Urso is a replacement ref.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

D'Urso was wretched

[Terminal Boardom]

Whoever the referee was, he was dreadful.

[howser]

I have always wondered why D'Urso lost his premiership status !!! no need to wonder after that performance

[Ian Royal]

D'Urso was wretched

I actually thought that on the whole he was fine most of the match. He just got 3 or 4 important decisions for us totally wrong for no good reason.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Dattabout summitup!

[RoyalBlue]

Referee: Andy D'Urso
Assistant Referees: N Kinseley & R L Lewis
Fourth Official: P Taylor

Andy D'Urso, from Billericay Essex, started refereeing in 1979 and progressed to the national list of assistant referees in 1990.

He was promoted to the national list of referees in 1994 before moving on to the Premier League in 1999 and the select group list in 2001, but he was later demoted and has not refereed in the Premier League since 2005.

Married with two teenage children his hobbies include music, gardening and travel.





Mr D'Urso does not seem to be the most popular of referees.
You can sign the "Sack Andy D'Urso" petition here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/swfc08/petition.html

Andy D'Urso is an anagram of Roddy Anus

A very fitting anagram. And after that completely shyte performance today I am signing up!

Can't spot an obvious penalty but then feels he needs to signal to his his assistant that the ball had gone out for a throw rather than a corner, despite the assistant being stood within a couple of feet of the flag! Mind you, the assistant in question was the slaphead in front of the East Stand who was equally inept at spotting a stonewall penalty!

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

Andy D'urso and his assistant were the only two in the ground who missed one of the most blatant penalty decision you will ever see.

Good job we went onto win after that!

[RoyalChicagoFC]

There was that complete phantom call he made late on when Burnley were trying to clear, and one of ours chasing with his back to goal got a slight touch in challenging for it, but he blows up for a foul that he didn't see and couldn't infer from what he did see

If he doesn't see it, and if it's impossible for him to draw an obvious inference from what he does see, then he shouldn't whistle it

He didn't let play continue when Bertrand IIRC got fouled winning the ball in the left corner, gained control and was starting to play it out

I'm not even gonna mention the non-call on Jobi except to say that I've seen worse (and didn't see the one that involved Raz so can't comment)

He was right at least to book Mills and then McCann a few minutes later for much the same thing --you didn't see any more of that the rest of the way-- and Ivar had it coming

Other'n that, he was horsesheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[Ian Royal]

In the position the ref was in you'll rarely see a penalty given for the Rasiak pen.

The Karacan challenge was an awful call. The McAnuff penalty was an awful call.

[bcubed]

I was furious at the time, in fact for most of the game
Such an irrittating little man stopping and starting for no reason and not spotting obvious fouls and inventing others

But have seen our penalty shouts again on TV and I think he got them both right

[AthleticoSpizz]

I was furious at the time, in fact for most of the game
Such an irrittating little man stopping and starting for no reason and not spotting obvious fouls and inventing others

But have seen our penalty shouts again on TV and I think he got them both right

as tenuous as the first shout was.......the burnley player deliberately had his arms wrapped around Raz's midriff....a foul...in the box= penalty

McDuffs was without a doubt a foul...a foul in the box = penalty

I don't care what Sir Steve said on Tv

[Rex]

And not a grey hair in the programme.