iirc, we played Hull KR at home, a few weeks later (severely depleted, with Mick Blacker and Gary Stephens as HBs on loan, as we literally had no players left), and guess who was reffing that night. Yes, the one and only Biased Billy Thompson. Guess what. He "made love to us, energetically" that night, too.
I'm with biscuit on the Wigan thing. They got the big decisions in those days (still do).
David "smug lover" Oxley and his acolytes at the RFL got what they wanted in those days. 2 VERY strong Humberside teams. And "woe be tide" anyone else. Refs (and their preferred/instructed by the RFL, teams) got away with murder, as there was precious little screened coverage of our game, so out and out cheating could be glossed over.
Say what you want about Sky, at least our game gets a lot more coverage now, so blatant bias can't be swept under the carpet.
As I've said many times on these boards re reffing standards today compared to the 80's, when posters say "oh no, it's Child this week".......
......YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD.
I pity to think what our sub 35 year-olds would think of Thompson/Kershaw/Lindop/Smith/Whitfield/Campbell.
There's a few more turd names for you to mull over, biscuit. Try not to throw things. I'm over it now. I hope you are, too
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