Possibly NBA referee Tim Donaghy. He went to prison for betting on games he was officiating. That said, he probably made fewer rubbish calls than our refs do.

Correct. It actually has a number of uses, all broadly similar, and none of them are usually considered derogatory. It is not, and never has been, synonymous with a person's perceived or actual sexuality.

My mate 'Camp Dave' is camp, and is indeed straight. He got the name for having his little finger stuck out whilst drinking a pint of beer - classic campness.

I thought it was child like

Don't know what you mean by open season on me,Chris, perhaps you could explain that please?
Just for the record I was referring to his mannerisms and the 'pink tents' actually comes from one of the Carry On films.
In no way was I being derogatory towards any perceived sexuality of anyone.
What got my goat a little I must confess, was the way the self-appointed PC brigade automatically assumed I was.
Back on topic, I'm still struggling to think of a worse performance from a ref on Sunday.

Should have been at our place three days before and saw hicks! Clueless completely! As for child's-yes he was completely garbage but for some of your supporters to claim he had a bearing on the outcome of the game is laughable -he made mistakes for both sides -if your players let that get to them and ours don't then that's just hard luck. The fact that 10 minutes into the game you Get into our half and were given a penalty and you chose to kick, and then did so again tells a lot about the mentality of your players for that game-im sure That wasnt lost on the giants players. How you can call offside from your seats I'm not sure and remember a player is only offside if he impedes or tackles the attacking player. hopefully a rest and better weather will result in less spilt ball-we coukd easily have been 18 points up at half time if not for poor handling-but seeing as its dilbert refereeing on Sunday you can always blame the ref for your loss.

Not so much "discussed" as "disgusting".

Seem to recall you did the same with penalties, hence it being 4 apiece.
It's easy to spot offside from your seat if the players are clearly in front of the ref and start moving before they should. The same goes for not standing square.
All of which your side did all the game but only one side was getting pulled up for it. Probably why the penalty count was 12-2 to Hudds until the last minute when he was gracious enough to give us 2 pointless penalties.
HTH....

Nobody has suggested he made the difference between winning and losing, merely the nature and scale of the loss. And to suggest that a 12-4 penalty count with the last 2 of ours coming in the final 30 seconds of the game had an equivalent impact on both sides is frankly laughable.


You remember that it was 4 all at one point with BOTH teams having kicked two penalties, right?


This is just plain wrong. You're confusing offside with markers not square.


Once again, NOBODY has blamed Child for the loss. Not one single person.