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How many Asst Refs/Lineos at a game?


Fosse69

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Never heard of this before. At the Accrington v Crewe game  The Ref and 4th official were injured, so the managers tossed for which touch line the Assistant Ref would run. I suppose the Prem would moan if a Var camera was on the blink.

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Referee Neil Hair limped off in the 22nd minute and was replaced in the middle by fourth official Alan Clayton.

Mr Clayton was injured at half-time and the interval lasted over an hour while both sides discussed how to go forward as neither of the injured officials could run the line and anyone qualified in the crowd had a bias to a particular side.

The second half ended up kicking off at 5.10pm, with the agreement of both managers John Coleman and Dave Artell, with assistant referee Danny Gratton taking over as referee and just one assistant Conor Brown.

It was decided on the toss of a coin which side he would officiate on, which was the Crewe half, while Mr Clayton went back to fourth official.

 

 

 

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23 minutes ago, Heatwave said:

Was 4th official so badly injured he couldn't run the line? It's something I've done in the past and I'm hardly the most athletic of people. 

I would assume so, it took an hour to sort out, the half time interval was longer than the first half whilst they were talking on a mobile to the  FA  in the centre circle. Shown in the BBC2 FA Cup broadcast.

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I think running the line needs fitness and preparedness. The type of sideways movement which is required a lot of the time must use an unusual set of muscles or usual muscles in an unusual way. So do it without practice at the level required to run a line in a professional game with fit players risks injury. 

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