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Referees

Name Base
Dermot Gallagher Banbury

Reading games he has refereed (may not be complete):

Date Result Comments
18/7/2000 Cheltenham Town 2 Reading 2 Pre-season friendly
10/11/2001 Reading 3 Bristol City 2  
21/11/2001 Bristol City 1 Reading 0 Reserve League Cup game
26/12/2001 Cardiff City 2 Reading 2 Absolutely hopeless and out of his depth:
booked Nicky Shorey for "being tripped outside the area";
failed to book either of two Cardiff players where he signalled diving; and
failed to send off a Cardiff player for kicking Phil Parkinson on the ground.
23/1/2002 Reading 2 Cardiff City 1 Reserve League game
27/2/2002 Reading 1 Swindon Town 1 Reserve League game
13/8/2002 Reading 2 Besiktas 1 Under-19 friendly
13/9/2003 West Ham United 1 Reading 0 Very biased to the home side. Failed to award a clear penalty for a foul on Shaun Goater.
28/10/2003 Reading 1 Huddersfield Town 0 League Cup game.

Other comments:

Dermot Gallagher's base in Banbury is considered local to Reading, so for some time he did not referee any of Reading's competitive games. I would like to see a very quick return to that state of affairs.

On 29/10/2001, he became the first of the 24 fully professional referees to be relegated, although later claimed that this was not in fact the case. His next game was Reading against Bristol City, although I believe that he was scheduled to take charge of that game even before being relegated. His performance in our 3-2 win suggested that he should be further demoted.

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