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Referees

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Clive Penton Woodingdean, Brighton

Reading games he has refereed:

Date Result Comments
23/3/2002 Reading 2 Oldham Athletic 2 Not helped by appalling linesmen
4/4/2003 Reading 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 2 Refereed the second half
18/4/2003 Reading 1 Nottingham Forest 0 Failed to award Reading at least one clear penalty
14/10/2003 Reading 2 Gillingham 1  

Other comments:

Clive Penton works for BT in Hove, lives in Brighton and originally comes from Worthing. He used to be a semi-professional footballer. According to a Brighton fan, Penton's father is a season ticket holder at Withdean Stadium. So why on earth was he put in charge of a Reading game at the end of 2001/02 when Reading and Brighton & Hove Albion were close rivals? Although I thought he had a poor game, I should add that there was no apparent bias.

Even worse was when he actually refereed the second half of a game against Brighton due to the injury of the original ref.

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