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27th May 2014
11:20am BST

Pic via Birmingham Mail
Club secretary Guy Whieldon told the Birmingham Mail: “Most lads feel officials are not geared-up for a deaf team due to communication breakdowns, which cause difficulty.
“The referees are supposed to wave flags while, at the same time, blowing a whistle.
“Most referees forget to wave or simply don’t want to use a flag.”
That might sound like sour grapes, but a player from Sutton United, who played Birmingham Deaf twice and scored 20 goals without reply, backed up their grievances when speaking to the Birmingham Mail, saying: “The ref would blow for a stoppage and they would continue to play.”
As if the ignominy of losing all but one game and conceding so many goals wasn’t bad enough, Birmingham Deaf were also deducted nine points after failing to show up for three games. The video below might go some way to explaining that problem…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKInaNDom4
Thanks to their poor results, meanwhile, they will be relegated to the seventh and bottom division of the Birmingham AFA Saturday League.
Whieldon didn’t want to blame the Birmingham AFA, however, instead lamenting the lack of commitment from the players who did show up in what was meant to be a move to improve the standard of the team for their involvement in specialised deaf football.
We’re not sure if the Birmingham AFA will welcome the suggestion, but they might be interested in following the lead of a GAA referee in Galway last year, whose exploits were made famous when they were posted on Twitter by county hurling goalkeeper James Skehill…
Local man ref'd u12 game from his car on the hill in kilbeacanty,blew the horn for foul and indicator for direction #bestever #refstories
— James Skehill (@Jskehill01) June 5, 2013
Surely it’s worth a shot.
Hat-tip: Who Ate All the PiesAXA and ISM competition terms and conditions

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