I wouldn't label Retford as thugs either but the elbow from Ellender was there for everybody to see, plain as day. Just how the man who should be catching these incidents did not see it beggars belief but he should have known he had dropped a big one when Churchhad to go off a couple of minutes later.
A truly poor performance from the referee who I would think will get away with it as I doubt there was an assessor present at this level.
Assessor was in the FI stand, often to be seen holding his head in his hands!!
Was this him?
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