Tekel Towers » Remember Mike McCurry?

Tek · 02/6/2015 1:04 am

Yes THAT Mike McCurry.The referee.

The referee who was forced to take early retirement after the most blatant display of cheating i've ever seen on a football pitch as we were beaten 3-1 at Ibrox in 2008.

Well this Saturday at 3pm Mike's not 'officiating' a fitba match.No,instead Mike's appearing at something in George Square,Glasgow called 'OrangeFest'.It's ran by the Orange Order.

And yet there are still Utd supporters out there who think corruption doesn't exist in Scottish football and the refs are just 'a bit shit'.

Tek · 02/6/2015 1:06 am

LOL

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TheShed · 02/6/2015 7:08 am

Tek wrote:
Yes THAT Mike McCurry.The referee.

The referee who was forced to take early retirement after the most blatant display of cheating i've ever seen on a football pitch as we were beaten 3-1 at Ibrox in 2008.

Well this Saturday at 3pm Mike's not 'officiating' a fitba match.No,instead Mike's appearing at something in George Square,Glasgow called 'OrangeFest'.It's ran by the Orange Order.

And yet there are still Utd supporters out there who think corruption doesn't exist in Scottish football and the refs are just 'a bit shit'.

Not even surprised.

If anyone still believes every refereeing decision that they get wrong is an honest mistake then they are seriously deluded. I'm not saying everyone of them is dishonest but some are. I've been given examples of dishonest calls direct from retired referees who were involved in games they happened in so please no 'paranoia' talk.

The standard of refereeing in Scotland is the biggest problem in the game IMO, people keep going on about the price, the lack of quality, the match day experience, no one at football clubs talks about getting better referees. Even the honest ones are very very poor.

My match day experience would be a lot better if the game was referred by the laws of the game and not by the laws of what suits the referee.

SlatefordArab · 02/6/2015 10:12 am

That game was the most blatant display of out-and-out cheating I've ever seen from a ref.

kiwiarab · 02/6/2015 12:08 pm

I agree with Slateford word for word.

That game was a weird one for me, I was on way from New Zealand to Scotland for a holiday, at Heathrow airport we had a drink and watched scores on vidi printer so had no idea what was happening. Got to Glasgow Airport and my dad was telling me "they lost 3-1 and got denied a stonewall penalty", all I could say was "aye, that's ibrox for you". Saw the highlights later and wasn't sure if I should laugh or cry, it was the worst ever.

The worst decisions I have seen in my time following United:

- paul sturrock disallowed goal in league cup final (before my time but arguably cost us a trophy)
- iain ferguson disallowed goal in 1987 final - from memory gallacher wasn't interfering with play and was knocked over into an offside position and then over the goal line by an opponent
- hamish french disallowed goal in 1991 final - from memory a united player (jackson) was in an offside position but nowhere near the ball and didn't interfere with play
- firhill disallowed goal - WTF
- christian dailly no penalty at ibrox - blatant cheating
- david hannah no penalty in 1994 final - I think the ref gave a free kick to rangers!
- forget the referee but game at tannadice v sheep when jim paterson broke his leg for second time, lying there in agony while ref waves play on and tells him to get up, both sets of players look shocked and eventually put the ball out anyway
- the alan freeland game at easter road - blatant cheating
- mark wilson red card for heading the ball at dens - think that was freeland as well
- hugh dallas against celtic at tannadice. denying us a stonewall penalty for a foul on stuart duff after he had stunned the whole of tannadice by skinning a defender. Later he went to give a Celtic player a yellow card before realising he'd have to send him off and putting the card back in his pocket
- rangers 3 penalties and red cards game

however, that mccurry game was the most blatant cheating ever. There was nothing united could do to get a result that day, stonewall penalty and red card ignored, stonewall sending off for the rangers player who headbutted wilkie ignored, and an own goal disallowed for offside. it's not funny, it's everything that's wrong with scottish football. I can only imagine the reaction of him and dallas in 2012 when they went bust and all the comedy over the last 3 years.

Foo Kin Twat · 02/6/2015 12:19 pm

Kalvenes stonewall penalty (that if course wasn't) in the Mark Kerr League Cup Final.

Just before the above Aye Brokes game and alluded to by CL in the interview.

It's scary when you see them listed as you've so kindly done Kiwi. Even getting 50% in our favour would have meant a few trophies more and less of a Final Hurdle.

Hamiltonarab · 02/6/2015 12:43 pm

Think the David Hannah one in '94 final you refer to was Alec Cleland Kiwi.

Always said we should try and compile a massive list of these incidents and also a compilation of all video footage if it exists to show up the dodgy questionable stuff and also the stuff that is just down to sheer incompetence.

I had completely forgot about Alan Freeland until his name was mentioned there. Think he goes down as totally useless rather than anything else.

lifesanocean · 02/6/2015 12:57 pm

Dougie McDonald vs Der ex-Hun 2010 both home and away. Gives them two(?) soft penalties in the away game then denies us one stonewaller (Lafferty handball) and one probably (Whittaker blatant push on Kenneth) as well as disallowing Goodies goal in the home game. Even when the goal went in, you could tell everyone stopped waiting for him to disallow it.

Add in the Celtic game the year after (changing his mind on a Celtic penalty). Houstie called it right. Whislt Celtic were whinging conspiracy, Houstie said McDonald couldn't wait to give a penalty against us.

7-1 League Cup semi where Marvin Andrews handles on the line at 2-1. That goes in we'd have won that game.

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lifesanocean · 02/6/2015 2:52 pm

kiwiarab wrote:
I agree with Slateford word for word.

That game was a weird one for me, I was on way from New Zealand to Scotland for a holiday, at Heathrow airport we had a drink and watched scores on vidi printer so had no idea what was happening. Got to Glasgow Airport and my dad was telling me "they lost 3-1 and got denied a stonewall penalty", all I could say was "aye, that's ibrox for you". Saw the highlights later and wasn't sure if I should laugh or cry, it was the worst ever.

The worst decisions I have seen in my time following United:

- paul sturrock disallowed goal in league cup final (before my time but arguably cost us a trophy)
- iain ferguson disallowed goal in 1987 final - from memory gallacher wasn't interfering with play and was knocked over into an offside position and then over the goal line by an opponent
- hamish french disallowed goal in 1991 final - from memory a united player (jackson) was in an offside position but nowhere near the ball and didn't interfere with play
- firhill disallowed goal - WTF
- christian dailly no penalty at ibrox - blatant cheating
- david hannah no penalty in 1994 final - I think the ref gave a free kick to rangers!
- forget the referee but game at tannadice v sheep when jim paterson broke his leg for second time, lying there in agony while ref waves play on and tells him to get up, both sets of players look shocked and eventually put the ball out anyway
- the alan freeland game at easter road - blatant cheating
- mark wilson red card for heading the ball at dens - think that was freeland as well
- hugh dallas against celtic at tannadice. denying us a stonewall penalty for a foul on stuart duff after he had stunned the whole of tannadice by skinning a defender. Later he went to give a Celtic player a yellow card before realising he'd have to send him off and putting the card back in his pocket
- rangers 3 penalties and red cards game

however, that mccurry game was the most blatant cheating ever. There was nothing united could do to get a result that day, stonewall penalty and red card ignored, stonewall sending off for the rangers player who headbutted wilkie ignored, and an own goal disallowed for offside. it's not funny, it's everything that's wrong with scottish football. I can only imagine the reaction of him and dallas in 2012 when they went bust and all the comedy over the last 3 years.

Broadfoot also swung a punch at Noel Hunt off the ball as well in the McCurry game and was caught on camera.

huntedbyafreak · 02/6/2015 4:37 pm

Cousin heidered Wilkie as well in that game

lifesanocean · 02/6/2015 6:43 pm

I wished death upon Rangers that day. Who says wishes don't come true?

kiwiarab · 02/6/2015 8:22 pm

you are correct it was cleland, I could have sworn it was Hannah. 17:00 minutes in, brilliant counter attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi5jCDN58kM

PatReilly · 02/6/2015 8:47 pm

See in all this stuff: I don't condemn McCurry, the Orange Lodge and all that sails in them, with regard to being bigots.

But the Councils that allow these folk to march up and down the highways, disrupting ordinary folk like me, legitimising extremist anti other human being behaviour, that gets me. It’s allowed by councils, because politicians see it as a vote winner (or loser if they deny these historic remnants a chance to peacock themselves).

Typed enough already, apart from this: if you and I and one thousand nine hundred and eighty one others wanted to dress up in paramilitary style toy soldier garb and bang drums while playing woodwind instruments in ‘celebration’ of Jim MacLean on a major High Street somewhere in Scotland, would that be accepted by any council’s licensing authority?

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huntedbyafreak · 02/6/2015 9:42 pm

Think you know the answer to that Pat.

Arabnophobia · 02/6/2015 10:19 pm

SlatefordArab wrote:
That game was the most blatant display of out-and-out cheating I've ever seen from a ref.

It was for me too mate for sure.

Craig Levein's after match interview...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B0xHWIw_dPk

Would have loved McCurry to have walked by during that interview. Sure CL would have rattled the cunt.

At the same time he was cheating off the pitch according to this...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/randy-referee-mike-mccurry-made-978071

She said: "He was like Uncle Michael to us and was always around."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/love-rat-referee-mike-mccurry-978094

huntedbyafreak · 02/6/2015 10:23 pm

Leveins rant at end of game means less to me now knowing that he jumped at opportunity to 'get in bed' with the SFA when he was offered the Scotland job

St Obswell · 07/6/2015 1:09 pm

Any footage of the honourable Mike McCurry in full voice from yesterday, there are still football fans i know who still can't quite believe this

huntedbyafreak · 07/6/2015 1:20 pm

He didn't show up apparently

doontheroadarab · 07/6/2015 1:24 pm

huntedbyafreak wrote:
He didn't show up apparently

Probably the only good decision he's made in his life