THIS BLOG WAS CREATED FROM THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC'S FORMATION

Scarborough Athletic F.C were formed on June 25th 2007 following the winding up order imposed on the old club after the local council turned down the club's survival plans. The club were finally forced into liquidation with debts of £2.5 million by a High Court judge, and so ended the club's magnificent 128 year history, no thoughts or consideration was to be spared for anyone connected with the club or the towns footballing public. However a trust had been formed and we were prepared for such a situation should it arise. The Seadog Trust applied to the Northern Counties East League to enter newly formed Scarborough Athletic and they were succesful in their application.
The new club are a continuation of the old one, they have the same kit, badge, motto etc and most importantly have kept a large number of the old supporters. This blog was started by me from the very beginnings of Scarborough Athletic FC and will follow the fortunes, both good and bad of the newly formed club as they try to get back to the higher levels of the football pyramid where they rightly belong. A rival team has also been formed 'Scarborough Town', I do not expect that particular club will have much of a future, but do they realise the damage that they are causing to the future success of football in the town, our town cannot support 2 teams, Athetic are here to stay, we are the town's number one football team and will return to the higher levels of the game in the next few seasons..


THIS BLOG WAS ESTABLISHED FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC AND WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE CLUB ON THEIR JOURNEY BACK TO THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE. I AM NOT HERE TO ADVERTISE OR MAKE MONEY FROM 3RD PARTY LISTINGS, I AM HERE TO SIMPLY FOLLOW THE CLUB AND TRY TO KEEP THIS BLOG AS INTERESTING AS POSSIBLE. COMMENTS ARE WELCOME.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

"WOMEN DON'T KNOW THE OFFSIDE RULE" According to Andy Gray.

SIAN MASSEY
I have to say something about the Sian Massey 'offside' decision. I watched the game on tv and the decision she made was excellent, to the untrained eye Raul Meireles may have looked offside as he ran through to set up Torres for a Liverpool goal, but for Gray and Keys to say the things they did was well out of order. I would imagine that 50% of the usual male linesmen would actually have wrongly given the decision as offside .I speak as someone who refereed for 6 years at local level and I know how difficult a job it is, both for referees and their assistants and the last thing they need is child-like idiots such as these two who could never do the job themselves.I would love to see Gray and Keys actually try to officiate a game and see how many mistakes the two of them make throughout the game.
  Every game of football will always have dubious decisions and mistakes will be made, last night I was at the Bridlington Town v Armthorpe game and one of the 'male' linesman (assistant) missed 2 obvious offsides and the crowd let him know vocally. Sian should have been officiating at Crewe last night but she stepped down because of the controversy surrounding the Wolves game, which in my opinion was wrong, she had a brilliant game at Wolves, did nothing wrong and the football world should be backing the 25 year old to the hilt. I hope she continues to get more Premiership games, she can hold her head high and I wish her all the best in her future performances.
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