Referee claims the headlines
If the sign of a strong refereeing performance is anonymity, Stuart Attwell posted one of the worst Elland Road has seen in months. The man in the middle began promisingly and quickly fell off a cliff as common sense abandoned him.
What had started to look like a tight leash on the game, with some early ground rules, descended into a bitty, pathetic, stop-start clash which saw the whistle in Attwell’s mouth more often than boots on the ball. The match degenerated into 90-second bursts of football interspersed with opportunities for Attwell to tick players off.
