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McCURRY CONSIDERED QUITTING – SADLY HE CHANGED HIS MIND
By Trialist
Rank-rotten referee Mike McCurry has revealed he considered retiring from refereeing when he was the centre of controversy after his now infamous performance in the Huns v Celtic match at Ipox back in October.
The Huns won 3-0 that day, but McCurry, who has been called the Vicar Of Dobley by justifiably disgruntled Celtic fans, managed to yellow card 9 Celtic players, many for innocuous infringements.
In contrast, the woeful whistler only cautioned two Huns during the October derby, as a result of which McCurry was accused of applying different standards to the two tribes.
Indeed, many in Timdom criticised McCurry vehemently for not red-carding or even yellow-carding Alan Mutton for a two-footed lunge at Aiden McGeady, which forced the young Celt to leap out of the way to avoid serious injury. McCurry, in fact, awarded Rangers a throw-in after the potentially career-threatening assault.
With Timdom fuming about his dire display that day at Ipox, McCurry explained his performance was given a high mark by his SFA referee supervisor, which comes as no surprise whatsoever.
McCurry said: “The word excellent was actually used in his report. But the reaction from elsewhere left me to conclude that handling the O** F*** game had become as close as it is possible to get in this world to an impossible task.”
McCurry moaned: “In my case, I became the centre of allegations that I was anti-Celtic because of the number of bookings I'd given out to their players.”
McCurry continued: “What happened next was a Bebo web page was opened up in my name and threats of physical violence were made, which I had to report to Strathclyde Police and the SFA.”
Whoever did that was totally out of order.
McCurry added: “It was at that point I considered quitting the game because I thought, ‘What's the point?'”
If we'd known, we'd have organised a collection to buy McCurry a watch as a retirement gift.
Sadly, no happy ending, as the referee said: “That made me decide to carry on for the good of the young referees coming after me.”
God Almighty, there are more Mike McCurry's in the SFA pipeline. They must clone them from bits of Pooh Dallas and Booby Tait.
We sincerely hope the Reverend Mike McCurry is better at his Sunday job than he is at his Saturday one.
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