Video highlights: Crystal Palace v Brighton - Five Penalties in a Game (1989)

[hans kraay fan club]

I was also there, and my memory is that the ref was a class A cock. And rightly so. We're SUPPOSED to be biased.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

and having now watched it back - he's STILL a prick.

Granted at least 2 of the pens were definite, but the first was for nothing, and the handball was harsh. More to the point though, he's one of those refs that make you DEMAND that you hate them, by clearly loving being centre of attention. "Look at ME, look at ME. Look at the way I FLOURISH my yellow cards, with a DRAMATIC flick of the wrist" And he has UTTERLY shit hair. And clearly all his FAMILY hated him. Or they would have told him how shit his HAIR looked. The TWAT.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

As an aside, Curbishley and Trusson must be the slowest CM partnership in the history of world football.

 

[Simster]

and having now watched it back - he's STILL a prick.

Granted at least 2 of the pens were definite, but the first was for nothing, and the handball was harsh. More to the point though, he's one of those refs that make you DEMAND that you hate them, by clearly loving being centre of attention. "Look at ME, look at ME. Look at the way I FLOURISH my yellow cards, with a DRAMATIC flick of the wrist" And he has UTTERLY shit hair. And clearly all his FAMILY hated him. Or they would have told him how shit his HAIR looked. The TWAT.

Plus the way he KNOWS he's made a controversial decision by pointing to the spot and then running 100m in 11 seconds TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

Wanker.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Indeed. Wanker.

 

[little al]

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[Martinf]

Was at the game and had forgotten that Curbs fluffed that easy chance to make it 2-2.

Grrrr

I reckon Kelvin had a bad day at the office

Remember waiting outside Selhurst and being called "scum" by a fat Palace fan.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I have now removed the repeating few seconds in the video edit - footage link is now at http://www.viddler.com/explore/seagullstv/videos/23/

 

[Gwylan]

and having now watched it back - he's STILL a prick.

Granted at least 2 of the pens were definite, but the first was for nothing...

I think you're wearing your Albion glasses there. We'd still be moaning about that now if Gary O'Reilly had grabbed Nelson like that. I thought that was the most blatant of the lot.

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

As a young lad on the away terrace I remember a bloke tripping up and falling over at half time with some loon shouting out penalty, to much hilarity.

Remember following Kelvin Morton in football mag 'Match stats' after that game and pretty much every game he reffed had at least 1 penalty and notable sending offs. This in the days when refs were not brandishing cards willy-nilly. The bloke was an arse.

 

[ArfurW8]

Remember waiting outside Selhurst and being called "scum" by a fat Palace fan.

That was me !

I have lost a bit of weight since then though.

 

[vulture]

all palace 4 were pens ours was not lol

 

[rcf0712]

and having now watched it back - he's STILL a prick.

Granted at least 2 of the pens were definite, but the first was for nothing, and the handball was harsh. More to the point though, he's one of those refs that make you DEMAND that you hate them, by clearly loving being centre of attention. "Look at ME, look at ME. Look at the way I FLOURISH my yellow cards, with a DRAMATIC flick of the wrist" And he has UTTERLY shit hair. And clearly all his FAMILY hated him. Or they would have told him how shit his HAIR looked. The TWAT.

 

[rcf0712]

As a young lad on the away terrace I remember a bloke tripping up and falling over at half time with some loon shouting out penalty, to much hilarity.

Remember following Kelvin Morton in football mag 'Match stats' after that game and pretty much every game he reffed had at least 1 penalty and notable sending offs. This in the days when refs were not brandishing cards willy-nilly. The bloke was an arse.

my point exactly, this game was unfortunately not a one off for that idiot......

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Remember that game well. We were belting out ironic 'PENALTY!' shouts whenever anything happened on the half-way line. What a match.

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[eastlondonseagull]

Ian Wright's goal was awesome, though.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Wasn't this also the game where a Palace fan nearby (over to our right at the near end of the main stand) goaded us from the top of the stairs for what seemed like hours before a copper emerged behind him, stood there drinking in the moment and then nabbing him to much mirth from us Seagulls.

 

[hart's shirt]

I knew Kelvin Morton pretty well at one stage - his son was in the class I taught in Culford Prep School, just outside Bury St Edmunds.

After finishing refereeing in the mid 1990s, Kelvin became a referee's assessor and travelled to Premiership games across the country. I went with him as a guest to Leicester v Derby in the late '90s when a young Paul Durkin was officiating - on the way there, I had the chance while travelling to ask him about the Palace v Brighton 5 penalty game.

He'd had the chance to consider about every penalty decision in that game - it was certainly one of the more eventful ones in his career. He went through all of the five penalties giving the reasons why he gave them at the time. It wasn't a case of formulating a supporting case after the event - Kelvin was a decent, honest bloke. He gave them as he saw them.

Were they all correct? For me, no - the first was harsh. But he did show the Albion some mercy by allowing Wilkins to stay on the field after a shockingly late tackle.

Not expecting this to help Albion fans get closure on this (highly unlikely as it was Palace after all), but I felt it was worth posting just because I knew the guy.

 

[Selhurst Wonderland]

I was at this game. Thoroughly bizarre.
I also remember dreading seeing Morton's name on the programme and feeling a sense of dread.
Looking at those pens again though, I think he got them spot on, pretty much anyway.

 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

reminds me of the days at school when hacking was allowed during Wembley Pairs.

Wow....flashback.....those were the days....using a tennis ball in the playground....running around kicking lumps out of each other. Nowadays they're probably using knives!