Statistics for Famous Football Referees

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This quiz has been taken 26 times
The average score is 5 of 20

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Year	Memorable Moment	Referee	% Correct
2011	Pictured on Twitter in a Manchester United Shirt following another "favourable" decision	Howard Webb	73%
2006	Sending off Zinedine Zidane in his last ever game as a player	Horacio Elizondo	45%
2010	Disallowed Frank Lampard's equalizer despite the ball being at least a yard over the line	Jorge Larrionda	41%
2006	Sending off Josip Simunic after issuing him with his "THIRD" Yellow Card	Graham Poll	36%
1998	Sending off England's David Beckham against Argentina	Kim Milton Nielsen	32%
2010	Allowing an offside goal from Argentina to stand, despite the event being replayed on the stadium videowall which showed the goal to be offside	Roberto Rosetti	32%
2009	Turned down 4 Chelsea penalty appeals in Champions League semi final	Tom Henning Ovrebo	32%
2005	Accused by Jose Mourinho of receiving a half time visit from Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard	Anders Frisk	27%
1974	Awarding the first 2 World Cup Final penalties, the second of which was somewhat "controversial"	Jack Taylor	27%
1982	Not sending off Harald Schumacher for his mid-air assault on Patrick Battiston	Charles Corver	14%
1962	Refereed the "Battle of Santiago" between Chile & Italy	Ken Aston	14%
2008	Awarding a "Ghost Goal" to Reading following a mistaken flag from his assistant.	Stuart Attwell	14%
2004	Disallowed Sol Campbell's last minute goal leading to England being eliminated on penalties	Urs Meier	14%
1986	Being one of only three people in the stadium not to see Maradona's "Hand of God" goal	Ali Bin Nasser	9%
2000	Being hounded by several Manchester United players after awarding Middlesbrough a penalty at Old Trafford	Andy D'Urso	9%
1966	Having a conversation with Linesman Tofiq Bahramov	Gottfried Dienst	9%
1998	Sending of Paulo Di Canio and being pushed over by the player as a result	Paul Alcock	9%
1978	Blowing the full time whistle milliseconds before Zico's header crossed the line	Clive Thomas	5%
1993	Cost England manager Graham Taylor his job	Karl-Josef Assenmacher	5%
1999	Attempting a backheel and falling over in the process	Stephen Lodge	5%