Sadly, Paul Alcock has died at the age of 64 after a long battle with cancer. Paul lived in Maidstone and ran the Mall Chequers Centre for many years, raising a lot of money from there. He first joined the top ranks of refereeing in 1988 and complete 94 Premier League matches between 1995-2000. At 47 years old he retired from the top ranks and assessed and mentored budding refs.
The PGMOL chairman, Mike Riley, spoke of Paul's distinguished career, whilst others mentioned his bravery while battling against cancer for two years.
Here is Paul's record in top refereeing
http://www.worldfootball.net/referee_summary/paul-alcock/
Paul Alcock is famous for his "comedy" coming to together with Paolo di Canio on September 26th 1998. Paul was reffing the Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal match when Paolo (for ever theatrical) and Nigel Winterburn had a coming together, which ended up with Paul showing Paolo a red card. Paolo got upset and pushed Paul in the chest causing him to fall over with a major stagger! They met later in the year and "had a good laugh about it". I wonder how many reds and yellows should have been shown during that incident??
http://int.search.mywebsearch.com/search/video.jhtml?id=XNxdm019YYgb&n=77edc526&pg=video&pn=1&ptb=308DCB58-2A13-42C4-993A-77A59B6C34C6&ptnrS=XNxdm019YYgb&qs=&searchfor=Paul+Alcock+referee&si=CJeTnrb1k7ECFZMctAodh14dkA&ss=sub&st=sb&tpr=sbt
Oh yes, Wednesday won 1-0 and Nigel looked like he was expecting another left hook!
In case you didn't know it is the anniversary of Bert (The Cat) Williams' birth today, one of our famous goalkeepers who played for Wolves and England 30 times. He was born in 1920 and died in 2014. More on Bert tomorrow.
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