Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Manchester FA referee appointments secretary suspended for anti-semitic comment

The Manchester Evening News reports:

A referees' boss has been suspended after being found guilty by an FA panel of making a sick jibe about the Holocaust before a Jewish league match.

Phil Morris, referee appointments secretary at the Manchester FA, was disciplined over comments he was said to have made in a dressing room at Manchester United’s Carrington complex.

He reportedly told a ref who was due to oversee the Jewish league game: “Tell them to remember the concentration camps if they give you any ****."

The alleged remark was overheard by a teenage Jewish official, who was left deeply distressed and told his parents.

A formal complaint was made to the Manchester FA. They passed it to the association’s top brass in London who sent a four-man delegation to investigate.

A hearing was held in Manchester on Friday. Morris, from Levenshulme, was found guilty of using ‘abusive and/or insulting words, aggravated by race’...

Morris, himself a former referee, is himself involved in disciplinary hearings when amateur players from various Greater Manchester leagues appeal against red-card offences.

What a disgusting man.

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