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Conference 7.286::sports_90

Title:OURGNG::SPORTS - Digital's daily tabloid
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Created:Thu Dec 14 1989
Last Modified:Fri Dec 17 1993
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:438
Total number of notes:50420

402.0. "It's not easy being a referee..." by KAOFS::WATTERS () Wed Oct 31 1990 13:31

This from the Ottawa Sun Newspaper (Sport Section):

	Hooker hired for referees

PARIS (UPI) - A top French soccer team, saying "you have to look
after your guests properly," hired prostitutes to entertain referees
after games.
	Claude Bez, chairman of Bordeaux of the French First Division,
said yesterday his club has paid for the women to be brought from Paris
to spend the night with the game officials.
	"It happens everywhere," he told L'Equipe sports daily yesterday.
	Bez said in the article he paid Ljubo Barin, a Yugoslav agent,
to look after referees and linesmen at a half dozen European Cup games
in the late 1980s.
	"Referees are only men and Barin knew how to give them a good
time," Bez said. "All the expenses were accounted for and I explained
the figures to the tax people. All they said was that it was not tax
deductible."
	Bordeaux is currently under investigation for $4M in alleged
financial wrongdoing.

Andy
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402.1MCIS1::DHAMELA well-turned trick is a treatWed Oct 31 1990 13:385
    
    Someone claiming they were screwed by the REFS is nothing new.
    
    Dickster
    
402.2AXIS::ROBICHAUDI'm Crazy Mad!Wed Oct 31 1990 15:591
    HaHa, good one Dickster.  Any openings for REFS in France?
402.3refs that .... together, stay together!!SHIRE::FINEUC1Thu Nov 01 1990 06:2112
Jeepers, that one was nearly as good as the one about Italian women being 
beaten up.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the clubs are sponsoring extra-curricular
activities, but I doubt that the Chairmen are telling the papers about it!
Come on, Customers is one thing, Referees is another!!    :^{).

BTW, PJ, I'd like the stats on the number of Italian men hammered by their
wives!!   :^{)

rick ellis
402.4FRAGLE::WASKOMThu Nov 01 1990 09:526
    Well, at least now I know what it takes to get a fair game called when
    our kids play :-}.
    
    Now, I wonder if I should volunteer...............
    
    A&W
402.5Dr. Ruth says, "Bad sex is better than no sex at all!"SASE::SZABOThe Beer HunterThu Nov 01 1990 10:105
    
    My vote says, go for it A&W!  But of course, if you volunteer, then
    volunteer safely!  :-)
    
    Hawk
402.6#1 pick is a tight endMCIS1::DHAMELI just gotta be white and dieThu Nov 01 1990 10:187
    
    Just remember:  Holding and backfield in motion are *good* things in
    this game.   And it's important that the passer be protected and
    the receiver covered.
    
Dickster
    
402.7#2 pick is a "wide receiver"SHALOT::HUNTNo. 1 Ranked Virginia CavaliersThu Nov 01 1990 11:459
    Don't forget that ...
    
    	"It's a game of inches" ...
    
    Bob Hunt
    
    P.S.  "Encroachment" penalties are okay but "false starts" are a
          definite no-no.   And keep the kids outta sight or there'll be
          too many "pass interference" calls.
402.8WMOIS::RIEU_DRead his lips...Know new taxes!Thu Nov 01 1990 12:152
       Isn't hiring a hooker 'illegal procedure'?
                                       Denny
402.9CAM::WAYBeaten like a redheaded stepchild...Thu Nov 01 1990 12:267
�       Isn't hiring a hooker 'illegal procedure'?

No, Denny, not if you're engaged in rugby league.  Course union might
look at that somewhat harshly...

But remember, don't get her pissed at you or you might be guilty
of "icing".
402.10refereesKAOA01::JTURNERMon Dec 03 1990 09:3818
    Here's a little note about a situation at an OHL hockey game
    I was at.(Ottawa 67's, coach=Brian Kilrea).
    
    I was sitting behind our home teams bench, and things were not	
    going too good for our side, no calls, other team getting away
    with everything...when finally the coach for the 67's, Kilrea,
    yells out at the ref: "hey ref"; ref:"ya killer"(coach's nickname);
    Coach: "Can you get a penalty for thinking?"; ref: "No",
    Coach  "Well, I think you're a $#$#$%@ asshole"
    Ref:  (just smiled and skated away)
    
    
    Thought it was rather funny myself, as did the ref.
    
    
    
    								Jim