Referee Tears Up After Final Match of Career

[biffnix]

Saw this on reddit, and I gotta admit it got to me...

 

[MattyontheWhistle]

Poor fella, his last game and they only gave him one AR???

 

[Philip Burrows]

Personally if I was a pro ref on my last game I'd get the match ball after the game and take a penalty and celebrate.

 

[MattyontheWhistle]

Personally if I was a pro ref on my last game I'd get the match ball after the game and take a penalty and celebrate.

I'd probably miss it!

 

[Dommer OFK]

The Dutch Cup Final in 2010 was switched from a one-off game to a two-legged one by the Dutch FA due to issues of fan trouble between Ajax and Feyenoord.

Ajax won the final with a 6–1 on aggregate, winning their record 18th title.

It was also the last game refereed by Roelof Luinge - who had taken over 740 games in a 27 year career in the top divisions of Dutch Football.

So the Dutch FA let this happen after 89 minutes - which I thought was superb

 

[Phil]

In any normal job if you had worked there for 27 years you would get a good send off, fair play to the Dutch FA a nice touch.