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Referee Neil Hair limped off in the 22nd minute and was replaced in the middle by fourth official Alan Clayton.
Mr Clayton was injured at half-time and the interval lasted over an hour while both sides discussed how to go forward as neither of the injured officials could run the line and anyone qualified in the crowd had a bias to a particular side.
The second half ended up kicking off at 17: 10 GMT, with the agreement of both managers John Coleman and Dave Artell, with assistant referee Danny Gratton taking over as referee and just one assistant Conor Brown.
It was decided on the toss of a coin which side he would officiate on, which was the Crewe half, while Mr Clayton went back to fourth official.
I understand that several calls were made to the FA to try and resolve. I've never heard of managers objecting to a qualified referee from the crowd before.
Assuming any voulunteers WERE qualified I bet they were pretty miffed at being accused of potential bias - I'm sure we could all (or most anyway) referee or AR 'our' clubs without bias if we ever had to.
Mr Clayton was injured at half-time and the interval lasted over an hour while both sides discussed how to go forward as neither of the injured officials could run the line and anyone qualified in the crowd had a bias to a particular side.
The second half ended up kicking off at 17: 10 GMT, with the agreement of both managers John Coleman and Dave Artell, with assistant referee Danny Gratton taking over as referee and just one assistant Conor Brown.
It was decided on the toss of a coin which side he would officiate on, which was the Crewe half, while Mr Clayton went back to fourth official.
I understand that several calls were made to the FA to try and resolve. I've never heard of managers objecting to a qualified referee from the crowd before.
Assuming any voulunteers WERE qualified I bet they were pretty miffed at being accused of potential bias - I'm sure we could all (or most anyway) referee or AR 'our' clubs without bias if we ever had to.