Leo Callaghan
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Leo Callaghan | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Leo Callaghan | |
Date of birth | February 5, 1924 | |
Place of birth | Merthyr Tydfil, Wales | |
Date of death | January 8, 1987 (aged 62) | |
Place of death | Wales | |
Domestic | ||
Years | League | Role |
1954–1971 | Football League | Referee |
International | ||
1954–1971 | FIFA listed | Referee |
Leo Callaghan (born February 5, 1924, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales; died January 8, 1987, Wales[1]) was an association football referee in the English Football League. He was also a Welsh FIFA referee.
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[edit] Career
Callaghan made the Football League referees list in 1954 at the age of thirty, and went on to have a seventeen year career at this level. His greatest domestic honour came when he took charge of the 1968 FA Cup Final between West Bromwich Albion and Everton at Wembley. He is one of only three Welshmen to referee the Final (the others being Mervyn Griffiths and Clive Thomas).
He was also an international referee. This included two Group matches as linesman and one Group C match as referee (between Portugal and Hungary) at the 1966 World Cup Finals in England,[2] as well as six matches in eleven years involving England in Home Internationals,[3] and in European competitions, such as the 1968 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying rounds. On June 11, 1967 he took charge of Sweden versus Bulgaria in the Råsunda Stadium, Solna, in that competition.[4] As regards club competitions, Callaghan was in charge of, for example, Atlético Madrid against FK Vojvodina in their second round second leg tie in the European Cup on December 14, 1966 at the Estadio del Manzanares, when the two-leg scores tied at 3–3, and the result had to be decided by a tie-break match a week later.[5]
An extraordinary event occurred on November 12, 1970. Whilst refereeing a Football League Second Division match between Millwall and Sheffield United, the city of London was engulfed by "[t]orrential rain", causing the "abandonment of [the] game after 25 minutes by ... Callaghan ...".[6]
He retired from the League list in 1971. He later became a Football League assessor.
[edit] References
[edit] Print
- Football League Handbooks, 1954-1970
- Rothmans Football Yearbooks, 1970-1971.
- Freddi, Cris (1998) The Complete History Of the World Cup, Collins Willow.
- Ionescu, Romeo (2003) The Complete Results & Line-Ups of the European Fairs Cup 1955-1971, Soccer Books Limited.
- Ionescu, Romeo (2003) The Complete Results & Line-Ups of the European Football Championships 1958-2003, Soccer Books Limited.
- Ionescu, Romeo (2004) The Complete Results & Line-Ups of the European Champions Clubs’ Cup 1955-1991, Soccer Books Limited.
- Ionescu, Romeo (2004) The Complete Results & Line-Ups of the European Cup Winners Cup 1960-1999, Soccer Books Limited.
- Ionescu, Romeo (2004) The Complete Results & Line-Ups of the UEFA Cup 1971-1991, Soccer Books Limited.
- Elleray, David (2004) The Man In the Middle, Time Warner, p49-50 (reference to role as an assessor)
[edit] Internet
- ^ Dates of birth and death: zerozero.eu website. Retrieved on March 25, 2008.
- ^ Portugal v. Hungary, Group C, 1966 World Cup Finals: PlanetWorldCup.com website. Retrieved on March 25, 2008.
- ^ England matches refereed (Home Internationals series): TheFA.com website. Retrieved on March 25, 2008.
- ^ Sweden v. Bulgaria, 1968 European Championships, qualifying (1967): rsssf.com statistical website. Retrieved on March 25, 2008.
- ^ Atlético Madrid v. Vojvodina, 2nd round 2nd leg, European Cup, 1966: Linguasport.com website. Retrieved on March 26, 2008.
- ^ Match abandoned due to "torrential rain", Millwall v. Sheff. Utd., 1970: Bob Dunning's "Thirty Years Ago" feature. Retrieved on March 25, 2008.
Preceded by Ken Dagnall |
FA Cup Final Referee 1968 |
Succeeded by George McCabe |