Referee Wherry has had enough
TOP local referee Colin Wherry has been fined and banned for making critical Facebook comments about the visiting Naval Air Command side that contested the Malaya Cup in October.
The upshot is that Wherry, 49, a level-five referee and one of the island's most respected referees, is to quit and hang up his whistle with immediate effect after being found guilty by the GFA on two charges.
He has been requested to pay a £125 fine and was suspended for five games from the first week of December.
Another top 'whistler', Colin Gontier, has quit in support of Wherry, who ran the line in the Malaya Cup game when the visitors had one player red-carded and were responsible for the majority of seven yellows also shown by referee James Falla.
Wherry subsequently went on Facebook to criticise the visitors' behaviour and did not hold back with his views, saying that it had been 'appalling'.
He added: 'These players are representing the Monarch and I shudder to think what any of the Royal Family would have felt like watching today's game........very ashamed I guess?
'So guys, take a look at your privileged position in life.
He also suggested that the visitors were taking advantage of local hospitality during what is the traditional Charybdis weekend.
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