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Originally Posted by Morecambe_Red
It really should have been abandoned from the sound of it. I think they said each club could provide a liner but each liner was rejected by both the clubs. Surely they could have had the Crewe volunteer covering the Accy forwards and the Accy liner covering the Crewe forwards. Probably be plenty of offside decisions but less of a farce than one liner.
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According to the Crewe side of the story, Crewe accepted Jimmy Bell's son as a linesman but he then backtracked and said he wasn't comfortable running the line. A Crewe fan was qualified to run the line but Accrington didn't agree to that.
However, Dave Artell was adamant he wanted to complete the game for the sake of his team and the travelling fans.
So the FA were called in to rule and the rules were found. Strange rules though - I am sure in the 70 minutes it took they could have found a local referee.