A Howard Webb Of Deceit

When the Three Card Poll pocketed his whistle and sulked off back to Tring, there was an inevitability that the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) would promote someone else to continue the man's projects. Police sergeant Howard Webb was the man on the square, so to speak.
Just as we had a problem with Poll so we do with Sgt Webb - they share many inappropriate attributes - but, whereas Poll was enigmatic in his influence upon match outcomes, Webb conforms to a range of particular templates.

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