The Mirror has reported how a Deaf football team lost all but one of their fixtures last season and conceded 127 goals – after not being able to hear the referees whistle during matches.
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A deaf football team ended a season on minus six points – because they could not hear the referee’s whistle.
Birmingham Deaf FC’s sequence of shocking results were among the worst in the city’s AFA Saturday League’s history.
They lost all but one of their 26 fixtures, shipped 164 goals and ended bottom of division five.
But the team, made up of profoundly deaf players – at least had a decent excuse.
The squad couldn’t hear the referee’s commands – and claimed their pleas for flags to be used instead were ignored, reports the Birmingham Mail.
Club secretary Guy Whieldon, who is deaf, said: “Most lads feel officials are not geared-up for a deaf team due to communication breakdowns, which cause difficulty.
“The referees are supposed to wave flags while, at the same time, blowing a whistle.
“Most referees forget to wave or simply don’t want to use a flag.”
Read more here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/deaf-football-team-concede-164-3608862#ixzz32pUqe2cB
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Cathy Alexander
May 30, 2014
How is it that referees can be so darn ignorant when they know perfectly well that a simple thing, such as waving a flag solves the communication problem, at a glance?!
This really is a case of discrimination and whoever is in charge should pull out all the stops to take referees or companies to court under: The Equality Act 2010. This would soon pull them up pretty sharpish!!! There is simply no room for such ignorant laziness in this day and age!