A GUERNSEY referee could be in difficulties after the post under-16 ‘Upton’ row took another turn.

Ian Drillot (pictured), widely recognised as a top island official, passed up the opportunity to be a referee’s assistant in the Kleinwort Benson Muratti Vase final at Springfield, unhappy that Jersey’s football authorities had done nothing after he came in for criticism from First Tower under-16 manager and former Muratti striker, Simon Petulla.

Petulla criticised the standard of Guernsey refereeing following his team’s 3-1 defeat by North, which had six players cautioned while Tower had one sent off for head-butting an opponent.

The Tower boss told the Jersey Evening Post following the game that the Guernsey officials were ‘terrible’ and ‘unbelievably biased’ towards their team.

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